AEW House Show Plans Revealed

Prior to COVID, it was believed that AEW management were putting a framework in place to allow for the promotion to begin putting on live shows. We now have more information about what the company had in store.

Rather than WWE, who would run several house shows per week, AEW was only planning on holding around twenty per year, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio:

“When they first started… the original thing that Tony [Khan] told me was 52 TVs, four pay-per-views and about 20 house shows a year. Like you would do a house show maybe every other week… Originally, he was talking to me about how you would not do any house shows the week of New Japan big shows because your top guys would all go to New Japan. The big Sumo Hall’s and things like that. And that didn’t exactly work out, unfortunately.”

At this time, promotions are still unable to have full capacity crowds at shows due to COVID. At Full Gear over the weekend, AEW is believed to have had just under 1,000 spectators in attendance.

This means that plans AEW has to potentially begin running house shows are likely months away from coming to fruition. However, for any potential updates, make sure you stay tuned to WrestleTalk.com.

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Thanks to Cultaholic for the transcription.

• COVID
• house shows
• fans
• AEW

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