The Dart

9 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

Whats in the bus? I wasn't queuing for it.

Memorabilia.  Don’t know if it’s free but I assume it is.  I would have thought the queue would have been bigger if it was free though.  Maybe it was just for VIP ticket holders or something?

Dude I’ve been to every WWE show at the O2 except one and never seen anything like this before!

48 minutes ago, 300 said:

Sparse? Don’t be an arse, it will be packed to the rafters with a brilliant atmosphere tonight, can’t wait!

Yeh what an insane thing to say.  Sure, there's still a good number of tickets available for tonight - as low as £59 but it'll probably be the biggest crowd they've ever had at the O2 for a televised event, until tomorrow.

Noticed the live broadcast on BT Sports is only 1 hour 45 minutes.  Guessing that’s so they can add in 15 mins of extra adverts when it’s shown in America a few hours later.

Riot Cabaret Pro Wrestling have a show on the Friday night.

I believe Eve have 2 shows on the Saturday.   One at 2pm (?) in Hackney and one at 9pm at The Dome.

Pretty cool video.  They've both talked about it so much, but I don't know if they have together before.

1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:

How many times did she lose the Raw women's title to Sasha Banks on the Raw before a PPV, then win the title back at the PPV before losing it again in the rematch a week or so later.

Never.

Thanks to an article on PWInsider, it was only a year ago yesterday that the allegations first came out, let alone everything else that happened after.   That is crazy that it was only a year ago.

1 hour ago, FUM said:

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It was the entire basis of about 15 minutes of promo jousting between them last night.

 

22 minutes ago, air_raid said:

I'd <<Kevin Keegan>> LOVE IT <</Keegan>> if they referenced the first Universal title match in the build up. Balor never got chance to prove himself as a top champion, Rollins never got to avenge the loss. But they won't.

They already have. 

It's not the focal point of the build up to the match, but it's been mentioned already.

7 hours ago, pgi86 said:

I have a random and perhaps silly question, but since I don't have any experience using Ticketmaster I've been wondering. Is it normal that when I open my All In tickets on Ticketmaster it tells me they're not available yet and they would be available at least three days prior to the event (resale option is active at the moment, but the transfer option is not). I'm asking because I've upgraded my tickets and I wanted to sell my original tickets to a friend, but because the transfer option is not active I cannot transfer them to him yet. If this is indeed normal and expected, which I'm assuming it is, does anyone have any idea when the tickets might become available? When does this typically happen for such large scale events?

It's specifically to stop you being able to sell it to your friend.   If he gives you cash and you transfer the ticket to him then TM aren't going to get a cut.   Whereas if you sell it on the TM website (which you can do now, even though you don't have the ticket) and he buys it then TM will get their 10% or however much it is.

2 hours ago, s279 said:

I didn't say I was expecting anybody to work together, just that you'd think they'd try and avoid each other when it's such a small pool to both be pissing in.

Rev Pro are hoping to get 5,000 of the 70,000 in town to come to their show.  I doubt they’re too bothered that 700 won’t come cos they’ll be at Progress instead.

Yeh my ticket for CATC was £60.   I thought that was pretty reasonable.

PPV tickets have been very expensive for a long time.   Just because front row for Raw is £90 doesn't mean a PPV would be.   Even without the massive demand for tickets like MITB had, a PPV front row ticket will be $500 in America where a Raw might be $100 in the same arena and that's been the case for a long time.

I paid $120 for a Hell in a Cell ticket 10 years ago and that was in the lower tier.

2 hours ago, CavemanLynn said:

I think certain acts just work in certain environments. WWE seem to acknowledge this too, with the example I always go to being Elias getting the call up super early because they knew he was a main roster guy who'd get lost in the higher-workrate NXT at the time. I still think Pretty Deadly are lacking technically - they're curled up all the time, that butt bounce lungblower move is fxxxing stupid, and for an athletic-looking guy, I haven't seen Elton get anywhere near high enough for the neck breaker on the tag finish they do every match - but character wise, as personalities for TV and for the smart in-ring angles and spots like that one, they're top notch. 

He was in NXT for 3 years.  I wouldn't call that super early.

1 hour ago, Healy52003 said:

Do they still record Main Event before SD tapings ?

Id imagine for the 30th June, Dark matches/Main Event from 7pm with main show 8pm-10pm ?

No they don't.   The usual format for Smackdown is one dark match before the show and 2 after, although it's not always the case.   It's not clear what the advertised start time is at the moment, because they've said it will broadcast live at 8, but WWE list the start time as 8, but the O2's website says 7.   Normally it would be 7.45.

Rev Pro's announcement was a bit bigger though !

43 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

Aren't the titles for both brands?

Yes and always have been.

3 hours ago, FUM said:

I forgot to give them credit for lasting one whole show with the draft split in place. Of course it’s disregarded for the Womens Tag Titles this Friday. What was the point?

What is this referring to?

1 hour ago, The King Of Swing said:

I'm pretty sure that New Japan are also known to inflate their numbers, especially for Tokyo Dome shows. 

I've seen "official attendance" of 1000 in buildings that hold 400 by Japanese promotions.

71,000 tickets sold according to some of the ticket experts.

I know anyone from the UK will be considered "local" as Americans seem to think England is some small village, but this part of AEW's official press release made me laugh :

AEW Women’s World Champion and Southampton native Jamie Hayter is also excited for “AEW to make its long awaited debut in my home town, the United Kingdom."

On 4/8/2023 at 11:44 AM, Keith Houchen said:

Hey lads, do you know what would be real clever and something nobody has ever done? Use “London Calling” by the awful band The Clash in any tv spots to emphasise its in London. Nobody has ever done that before. 

Almost.   Almost.

Originally it was only offering me £27 tickets right at the top, so I thought I'd just leave it and try in the general sale, but I tried again an hour or so later and got section 245 for £115.

I wouldn't have been happy being right up in the 500s even though it's a bargain price.

Mine was in my junk folder.  Check.

1 hour ago, Statto said:

I realise none of this shit matters or ever really makes sense, but how on earth (in kayfabe) has Omos, the bloke presented as a major threat to Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania last month & set to face top star Seth Rollins at the ppv next week, gone undrafted?

If you watch it you would have seen that MVP negotiated for Omos to not be drafted so the 2 brands can fight over him.   Now - that still doesn't make sense because them fighting over him is surely what the draft is.   Also, who is it we are to believe are doing the picks as Adam Pearce "runs" both.   Are we to believe it's the TV Networks execs?   But, if in MVP's mind, keeping him a free agent is a good thing, then I suppose it does make sense as that's what managers are for.