AEW, WWE live events market-to-market comparisons for July & August 2025

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All data represent tickets distributed estimates by WrestleTix.

Note: AEW in this period has started more frequently running multiple events at the same venue consecutively, which complicates our usual market-to-market analysis.

AEW: same-market, same-event type comparisons

• +47% on 7/2/2025 in Ontario, CA for Dynamite: 5,057 (from 3,429 on 11/15/2023)
• -50% on 7/9/2025 in Garland, TX for Dynamite: 2,497 (from 4,978 on 12/14/2022)
• -30% on 7/10/2025 in Garland, TX for Collision: 2,190 (from 3,108 on 12/16/2023)
• -75% on 7/16/2025 in Chicago, IL for Dynamite: 1,194 (from 4,709 on 11/27/2024)
• -76% on 7/17/2025 in Chicago, IL for Collision: 1,059 (from 4,493 on 9/2/2023)
• 0% on 7/23/2025 in Chicago, IL for Dynamite: 1,194 (from 1,194 on 7/16/2025)
• +8% on 7/26/2025 in Chicago, IL for Collision: 1,144 (from 1,059 on 7/17/2025)
• 0% on 7/30/2025 in Chicago, IL for Dynamite: 1,194 (from 1,194 on 7/23/2025)
• +4% on 7/31/2025 in Chicago, IL for Collision: 1,194 (from 1,144 on 7/26/2025)
• -17% on 8/6/2025 in Cleveland, OH for Dynamite: 3,049 (from 3,681 on 10/30/2024)
• -10% on 8/13/2025 in Cincinnati, OH for Dynamite: 1,418 (from 1,570 on 1/15/2025)
• -2% on 8/14/2025 in Cincinnati, OH for Collision: 1,380 (from 1,410 on 1/16/2025)
• -67% on 8/24/2025 in London, UK for PPV: 17,709 (from 53,922 on 8/25/2024)
• -84% on 8/27/2025 in Philadelphia, PA for Dynamite: 916 (from 5,673 on 10/25/2023)
• -68% on 8/30/2025 in Philadelphia, PA for Collision: 913 (from 2,842 on 11/2/2024)

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

• -3% on 7/7/2025 in Providence, RI for Raw: 8,938 (from 9,237 on 8/26/2024)
• +2% on 7/11/2025 in Nashville, TN for Smackdown: 10,320 (from 10,081 on 10/4/2024)
• -45% on 7/13/2025 in Atlanta, GA for PPV: 8,294 (from 14,957 on 10/5/2024)
• +41% on 7/14/2025 in Birmingham, AL for Raw: 10,327 (from 7,321 on 1/9/2023)
• +6% on 7/18/2025 in San Antonio, TX for Smackdown: 15,029 (from 14,149 on 10/20/2023)
• +80% on 7/19/2025 in Corpus Christi, TX for House show: 5,832 (from 3,237 on 12/5/2021)
• +24% on 7/20/2025 in Edinburg, TX for House show: 6,992 (from 5,629 on 10/21/2023)
• -6% on 7/21/2025 in Houston, TX for Raw: 13,718 (from 14,521 on 12/30/2024)
• -9% on 7/25/2025 in Cleveland, OH for Smackdown: 9,301 (from 10,242 on 8/2/2024)
• +56% on 7/28/2025 in Detroit, MI for Raw: 14,526 (from 9,314 on 4/11/2022)
• +15% on 8/3/2025 in East Rutherford, NJ for PPV: 58,186 (from 50,493 on 8/2/2025)
• -18% on 8/4/2025 in Brooklyn, NY for Raw: 11,219 (from 13,620 on 4/1/2024)
• -0% on 8/8/2025 in Montreal, QC for Smackdown: 13,987 (from 14,029 on 2/17/2023)
• -12% on 8/11/2025 in Quebec, QC for Raw: 9,589 (from 10,867 on 8/21/2023)
• +5% on 8/15/2025 in Boston, MA for Smackdown: 12,317 (from 11,776 on 9/8/2023)
• +1% on 8/18/2025 in Philadelphia, PA for Raw: 12,889 (from 12,701 on 10/21/2024)
• -46% on 8/24/2025 in Lowell, MA for NXT PPV: 1,874 (from 3,482 on 5/28/2023)
• +53% on 8/27/2025 in Leeds, UK for House show: 5,899 (from 3,846 on 11/8/2021)
• -2% on 8/28/2025 in Cardiff, UK for House show: 4,880 (from 4,962 on 10/13/2024)
• -16% on 8/29/2025 in Lyon-Décines, France for Smackdown: 9,300 (from 11,101 on 5/3/2024)

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.

Note: “AEW Collision” events below are defined as events that taped Collision but not Dynamite. Events defined as “AEW Dynamite” include events that taped Dynamite only as well as both Dynamite and Collision at the same event.

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