All data represent tickets distributed estimates by WrestleTix.

AEW: same-market, same-event type comparisons for February 2025

-13% on 2/11/2025 in Cedar Park, TX for Dynamite: 2,828 (from 3,246 on 2/14/2024)
-44% on 2/19/2025 in Phoenix, AZ for Dynamite: 2,933 (from 5,248 on 2/7/2024)

WWE: same-market, same-event type comparisons for February 2025

+421% on 2/1/2025 in Indianapolis, IN for PPV: 67,843 (from 13,022 on 10/7/2023)
+32% on 2/3/2025 in Cleveland, OH for Raw: 12,648 (from 9,552 on 12/11/2023)
-28% on 2/7/2025 in Memphis, TN for Smackdown: 8,901 (from 12,435 on 3/15/2024)
+17% on 2/10/2025 in Nashville, TN for Raw: 12,356 (from 10,521 on 11/27/2023)
-7% on 2/14/2025 in Washington, DC for Smackdown: 12,789 (from 13,707 on 8/23/2024)
+76% on 2/17/2025 in Charlotte, NC for Raw: 14,616 (from 8,299 on 9/4/2023)
+20% on 2/21/2025 in New Orleans, LA for Smackdown: 9,837 (from 8,200 on 7/28/2023)
+61% on 2/24/2025 in Cincinnati, OH for Raw: 12,286 (from 7,608 on 1/16/2023)
-30% on 2/28/2025 in Toronto, ON for Smackdown: 11,905 (from 16,980 on 7/5/2024)

Methodology

“Same-market, same-event type comparison” here means we’re looking at the estimated tickets distributed and comparing that number against the last time the same event type was in that market.

This is the most meaningful way I’ve found to assess live event business. It allows us to avoid problems with comparing different markets to one another (e.g., New York, NY tends to have bigger crowds than Huntsville, AL) and different event types (e.g., PPVs draw better than Raw or Smackdown, which draw better than house shows).

Note that a small number of events did not have ticket maps available and therefore WrestleTix did not provide an estimate for those events.

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