AEW Revolution does over $1 million gate for Sting’s retirement match
As expected, Sting’s retirement match helped last Sunday’s AEW Revolution do big business at the box office.
Venues Now reported Wednesday that the sold out pay-per-view from Greensboro, North Carolina’s Greensboro Coliseum brought in more than $1 million in gate revenue with an attendance of 16,118.
Scott Johnson, the coliseum’s deputy director, stated the average ticket price was $55. No breakdown of paid vs. comp tickets was reported.
Venues Now also reported that gross merchandise sales brought in nearly $349,000 with an average spend of $21.64 — numbers Johnson said were in line with concerts. Additionally, over $306,000 was spent on concessions which doesn’t include suites.
Johnson said the Coliseum generally books four wrestling shows a year, split between AEW and WWE, that all do “tremendously well.”
AEW’s live gate record is for last August’s All In from London’s Wembley Stadium which generated over $10 million according to AEW head Tony Khan, followed by last June’s Forbidden Door which did nearly $1.2 million in Toronto, Canada.
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.