Times have changed for AEW as the company is transitioning to smaller venues. Recently the company held TV tapings at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, and it’s expected that All Elite Wrestling will continue to run smaller venues next year.
While talking about the smaller venues with Josh Martinez on Z100, Chris Jericho shared his take on why he thinks it’s a smart decision for AEW to utilize different venues moving forward.
“The worst thing you can ever do, in any business, is overprice yourself or overextend yourself. We’re at a place where, to go to some of the middle-sized venues, not in every city, but in some of them, it’s a very smart move for many reasons, but most importantly, the vibe of the fans. You want to put 10,000 people into an arena, and if you can, you do. If you’re down to 5,000, but you go to a 4,000 seat arena, it increases demand and makes the show more exciting and translates better on TV.
Right now, with all of the different choices that people have to buy tickets to go shows, we’re smart to move to different sized venues because it makes it cooler. We have always had the cool factor in AEW, especially when we started. Then going into the pandemic and coming out of the pandemic. One way is the supply and demand. If you have this many tickets for sale and they’re gone, it makes the product hotter and you continue to grow.”
H/T Fightful
