Report: AEW Planning To Hold Tapings At Smaller Venues

All Elite Wrestling are planning to hold future tapings of AEW Dynamite and Collision at smaller venues, according to a report from Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live. The promotion has yet to make the change, though, due to logistical issues.

"I'm gonna be kind of vague but it's happening. I just don't know all the technical details. I have been told that there is headway being made in running smaller buildings. Now you hear that and think, why does headway need to be made? Just book smaller buildings. Well apparently, there actually was a logistical reason why they were running a lot of larger buildings and it had to do with the set and in particular, the lighting rig. There was something that they had in their set that was basically too large and heavy to get into smaller buildings and so they have been working on retooling it so they can actually get their set into smaller buildings," Alvarez said.

"So I think as the year 2025 kind of starts coming in, they've been talking about different ideas for production and everything like that. I think we're going to finally get the move. There are gonna be smaller buildings. They're gonna work on some production and hopefully, that will be a positive in terms of how the show looks, sounds. etc. on television. And they will save a lot of money."

All Elite Wrestling attendances have struggled throughout 2024, especially for tapings of Dynamite and Collision, and the shows often take place in half-empty arenas. The promotion has had some success in running smaller venues already this year and the AEW Collision residency in Arlington, Texas was praised for having a hot crowd.

AEW will run an iconic smaller venue in the Hammerstein Ballroom on December 21, according to reports.

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