CMLL sets new attendance milestone at Arena Mexico
CMLL finished off 2025 on a historic note.
The company sold out three Arena Mexico shows in the same week on December 26, 28, and 30. Our own Dave Meltzer notes that this kind of sellout run has never been done before in Mexico and, aside from perhaps some G1 tournaments or major WWE PLE weekends, has never been done anywhere else.
CMLL also finished 2025 by selling out six of the final nine Friday night shows at the venue, which holds approximately 16,500 spectators. The previous Friday night show on December 19 did not sell out, drawing 14,000 for a card headlined by Claudio Castagnoli defending the CMLL Heavyweight Championship against former champion Ultimo Guerrero.
Meltzer discussed CMLL’s 2025 attendance milestones in the December 29 edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Writing before the December 28 and 30 sellouts were known, Meltzer noted that CMLL was already on pace to break records this year.
“With two shows to go, they are somewhere between 1,076,000 and 1,092,000 for the year, although including the Pokemon show and the AEW show, that would put it at 1,106,000 to 1,122,000 in paid attendance as of right now, and that figure would not include sponsored shows in the building. That would easily, probably by close to 200,000 paid attendance, break any previous record in any building in the history of wrestling.”
CMLL’s next show takes place on January 2 at Arena Mexico and will feature a 16-person Mask vs. Hair cage match.
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