As noted before, AEW has sold around 60,000 tickets for their upcoming All In event this August at Wembley Stadium in London, England. This amount has already surpassed what WWE had generated for their first day sales for SummerSlam 1992 at Wembley Stadium and both nights of this past April’s WrestleMania 39 events.
In regards to other notable events that AEW’s All In event could end up surpassing or come close to for ticket sales, Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE had generated around 63,000 as the paid attendance for WrestleMania 35 in 2019, 66,700 paid for their WrestleMania 33 event in 2017, and 79,800 paid for their WrestleMania 32 event in 2016 which is also the company’s all-time paid record.
In regards to wrestling history, Meltzer reported that the largest ever paid attendances for a wrestling event at the Tokyo Dome in Japan is around 40,000 each for an event from UWF in 1989 and an event from NJPW in 1995. Meltzer also reported that the largest ever paid for a wrestling event in Mexico is around 48,000 for AAA’s Triplemania I event in 1993. WCW’s record for largest ever paid attendance reportedly was 35,514 for their July 6, 1998 Nitro show at the Georgia Dome, which also had an overall attendance of 41,412.
In regards to live gate revenues, Meltzer reported that AEW’s current live gate revenues of $7.7 million surpassed their previously all-time record of $1.145 million from their Double or Nothing 2022 event in Las Vegas, Nevada. AEW reportedly also surpassed the live gate revenue of $2.2 million that WWE generated for their SummerSlam 1992 event in London, which was also the previous record for highest ever live gate for a wrestling event in Europe. Meltzer reported that WCW’s all-time record for live gate revenue was $930,735 for their January 4, 1999 Nitro show at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.
In regards to WWE’s live gate revenue records, Meltzer reported that the top three records in WWE history are $17.3 million for WrestleMania 32 in 2016 in Arlington, Texas, $8.1 million for this past September’s Clash at the Castle event in Cardiff, Wales, and $7.3 million for this past January’s Royal Rumble 2023 event in San Antonio, Texas.