WWE Stomping Grounds TERRIBLE Attendance EXPOSED!
Shocking photos reveal the true extent of WWE's empty arena problems.
The above photograph isn't from a house show or even halfway through the deadest of 205 Live tapings: it's from a WWE main roster pay-per-view.
Last night's Stomping Grounds show drew an embarrassing crowd to Tacoma, Washington's 20,722-seater Tacoma Dome, with the promotion forced to curtain off almost the entire hard camera side.
These pieces of media highlight the extent of the problem:-
It looks like those reports on Stomping Grounds awful ticket sales panned out as expected. Regardless of how many fans showed up in Tacoma, the huge, black curtain is a humiliating visual for WWE, who laid a major egg by scheduling a B-level pay-per-view so close to a Saudi Arabian show, forcing them to switch from San Diego, California to Washington.
In Tacoma's defence, you'd have never guessed the arena was half empty from the noise they made at various points. Enthusiasm dipped during certain matches, but this was a noisy, raucous building for a while, particular as home state hero Daniel Bryan teamed with Rowan to face Heavy Machinery.
Regardless, the sparse attendance shows that WWE is a colder product than Doritos 3D at the moment. Their live event attendance downturn continues.