AEW London 2023

[Jonny Vegas]

3 hours ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

I forgot two key things. Don't argue with an idiot and don't put anything in the AEW threads that isn't a billion percent positive about AEW or you'll get shouted down forever. 

I think it will sell out and there will be such an uproar that they will do an extra night. 

Could we not have just agreed to disagree and moved on rather than calling me an idiot because I dared to point out that suggesting Bellew being on SAS Who Dares Wins wasn't in any way relevant to his drawing power to a pretty closed audience in mainstream boxing?

Pretending anything I've said is idiotic or calling me an AEW fanboy when neither is anywhere near accurate is just childish.

You said something really stupid and worst case scenario perhaps I've said something close to that level.

Let's draw a line underneath it, move on and focus on what's going to be at the very worst, the third biggest wrestling event in the UK over the last three decades.

Edited April 6, 2023 by Jonny Vegas

[d-d-d-dAz]

I wish you all the feeling you get early in your career where you’re convinced you’ve got a sure fire thing and then on day 1 you sell fuck all tickets.

Is Tony Bellew a bigger name than Sting? Danielson? Omega?

Probably, really depends on what you grew up watching and what your particular echo chamber is.

Would any of the cunts sell out Wembley? No.

[El Hijo del Mikey Jr]

4 minutes ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

I wish you all the feeling you get early in your career where you’re convinced you’ve got a sure fire thing and then on day 1 you sell fuck all tickets.

Is Tony Bellew a bigger name than Sting? Danielson? Omega?

Probably, really depends on what you grew up watching and what your particular echo chamber is.

Would any of the cunts sell out Wembley? No.

Are they running Wembley because they think they can sell out the likely 75-80,000 seats that would likely be available?  Probably not.  However, if you want to run a stadium in the UK in football season, you're looking at Wembley, Twickenham, Cardiff, Hampden Park and Murrayfield.  Realistically, it's Wembley or Cardiff.

[El Hijo del Mikey Jr]

I just booked accommodation for the whole weekend near Kings Cross but I can cancel it up to 3 weeks before.  I feel like this is somehow folly. 

[AndyUK]

Certainly a ballsy move. Not a chance of it selling out but it doesn't need to. 30,000 would be a massive achievement.

[quote the raven]

12 hours ago, Hartleyno9 said:

Because a Travelodge is sold out? Put the Evostik down mate. 

How many does the travelodge hold? 😂

They could stick it on posters for the rest of time - "Sold out Wembley Travelodge in 2023". 

Fuck me theres some negativity here.

I thought it was a good sign of interest that a hotel would sell out in a few hours after the announcement.

I guess this place will be a wash of "told you so" posts one way or another, 

[Snitsky's back acne]

10 hours ago, El Hijo del Mikey Jr said:

Are they running Wembley because they think they can sell out the likely 75-80,000 seats that would likely be available?  Probably not.  However, if you want to run a stadium in the UK in football season, you're looking at Wembley, Twickenham, Cardiff, Hampden Park and Murrayfield.  Realistically, it's Wembley or Cardiff.

Hey, what about Hull? 

[El Hijo del Mikey Jr]

31 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

Hey, what about Hull? 

Too many jokes on this one.  I'm going to tap out.

[Cheapheat]

What would be a decent number that would be considered a success in Wembley? And what kind of numbers would the stadium look a bit empty or underwhelming?

[SuperBacon]

I've just realised I'm taking my eldest to Reading festival that day.

[El Hijo del Mikey Jr]

Just now, Cheapheat said:

What would be a decent number that would be considered a success in Wembley? And what kind of numbers would the stadium look a bit empty or underwhelming?

A good number is one where they don't lose money on the event, which I assume would have to be a gate of around 2.5m based on what I know about hire costs and how much it'd cost to stage the show.  I will defer to anybody who can actually come up with a better, more-reasoned number.

In terms of how it looks on screen, they can do a little jiggery-pokery and set the building up smaller.  Put a stage at one end, that takes away around 20% of the capacity. Find some way to blackout the upper tier, fill up the lower bowl and the pitch first, and you could have a setup of around 48,000.  That's a similar number to SummerSlam 2022.  That would be a massive success IMO and would have the "sea of people" look that you generally want from a stadium show.

[Rockbus2]

2 hours ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

Hey, what about Hull? 

Got confused and booked Craven Park instead of Craven Cottage.

[Infinity Land]

1 hour ago, Cheapheat said:

What would be a decent number that would be considered a success in Wembley? And what kind of numbers would the stadium look a bit empty or underwhelming?

There's different ways to do it. The typical way is to hide a chunk of the capacity behind the staging area. Below's the seat map for Summerslam 2021 in Allegiant Stadium.

Summerslam 2022 did a Hard Cam

They're going to do a number and have staging that will look good. It is AEW of course and they have plenty of production fuck ups so who knows. The troll twitter accounts will be out in force over closed sections.

 

 

[Guest]

I hear they have a large roster, so they could do a World War 3-style battle royal with sixteen rings to remove a few more seats.

[LaGoosh]

25,000 signups for the pre-sale apparently so 30,000 shouldn't be too hard to hit.