March 27, 2023 Observer Newsletter: The latest on WWE WrestleMania 39, AEW ticket sales update
With WrestleMania coming up in Southern California, it will be the biggest money week in company history from a live show perspective, and likely with whatever Peacock pays for WrestleMania rights, plus the huge increase in sponsorships that WWE has been getting for big shows, it will be record-setting in that realm as well.
For the WWE events the 3/31 Smackdown and Hall of Fame event at the Crypto.com Arena, they had 14,393 tickets out and are 838 tickets shy of sellout, so they will sell out.
Stand & Deliver with a 9 a.m. start time on 4/1 has 6,678 tickets out in the same building, which is far above last year in Dallas, although there have been WrestleMania week NXT shows that have done much better. From 2015 to 2019, the WrestleMania NXT big event over the weekend sold out but it has not done so since 2019 and this year will be well above last year but far from a sellout.
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