Brett Lauderdale talks business.
Game Changer Wrestling held The Wrld on GCW at the Hammerstein Ballroom in January 2022, and the show sold out as it drew over 2,000 fans. GCW will return to the Hammerstein Ballroom on January 19th, as they will hold The People vs. GCW.
Speaking on Game Changer Weekly, GCW promoter Brett Lauderdale discussed GCW's return to the Hammerstein Ballroom and highlighted the ticket sales.
“The numbers today, whether one person watches this show on Triller or not, the numbers are, they’re okay. I never talk business or real numbers, but I can tell you, the gate of this show, the ticket sales, I know everybody thinks, ‘Oh, they gave away X amount of tickets,’ there was a couple of tickets given away, but I can tell you that the gate for this show is in six figures, there’s over $100,00 worth of tickets sold, which is more than any independent wrestling show will sell this year, next year, last year, the year before, five years from now, the year after. So will this show be as successful as 2021 from a business standpoint? No because that would be virtually impossible, but I can tell you this is a history-making show in its own right." Lauderdale said.
Lauderdale then noted that running the Hammerstein Ballroom again wouldn’t be the same as the first time, but he felt like they needed a challenge, and he wanted to see where they were at.
Fightful will have coverage of The People vs. GCW as it airs on January 19th.
