According to PWInsider.com and WWE’s corporate site, here are updated PPV buyrate numbers:
New Year’s Revolution: 300,000
Survivor Series: 375,000
Taboo Tuesday (rumored to become Cyber Sunday this year): 220,000 buys
Additionally, the Wrestling Observer newsletter reports that Summerslam (headlined by Shawn Michaels vs. Hulk Hogan) numbers have gone up to 640,000 from earlier estimates of 534,000. According to Meltzer, this bump is in part due to international PPV figures coming in later (with the recent trend of good numbers due to PPV now being available in international markets that didn’t always have access to them). Armageddon featuring the Taker/Orton Hell in a Cell has put up preliminary numbers of 290,000, which would put it on track to e the best Smackdown-only show since July 2003’s event that was headlined by Vince McMahon vs. Zach Gowen and Kurt Angle vs. Big Show vs. Brock Lesnar at the height of their WWE Title feud.
For comparison, TNA’s PPVs have been staying at the 35,000 mark, which is similar to what they were doing when on Fox Sports Net, although the Final Resolution PPV, was the company’s best yet, reaching approx. 40,000.
