Triple H says WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event broke multiple records
According to Triple H, Saturday Night’s Main Event broke multiple records.
In a post to social media on Sunday, Triple H announced that Saturday’s show at Washington’s Capital One Arena was the highest grossing WWE arena event ever and the highest-grossing event of all time for the venue.
Triple H wrote:
“Thank you @CapitalOneArena! Tonight’s #SNME was not simply the highest grossing @WWE arena event ever, but highest grossing event ever at Capital One Arena.”
Capital One Arena in Washington, DC is also home to the NHL’s Washington Capitals, WNBA’s Washington Mystics, NBA’s Washington Wizards, and the NCAA Georgetown Hoyas men’s basketball team.
According to a post by WrestleTix, 19,176 tickets were distributed to the event. Dave Meltzer noted in Friday’s edition of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the event was expected to bring in more than 4 million.
Meltzer wrote:
“We don’t have an estimate, although it’ll be well above $4 million. And the reality is they underpriced tickets, not overpriced, given the secondary market average ticket price sold as of two days before the show is $866.98, so they were getting double and triple face value.”
The lowest ticket price to get in as of Friday was over $300, but Wrestletix noted on Saturday that some new seats had been added for around $230.
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