a lot of people were standing in the aisles and within the concourses. Read more

Interesting thought, but where would one even look? Read more

Did it seem like any fans were let in to fill standing room without tickets? Read more

That was a big part of why, in the hype segments, Gene Okerlund was always talking about “pay-per-view capability.” Plus, at the time, if you didn’t have HBO or Showtime, you probably didn’t have any need for a converter box, so you needed to go to the cable company’s walk-in center to rent one JUST for the PPV. Read more

Yes, he means in terms of the company record. Read more

Can’t believe I forgot to mention this because I know it was on my mind throughout the process, but a friend just reminded me after reading the article: Read more

Well, no. There’s been reporting that it did a few hundred more than the Meltzer WM3 number. See comments above for more. Read more

That’s what I thought Dave Meltzer had always reported, but I just pulled up the article where WWE gave him the stadium show records and it has SummerSlam ‘92 as “about 75,000" for total attendance and the paid attendance section doesn’t mention that show. Just asked him on Twitter if it’s a typo, will follow up if he… Read more

There’s an Andre slams compilation on YouTube, but it was uploaded several years before the Harley Race match (which is great, by the way) finally showed up:

...how did Bischoff come up? Because he was close with Bresloff? Read more

Hogan’s manager at the time was Freddie Blassie and I can totally picture him saying that. Read more

And if the Silverdome capacity was worked, since it was the biggest dome and one of the biggest stadiums period of its time, were the other dome’s capacities worked upwards by 12%? Read more

Closed circuit sold about 450,000 tickets and about 400,000 homes bought the pay-per-view broadcast. The PPV figure was good enough for a whopping 9% of the homes with PPV capabilities at the time. PPV access exploded in the next couple years, so on a percentage/buy rate basis, no wrestling PPV has come close since. Read more

Meltzer has noted that when he was getting numbers from the major promotions during the Monday Night War, legit sellouts for non televised events with no staging were often less than the arena’s listed fixed seat capacity, which should be impossible. He’s gone with the arenas working their capacities as the reason,… Read more

Whoops, typo. Second number should read 72,000+. Read more

For whatever it’s worth: Read more

From TFA: Read more

That was taking a drop toehold into the ropes, right? The Stun Gun and Hot Shot give plenty of time for the wrestler to get his hands out. Plus Perrito was a case of attrition over the years breaking down his neck, yes. Read more

I’ve honestly never heard of anyone getting injured with any variation of the Stun Gun or Hot Shot, though. Not once. Read more

Dodd and Garcia were both terrible, but Andy Foster is one of the good ones. Read more