Tony Khan Releases Statement On Ticket Resales During Pandemic

It was announced yesterday that All Elite Wrestling would begin selling tickets for AEW Dynamite once again. Albeit at 10% capacity, there will be fans in attendance starting next week. The company has maintained they are talking all the proper precautions to ensure the safety of their fans. Now, Tony Khan has released a statement on the resale of these tickets.

The problem at hand is if tickets are sold in bunches with the intention to keep the groups to people who live together, if those tickets are resold the groups will be filled with people who don’t know each other. This will heighten the chance of the spread of COVID-19, something AEW does not want. Here is the full statement from Tony Khan, released on Twitter earlier today:

Thank you to all of the great wrestling fans who support AEW! Here is my full statement regarding the illegal and unethical outdoor seating pod splitting on the secondary ticket resale market, a move by predatory online ticket resellers which won’t work and won’t be tolerated: pic.twitter.com/CTC2ETNviA

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) August 21, 2020

“We’re very grateful for the fast sellout of Thursday’s outdoor AEW Dynamite live show at 10% venue capacity that we recently announced. The show will be open to a limited number of fans wearing mandatory protective masks who will be seated in a specifically designed, physically distanced arrangement in the open air Daily’s Place amphitheater and will air live on TNT on Thursday, August 27 at 8pm ET/7pm CT.

The tickets were sold in groups, or pods, with the intention of keeping fans with their friends and families and safely distanced from other fans in attendance. We’re seeing some of these tickets being sold on the secondary market in a way that splits original pod, and therefore potentially combining two or more groups of unacquainted fans within the same pod. This was clearly not our intention. Nothing is more important than the health and well-being of the entire AEW family, and that certainly includes our fans. It’s an illegal, unethical and inappropriate move by secondary market sellers, and we intend to polic this situation online as well as at the venue.

To that end, we’re asking our fans to inform us if they’ve feel they’ve purchased tickets that were originally part of the larger pod and we will do what we can to offer a remedy. Furthermore, we will be watching for any AEW Dynamite tickets on the secondary market, and if we see anyone trying to divide a pod for resale, we will cancel the entire original order.

It’s going to be great to have fans back at our show with social distancing precautions in place that will make these outdoor events safe for everyone in attendance. Thank you to all of the great wrestling fans who support AEW!”

AEW has been allowed small numbers of fans to their shows as of late. Those numbers have been around 100-150 people, whereas next week will feature around 500 fans. This will be the biggest crowd for an AEW show since the beginning of the pandemic.

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