John Cena made his return to the ring during the final SmackDown of 2022 back in December, and the former WWE Champion was recently confirmed for the March 6th episode of Monday Night Raw in Boston.
Cena doesn’t make appearances on WWE programming all that often nowadays, but his presence certainly seems to help ticket sales. Dave Meltzer recently talked about John Cena’s return on Wrestling Observer Radio and he also broke down the positive impact that Cena has had on WWE ticket sales for the event.
“They announced John Cena on Monday night, right? They’ve sold 2,000 more tickets as of this (Wednesday) morning with the announcement, so they’ll probably end up selling out. The guy, make no mistake about it, just the announcing of John Cena… when he was in Laredo, Texas, the first one, where he sold out the building (for his 20th anniversary show on June 27, 2022). And then Tampa he sold out again (December 30, 2022).”
“Tampa did not have anything special as an advance, it was a normal advance, and then as soon as they announced John Cena, tickets started moving really, really quick. And the other show was the same thing.
“Boston was fine (March 6, 2023), they were over 7,000 tickets – 7,700 tickets out when they announced him. And they’re at probably 10,000 right now, just under 10 as of this (Wednesday) morning, so I would guess over 10 right now. So the guy can move tickets, that was pretty impressive.”
H/T WrestleTalk.com
