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Arthur Ashe officially announced for September 20th which is the date I figured it would be given the last 2 years
Wonder how this will wind up doing. While the 2022 attendance (just under 14k) is still way more than your average AEW TV taping, it was a significant drop from the 20k they pulled for the first one.
Plenty of reasons for it. The product in September 2021 is overwhelmingly considered the hottest period in AEW history. You had the extra boost from hitting the town for the first time, and people wanting to be a part of a landmark event for the company. For many fans it was the first wrestling show, if not first major public gathering, they've been to since COVID so obviously there was a lot of pent up energy there too which kept the crowd red hot even through the entire 4+ hours of tapings.
Last year had none of these things going for it. The product was generally considered to be coming off of a weak summer. The novelty factor wasn't there anymore. A lot of people thought the first show, while fun, was just too damn long and also Arthur Ashe did a terrible job of anticipating the crowd, anyone who went to concession lines would miss 30+ minutes of the show. So experiences like that made it a "that was fun but never again" deal for some. And most of all, the ticket prices went up considerably.
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