All Elite Wrestling

[The Thread Killer]

So they just announced All Out is going to be in Toronto in September at the Scotiabank Arena. You can seat around 18,000 people in that arena for Pro Wrestling but it depends how they configure the place, of course. They have only sold about 15,000 tickets for All In Texas, and that’s a stadium show, so I assume they will be draping off part of the arena for All Out.

I guess that All Out being in September means Tony Khan figured out that doing All In and All Out on consecutive weekends isn’t going to work, especially if you don’t offer some sort of discount for people who purchase both shows.

I have a buddy who really wants to go, but I don’t live in Toronto anymore, I’m a few hours outside the city now, plus there’s no way I will be able to afford a ticket anyways. Last time they ran Toronto, the tickets were $1,200. They finally came down a few days before the show because they didn’t sell out, but I honestly can’t be bothered. I think my days of going to Live Pro Wrestling shows are over, for a variety of reasons.

EDIT: Oh shit…I just saw somebody mention online that the fact that they are doing the show in Toronto could indicate that this is where they are planning on having the big Cope & Christian vs. FTR match finally. That makes sense.

[El-P]

4 minutes ago, The Thread Killer said:

Last time they ran Toronto, the tickets were $1,200. 

Seriously, what the fuck ?

I checked the Forbidden Door tickets. Again. I *could* go. But I'm not sure I wanna spend hundreds of euros for a wrestling shows, no matter how great it might be, not even counting the transport and hotel and food and shit in London. I wouldn't mind take some walks in London again, last time I was there was.... eons ago. But fuuuuck this is so ridiculously expensive.

I'm guessing in Toronto they will go full Cope/Christian doing something important, like the tag-team championship against FTR.

[The Thread Killer]

The tickets for All Out in Toronto are now on sale. They are opening around 8,000 seats for this show. From the seating map, it looks like they are going to block off about 1/3 of the arena with the stage. They have already sold 5,600 seats with about 2,400 still available.

The cheapest seats are going for $52.00 so obviously Tony Khan learned his lesson last time around. (Which I would hope he would have considering that last AEW Canadian tour was a total disaster as far as ticket sales. There was that Collision taping in Hamilton where they sold less than 1000 seats in Copps Colliseum.)

I am guessing that if (as speculated) this is the show where Copeland and Christian reunite, they will have no issue selling the rest of those tickets, provided they announce the card well enough in advance and do some local publicity (which is never a guarantee with AEW) because those two guys are so well known here.