Slammiversary Sets Attendance Record As AJ Styles Returns (TNA News)

Slammiversary 2025 sets a new attendance record for TNA.

by Andrew Pollard
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With the much-hyped TNA return of AJ Styles amongst the main attractions at Slammiversary last night, that PPV set a new attendance record for the Anthem promotion.

As announced by Tom Hannifan during Slammiversary, the event had a crowd of 7,623 people in attendance at Long Island's UBS Arena. That marks the highest attendance in history for a TNA event in North America, surpassing the previous record of 7,200 at Lockdown 2013 from San Antonio's Alamodome.

Following Slammiversary, TNA President Carlos Silva put out the following statement:

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"To see a record-setting crowd at the UBS Arena was a milestone moment for TNA Wrestling that no one will ever forget."

For AJ Styles, his Slammiversary role saw him come out to congratulate Leon Slater on becoming the new X Division Champion, with the young Brit finally getting the better of Moose. Of course, there might be more to come from the Phenomenal One, particularly with Trick Williams having recently called out AJ.

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On headlining duties last night, it was Williams retaining the TNA World Championship in a triple-threat against Mike Santana and Joe Hendry. Prior to the PPV, we were lucky enough to grab some time with Trick, with him proclaiming himself as the greatest World Champion in TNA history, pointing out the eyes he's brought to the company. With that record-setting Slammiversary crowd, Williams will surely have more to talk about in the aftermath of this event.

Elsewhere, another major talking point coming out of Slammiversary is that NXT's Jacy Jayne is your new TNA Knockouts Champion, defeating Masha Slamovich with both champions' respective titles on the line. As such, the top prizes of TNA's men's and women's divisions are now in the possession of WWE-contracted talent.

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For those wondering about TNA's highest ever attendance, period, that was at London's Wembley Arena for a January 2009 house show headlined by Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Jarrett. Back then, an impressive 8,100 fans packed out Wembley Arena for a card also featuring the likes of Samoa Joe, Abyss, Scott Steiner, Nick Aldis, and Beer Money.

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