WWE SmackDown tonight selling 3,500+ fewer tickets in Kentucky than 2025 visit
WWE Friday Night SmackDown takes place tonight (May 22, 2026) at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT with the broadcast live on the USA Network in the United States and streamed worldwide on Netflix. As of writing, the ticket sales for the show are way down on where they were for the company’s visit to Kentucky back in June 2025.
According to the latest report from WrestleTix, 8,269 tickets have been distributed for tonight’s show, and this is up +45 since the last update (1 day ago). This number is way down on the tickets distributed the last time the company ran the building, which was the 6/13/2025 Smackdown with 12,270 tickets sold.
The cheapest ticket available right now at standard Admission is $43.30, with around 342 tickets currently on the resale market. For context, the year to date average for tickets distributed for WWE events is 11,425, so that covers January to now (including the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania).
WWE SmackDown Tickets compared to SNME
Tonight’s show is the defacto go-home programme for tomorrow night’s SNME, which takes place from Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, IN. 10,039 tickets have been distributed for that event so far.
It is worth noting that the buildings are only around 4 hours or so away from each other, so people deciding to go to one event or the other could definitely have been a factor for tonight’s SmackDown ticket sales.
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