Meltz: None of the SummerSlam weekend events have sold out

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I get that people travel and shyt but that's more for WrestleMania than anything. Even SummerSlam is going to have a big local crowd and how many times they had it there now. It's played out plus it's honestly a one match show. There's other matches that will be good but u can watch them at home. There's nothing that is making people feel like they gotta be there live.

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The idea that any company in the history of wrestling could sell out buildings even in their home town for four nights in a row is ludicrous. Especially since one is basically their minor league and three have the same wrestlers.

Imagine 97 WCW had

Saturday - a card with Scott Norton vs raven on the top, with the rest wcw Saturday night guys
Sunday - super brawl
Monday - nitro
Tuesday - thunder

All in Atlanta or Charlotte. It's absolutely impossible to NOT cannibalize your own audience. This is a pure non story to me outside of perhaps poor planning...and even THEN they're gonna make way more money in this four days with the shows than they would any other time of the year other than Mania.
 

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Sucks because we usually we can rely on WWE to atleast pull a good card together for the 2nd biggest PPV. Even when TV is shyt most of the time we know Vince will put something together for SSlam or WM but this shyt :trash:
 

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The idea that any company in the history of wrestling could sell out buildings even in their home town for four nights in a row is ludicrous. Especially since one is basically their minor league and three have the same wrestlers.

Imagine 97 WCW had

Saturday - a card with Scott Norton vs raven on the top, with the rest wcw Saturday night guys
Sunday - super brawl
Monday - nitro
Tuesday - thunder

All in Atlanta or Charlotte. It's absolutely impossible to NOT cannibalize your own audience. This is a pure non story to me outside of perhaps poor planning...and even THEN they're gonna make way more money in this four days with the shows than they would any other time of the year other than Mania.

They did sell out last year for three straight nights so it makes sense for them to add SD. Next year they'll probably just stick to RAW.

If you look at all the events they're having this week, you can see why they'd want a presence in NY or LA. They want to be able to do as many media appearances as possible.

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They figure it doesn't matter if they sell out as long as they can charge more per ticket
 
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Haven't been able to find a decent ticket price for SummerSlam at all. My birthday is next weekend I wanted to treat myself.
 

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The last fun SummerSlam was 2013... And frankly... the rest have either been one show matches or just trash events.
 
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