Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Russellomics Radio. I'm Brandon Thurston Broadcasting live and on demand for Buffalo, New York where today is Sunday March 19th, 2023, and I'm joined today by by two individuals. One of whom claims that

Sammy Zane, Kevin Owens and Orange Cassidy are better draws than Roman Reigns and returning this week. That is Chris Gull, obviously, and returning this week from his private meeting with Vince McMahon perhaps, Jesse Collins. Hello.

Yeah, I mean, it wasn't just Vince, but so I wouldn't really call it a private meeting. I see. What was there? Nick Ed, Muhammad Insalman was he there? Yeah. Manjeet Singh was there. Manjeet Singh, the former independent director of WV. Yeah, he was there. Barrios was there, of course. Barrios had to like sit outside, but he was there. Okay. Interesting. All right.

I was at a ESW show last night, so it was Chris Cullo. I was just there as a spectator. I was not working in any capacity, not in an official capacity or unofficial capacity. I saw about the second half of the show. It was good to hang out and socializing stuff. Was it a good show? Yeah, it was a fun night. I had a lot of talent. GCW talent around the show and there was a lot of GCW personnel just hanging out at the show too.

Was this a GCW house show? I'm not saying now a GCW affiliate GCW house rules. No, I mean, it was just a friendly, friendly gathering. Yeah. Yes. Okay.

Okay. Well, I guess we'll begin. We've got a lot of live events talk on this episode this week. We'll be heavily relying on WrestleTik's data here today, because, and then by the way, if you can like and subscribe and share this that'll help us out a lot.

And if you have a question or comment of your own a super chat, we'll be accepted if you're watching live on YouTube and you want to submit your comment or your question, we will address it. But the AEW house rules, I have to be careful with what I say here because I have Tony Khan correcting me in my head here, not literally.

But I would say this is the first AEW house show, but I know that's not technically true. There was that that Jacksonville show that they ran a couple of years ago, which had also had a, how was that branded the head, the word house in it. I forget what it was.

The house always wins. That's right. Another casino reference. But this was house rules. Last night in Troy, Ohio, Russell six has the number at 30, at 3,200 tickets distributed, which is reportedly close to a sellout.

There's a lot of general admission. There's general admission apparently for this so that would not everything was a designated seat, but the GA was $20.

We could think through like how much money this show made. So let's, I'm sure we've got a lower ticket price here than usual pay per views. We'll go up to, I think it's highest, you know, $90 or $100 in terms of an average ticket price.

But if we just did the math here and say, I don't know, say there's an average ticket price of like $35 and let's assume to be aggressive that all 3,200 were paid. Then we've got, you know, $112,000 for a live gate.

And if we add in like, say $11 per capita for venue merch, then we can get to almost $150,000 for a gross for this event.

I think there's a lot of questions around whether this house shows can be done profitably and to what extent it's worth it to do house shows.

There was a tremendous amount of concern about AW doing a house show event. Oh my god, what if they don't make money off this house show branded? What a bad decision this is going to be if AW runs a little bit in the red on this house show.

And I don't know, like, I was listening to like some of like the people talking before the show, well, what's the lineup? Are they going to have title matches?

Would WWE does house shows people know that they don't matter, but that's okay because they've accepted that and AW will let fans reject it because they feel like the results don't matter, which we don't know if the results don't matter for AW house shows because they have only done one previously.

But I would imagine we heard anything coming out of this with as far as the results were there any major angles on this show.

I don't believe there were any I can't I have seen the results. I don't believe there were any major like angles that you would need to see like that would maybe come back on television like things like Jeff Jarrett won.

He beat Jeff Jarrett defeated Brian Pylman Jr. He beat Brian Pylman Jr. Obviously Moxley was in the main event.

I just think I can confirm Tony Conn came out for a quick promo thanking everyone.

Yeah, I would say the WWE I would say that 3200 fans is a very good number.

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