While Canada and England are two immediate focuses of AEW as they head over borders and cross the ocean, one star believes India will be a market AEW will hit eventually. As mentioned earlier, WWE is planning on a show in India and are pushing Indus Sher as a result.
AEW Star Believes the Company Will Do Well in India
First, it’s expected that the Wembley Stadium show will meet its attendance goal and have moved over 65,000 tickets of a 75,000-seat setup. There is still time for the company to sell out but that would require either a must-see signing or some major storyline or match development. AEW got a second wind with the announcement of CM Punk’s return and as the Collision cards were given matches and scheduled appearances.
It not as if the ticket sales are like raining fans now. Low arena setups mean that AEW could meet those attendances just by teasing Goldberg signing with the company and announcing the return of Punk. Those two had the juice to cover Collision, maxing out All In will require something else of comparable importance.
When it comes to ticket availability for any kind of event, the first few days are the most important as fans snag good seating as quickly as possible. With two months until the event, most of the prime seats have been scooped up and the card will need to a can’t miss show to move the last 10,000.
Satnam Singh believes that AEW could sell out in India. Now, when a foreign talent comes from a market that has wrestling or just received wrestling in the last few years, they’re going to hype their home region as being a hotbed for wrestling.
Now, in Singh’s case he might be on to something as wrestling is big in India, it’s just that foreign companies tend not to keep India or that part of Asia in its travel plans. A big tour isn’t on the table for India but a show? Perhaps. After all, The Great Khali’s CWE promotion has a following there and the IMPACT side-promotion Ring Ka King made it to television and did well before it was ended.
Singh told Sportskeeda:
“India, I am going to say yes, we will come over there for sure. But I really want first to get more improved in AEW, we want more bigger, we want more exposure for AEW in other countries so we can have the best match in India. In the UK it has 60,000 tickets sold out already, and I want, whenever we come to India, not 60,000, [but]100,000 tickets.”
AEW currently has a broadcasting deal with Eurosport India, so it has a presence in the market.
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