WWE “Messed Up Bad” By Overloading Weekend With Shows

A huge weekend of wrestling action is on the horizon, but have WWE shot themselves in the foot amid sluggish ticket sales for two big shows?

AEW All In Texas will be Tony Khan’s promotion’s biggest US show to date, but it won’t be running without competition. WWE announced Saturday Night’s Main Event would take place on the same night, so AEW pivoted and moved their show to the afternoon, but again, WWE countered.

NXT Great American Bash will run head-to-head with All In Texas, but the weekend is not done there. The all-female Evolution show will return to WWE on July 13th with WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus returning to challenge for gold. But WWE is not having everything its own way.

Little Interest In WWE NXT Great American Bash?

Ticket sales for the NXT show and Evolution remain slow, and speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that WWE might have planned too much for the one weekend:

WWE, in their quest to run so many shows to make sure AEW isn’t a success, I think they messed up bad. It looks to me like there’s very little interest in NXT’s Great American Bash. If they’re not selling out Center Stage, that’s not really that good.

The women’s show would have sold out Mohegan Sun easily. I think running three shows in the same market was overkill. There was no point to do the Bash, they did the Bash because AEW moved from the evening to the afternoon, then they threw this other one in to burn out the weekend, and the only thing they burned out was [themselves].

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