Poor Ticket Sales Forced WWE To Move Upcoming Show

WWE has cancelled an upcoming TV taping, and the real reason for the call off has now been revealed.

WWE recently held NXT Battleground in the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida, where Trick Williams made history by winning the TNA World Championship.

WWE had originally planned to hold the May 27 edition of NXT in the same venue, but were forced to cancel and instead brought NXT back to the Performance Center. And it seems poor ticket sales for the show were to blame for the late change.

WWE Not Happy With Ticket Sales

Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer explained that WWE will pull out of bigger buildings if ticket sales are poor compared to how AEW tackled the issue in recent years:

That only had 1700 tickets out so they figured it’d be better to do the 200 people in that small building rather than a big building, the optics wouldn’t look so good. They’re really into that, they’ve done that before, they did it in St. Louis, the one with Randy Orton where they didn’t sell tickets so they moved it to a smaller building.

Unlike with AEW when they were running big buildings and they would curtain it off, WWE doesn’t want that. If it’s a small crowd they’ll get out of the big building.

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