AEW Grand Slam Ticket Sales Are Down, BUT...
This week's AEW Grand Slam special will be a considerable business success.
This week's special Grand Slam episodes of AEW Dynamite and Rampage won't shift as many tickets as last year's incarnation, though the event has already surpassed its gate.
AEW founder and CEO Tony Khan revealed as much on Twitter on Monday. If Grand Slam 2022 now passes a $1 million gate, as each of AEW's last three pay-per-views has done, it'll be the first time one of the company's television tapings has hit that mark.
Tweeted Khan:-
Surpassed 2021 @AEW Grand Slam gate; now SO close to the FIRST$1 million @AEWonTV gate, after 3 straight PPVs hitting $1 million for the 1st time
I promise you won’t want to missGrand Slam,super card + maybe something up my sleeveLIVE on TBS + tickets https://t.co/YDS5ifNqnB
Advertisement— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) September 19, 2022
AEW had moved a total of 11,936 tickets for Grand Slam at the time of WrestleTix's last update. Last year's event sold around 18,300 with over 20,000 people in the building. With only 14,556 tickets made available inside Arthur Ashe Stadium this time, AEW is destined to fall short in terms of overall sales. Individual ticket prices, however, are higher, hence why the 2022 show will pull a higher gate than 2021.
Dave Meltzer writes in the Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online's Daily Update that last year's gate was approximately $960,000. This week's show is already a record for a Dynamite and/or Rampage show. Should ticket sales speed up over the next two days, AEW's all-time record gate, Double Or Nothing 2022, could be in sight.