TNA at the Alamodome

[slikrik84]

I read all the responses and agree that the gate is not where they make the money. They would make more money in the long run by getting people to sample the product. Bully Ray (conveniently) even said something this morning that was similar to this point, about getting people to sample TNA would grow their numbers. Well, here's your chance!

I subscribe to WWE magazine and a while back they had a picture with how many times they performed in each state throughout the year... conveniently, Texas was number 1. There's a reason for that. There are a lot of wrestling fans here. Maximize on that. Market your stars and sell out the alamodome (heck sell the whole balcony for $1 per ticket). Again, it is all about getting an audience to sample the product.

Right now it is very clear on the ticketmaster website. It is isolated in a corner of the arena. In order to utilize the full arena they would have to make serious changes to the tickets that have already mailed out.

I really don't get the point that some of you are making about this being a big deal because it is at the Alamodome... that is not enough. First of all, anyone that lives in this region knows that the Alamodome has basically been like an old vacant Wal-Mart since the AT&T center opened over ten years ago. Having an event at this place is only glamorous if you put 70,000 people in it. Otherwise you rented a second-rate building halfway across the country to sell 4,000 tickets. Again, why?

But then again I guess it is similar to the booking of the Pay Per View last night. I have to say that I was disgusted when Angle and the scrubs beat Aces and Eights to only later have Aces and Eights come out and destroy Hardy and Roode... Yeah, that makes sense. I love the wrestlers of TNA but my goodness the people running the place are not the brightest and clearly are the biggest reason that TNA hasn't turned the corner in ten years of a 1.0 rating on Thursday's Impact.

[El Terrible]

I'm not sure why they are doing this, all I know is I'm going. I have never been to a TNA live show and the cable provider here just got rid of the channel that broadcasted Impact, so I have been in the dark with TNA.

I guess that's the point. Market the product in Texas. I would bump it up to 10,000 though, but they still have time to do that.

[Danger Burger]

The seating chart has been put up on the main page, if anyone is interested?

Click for Spoiler:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/seatingchart/98415/46582

Its a strange move, and one i'll definitely be interested in seeing the results of. I cant imagine like many are saying that the purpose of this is to say they had an event in the alamodome, what prestige does that add? However, if they sell all those 4000 tickets, they can atleast say they had a sold out show at the alamodome. No other wrestling company ever accomplished that feat.

I'm hoping they do well. TNA could do alot more if they had alot more. ANd it will help them get out on the road more often. With the large student body living in the area, they could easily draw good. With the shows prior to the event being taped in the UK (am I right on this) they will have two weeks or so back to get the show on the road (whoah, never thought I'd use that term literally) and they can send hogan down to promote the hell out of it. Put a james storm in every bar.

The OP may have been right though that selling more tickets cheaper would have been a likely sucess, if they had enough people to buy them. And they could get them. I'm hoping they have a deal with the dome that if they sell the entirety of tickets, they can add more to whats availible. I cant go, too far, but I will be going to a house show over this end if I'm lucky.

[Jack-Hammer]

Originally Posted by backwardsrko

You all do know that they still have 3 months to pull some magic and draw sales. I swear! Is everyone in here a little kid?

http://www.ticketmaster.com/seatingchart/98415/46582

There's a link to the seating chart that TNA will be going by for the event. They aren't even going to attempt to sell a lot of tickets. You can't blame people for thinking that it's ludicrous that TNA is playing in a venue that can potentially hold over 70,000 people but are only trying to sell 4,000 tickets. Those areas highlighted in red & blue are the only spots available for ticket purchase.

[braveh]

I believe that the city or county is miserable because of that huge arena and they can't get any events to the arena because of other competing arenas in Texas. TNA probably got it for free or were paid to host the event there.

[itssoeasy123]

TNA booking the Alamodome has to be one of the stupidest decision they have ever made. I mean, seriously, what's the use of a dome of 70,000 is your only going to fill up 4,000 of it? It's beyond retarded.

What does it do for TNA? What does it prove, that they can't fill half a dome? It's ridiculous and just goes to show you that this company has no clue what their doing.

"Hey, we haven't gotten 10,000 people yet for a show. Let's book a 70,000 seat arena. Than were make it down to 4000." Good idea, brother!"

[UrUp]

I'll be surprised if this isn't the most attended PPV in TNA history, especially if the rumors are true that TNA will be bringing in AAA talent for the event.

For starters, Slammiversary, which was also held in Texas, drew around 5500-6000 earlier this year, so it's safe to say there is a TNA fan base in the area.

The difference with this show is that it's much closer to the Mexican border and I'd assume San Antonio has a large Mexican community. For the past couple years, the Mexican/AAA audience has become very familiar with TNA as they've done an invasion angle down there and names like Jarrett, Abyss, Angle, RVD and company have been regularly featured in AAA PPV's that normally draw between 10 and 20k+.

Back in 1997, when the Royal Rumble was held in the Alamodome it drew an audience of 60k+ fans, 40,000 more fans then any other Royal Rumble attendance. I have to assume that number is in part due too WWE involving mexican talent such as Mil Mascaras, Cibernetico, Blue Demon Jr, etc. in about 1/3 of the card. I fully expect TNA to do something like this at Lockdown using AAA talent and when you combine the TNA/AAA fan bases, it's not a stretch to think TNA will easily do 5k and beyond in San Antonio.