AEW Set To Draw Record Non-WWE Wrestling Gate In North America
Double Or Nothing 2022 will net AEW well over $1 million in ticket sales.
All Elite Wrestling's Double Or Nothing 2022 pay-per-view is set to draw the largest gate of any non-WWE wrestling event held in North America.
Per Dave Meltzer in the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, AEW has currently sold 12,939 of the 13,524 made available for the 29 May event. From this, the promotion has grossed $1.145 million.
585 tickets remained available for Double Or Nothing at the time of writing, meaning that the above figure is likely to increase.
The joint New Japan Pro Wrestling/Ring Of Honor G1 Supercard previously held the non-WWE record at $1.1 million. That show took place in Madison Square Garden, New York City on 6 April 2019, over WrestleMania 35 weekend. Prior to this, only CMLL's 81st Anniversary Show in September 2014 had drawn a $1 million gate in North America (WWE excluded, of course).
Double Or Nothing will return to its original Las Vegas, Nevada host city 2022, having taken place in Jacksonville, Florida for the 2020 and 2021 shows as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with live crowds back in buildings and AEW no longer consigned to an empty Daily's Place, what was intended to be an annual tradition can be resumed.