10 Ways AEW Has ALREADY Made Wrestling History
6. Breaking A 22-Year-Old PPV Record
Having seen WWE lose the services of both Daniel Bryan and Adam Cole, fans of AEW and wrestling as a whole filled the air with speculation and excitement ahead of 2021's All Out PPV.
Add to that the in-ring return of a certain voice of the voiceless (more on that later), and the Chicago-held show was destined for history within the realms of AEW and, evidently, beyond.
Writing in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter following the event, Dave Meltzer reported that All Out scored the largest pay-per-view buy rate for a non-WWE event since April 1999, and WCW's Spring Stampede.
While reports vary, the general consensus has the buy rate at around 205,000, which more than doubled the buy rate of All Out 2020 (c.90,000) and looms large over the company's previous record of 135,000 buys for Revolution 2021.
All Out 2021 still holds this record, as the following PPV, Full Gear, went on to accrue 145,000 buys.