WWE Raw Draws Biggest Live Crowd In Nearly 5 Years

WWE's impressive attendance figures continued in major fashion with last night's Raw.

By Andrew Pollard / March 26, 2024

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With WWE currently on a roll of huge attendances, major TV numbers, and strong merchandise figures - in addition to that ten-year, $5 billion Netflix deal - last night's Raw saw that momentum continue in significant fashion.

Emanating from Chicago's Allstate Arena, this week's Raw had over 15,000 fans in attendance, making it the biggest Raw crowd since the night after WrestleMania 35 back in April 2019.

With tonight’s Monday Night Raw in Chicago on pace to sell out & officially top 15,000 in attendance, it will become the biggest RAW crowd in nearly 5 years.
The last being 4/8/19 in Brooklyn, the night after WrestleMania 35, which saw 15,741 in attendance.

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— WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) March 25, 2024

As per WrestleTix, the Allstate Arena floorplan was being changed less than two hours before Raw in order to make more seats available.

The map has just changed as well They might be in the process of adding more floor seats. pic.twitter.com/7hlQUBG9aD— WrestleTix (@WrestleTix) March 25, 2024

To highlight just how well WWE is performing in terms of attendance figures, the numbers (via Cagematch) for WWE's post-Elimination Chamber shows are as follows:

- 26th February Raw: 12,218

- 1st March SmackDown: 12,426

- 4th March Raw: 13,748

- 8th March SmackDown: 14,001

- 11th March Raw: 12,962

- 15th March SmackDown: 12,435

- 18th March Raw: 12,682

- 22nd March SmackDown: 11,253

Whichever way you choose to look at it, there's no denying that those figures are pretty darn impressive. And it's not like Raw and SmackDown were drawing small crowds before Elimination Chamber, but more that the most recent Premium Live Event seemed a logical jumping-off point when comparing recent attendance numbers.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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Posted On: 26th Mar 2024