A Women’s Volleyball Game in Nebraska Gives Both WWE & AEW a Harsh Reality Check

A college sporting event breezed past to break a world record a week after AEW All In was praised for their tickets sold. In doing so, this has stumped AEW. More so, WWE as well, who were already being dunked on by ‘the biggest event in wrestling history’.

Tony Khan and Vince McMahon have been in a battle ever since 2019, to outsell the other, with Khan finally getting to hold the mantle over McMahon. Despite ticket sales improving for WWE since Triple H took over, AEW still brought in a record audience for All In. However, a women’s college volleyball match zoomed past with a staggering amount of ticket sales, beating both WWE and AEW.

Who exactly beat both AEW and WWE in ticket sales?

Much like AEW and WWE, the volleyball teams of Nebraska and Wisconsin have been in a constant battle to outsell the other, with Wisconsin recently stealing a record from Nebraska last year. In retaliation, Nebraska Volleyball announced that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s team the Nebraska Cornhuskers would take on the Omaha Mavericks.

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They made a whole day out of it, calling it ‘Volleyball Day’ and selling tickets to two matches, including Cornhuskers vs. Mavericks, as well as shifting to a stadium with a capacity of over 90,000 people. Compared to All In’s 81,035 ticket sales, the Nebraskan all-women’s team saw a whopping 92,003 in attendance.

In a stunning display, the Nebraskan team managed to not only outsell their intended competitor but also completely overshadow AEW All In ticket sales and by extension overshadow WrestleMania within just three days of tickets going public back in April.

Battling since AEW’s inception, the two are now left stumped

The two wrestling giants have been battling it out for PPV sales. Especially since Khan came out of left field with AEW in 2019. Only four years in the industry, AEW has grown significantly in order to become a decent rival to WWE, going so far as to steal wrestling legends like CM Punk, Chris Jericho, and Matt Hardy from their roster.

However, WWE has had many records broken themselves as a pro wrestling company. With history on their side, WWE has had several editions of WrestleMania break over 75,000 views. Most notably, WrestleMania 32, in 2016, had a purported 101,763 in attendance. However, chances are that these numbers are inflated, with some reporting that the actual attendance was around 80,000. The closest to this was SummerSlam 1992, where the event had 78,927 in attendance. So while AEW has had its share of glory with All In, WWE continues to dominate in numbers throughout history.

Do you think WWE could take over with better ticket sales than both AEW and a college volleyball team?

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