This morning, Ticketmaster notified ticketholders of the December 7 AEW Collision show at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, that the show had been canceled and that they would receive a refund:
“Unfortunately, the Event Organizer has had to cancel your event. You don’t need to do a thing. We’ll issue a refund to the original method of payment used attime of purchase, as soon as funds are received from the Event Organizer. It should appear on your account within 14-21 days.”
This isn’t entirely uncommon, as shows are canceled for many reasons.
Whether related to the cancellation or not, ticket sales for the AEW Collision show were slow. WrestleTix estimated that 1,032 tickets would be distributed, with an arena setup for 2,517. AEW had put over 4,000 in the building in August 2023 for an episode of Dynamite.
It wasn’t the cancellation of this AEW Collision show that piqued my interest in writing this piece but rather the rest of the 2024 calendar for AEW—and the 2025 calendar, for that matter.
Earlier this year, Voices of Wrestling contributor Griffin and I started charting and cataloging AEW’s schedule, citing a market inefficiency in a single place where AEW’s upcoming shows and announced matches could be found. The page is getting a lot of traffic (and hey, if you are planning on buying tickets to an upcoming AEW show, please use that page to do so).
Creating and maintaining this page made us hyperfocus on upcoming AEW shows, announcements, etc.
A few weeks ago, Griffin told me that AEW doesn’t have a single television taping or show on its calendar after the December 12 AEW Collision show at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri.
That’s odd. They’re probably just crossing some ts and dotting some is, and announcements on the rest of their year will come shortly.
Weeks later, it’s still true.
Read the full piece at https://www.patreon.com/posts/aews-mysterious-116004991
