AEW All In to set non-WWE North American records
With just over two weeks to go, July’s AEW All In: Texas has already set one non-WWE North American with another right behind it.
In this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reported that the Saturday, July 12th pay-per-view from Globe Life Field in Arlington is currently around a $2.5 million gate with 19,000 paid tickets out — a non-WWE North American record gate record and a record for the largest paid attendance for a non-WWE PPV show ever in North America.
The gate has already exceeded June 2023’s AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door in Toronto, Canada, which brought in $1.25 million which Meltzer said was already the largest non-WWE wrestling gate ever in North America.
It is also shouting distance from becoming the largest non-WWE attendance for a PPV in North American history. The record is currently held by WCW Slamboree in May 1999 which drew 20,516 at the TWA Dome (now The Dome at America’s Center) in St. Louis, Missouri.
Regardless of where the gate ends up, it will be the third-largest in AEW history, trailing 2023’s All In from Wembley Stadium ($10 million) and 2024’s All In from Wembley Stadium (over $6 million).
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.