WWE Announces Live Attendance For SummerSlam 2023, Sheamus Complains About TV Time
WWE has announced the live attendance for Saturday night’s SummerSlam 2023 pay-per-view event.
SummerSlam boasts an announced attendance of 59,194 people. The event is being held at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
WrestleTix previously reported that WWE had sold 50,608 tickets for the event, with 1,080 tickets still available. Of course, WWE is known to exaggerate their attendance numbers.
You can check out the official announcement below:
59,194 members of the WWE Universe are here at @fordfield in Detroit for #SummerSlam! pic.twitter.com/oaT07X3TS3
— WWE (@WWE) August 6, 2023
During Saturday night’s WWE SummerSlam 2023 pay-per-view event, Sheamus competed in the Slim Jim Battle Royal and he was the last one to be eliminated by LA Knight, who won the match.
In an interview with the Daily Mail ahead of SummerSlam, Sheamus discussed Roman Reigns’s spot as the top box office draw of WWE, other talents on the roster looking to get Bloodline-like own opportunities, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On Roman Reigns wrestling only about five times a year: “Yeah, I mean he has a luxury of wrestling five times a year. You know what I mean? That makes a big star… let’s be honest, before he went away with COVID, people didn’t give a s**t about him. He was the big baby face who was wrestling Goldberg and nobody really cared. I think in the same way it benefited me to come back and wrestle in that empty arena at Thunderdome where people got to see how physical I really can be and allowed me to have that more freedom and settle into my own skin and just say: ‘Screw it, I’m going to go out there and have fun, do what i’m gonna do.’ In the same sense it benefitted him, because he was at a point where it was forced down people’s throats and he got to go away and come back in this different character.”
On the exorbitant amount of TV time The Bloodline storyline gets in WWE: “Obviously there’s the luxury of getting all the storyline time and everything. I feel like he’s made the most of the opportunity he’s had, but I feel like there’s guys on the roster begging for that amount of time to tell their own stories and that’s one of the only things that’s going. The rest of the roster needs story time too. With MSG [Madison Square Garden] a couple of weeks ago, they went 20 minutes over. So me and Theory had two segs which ended up turning into three small segs on the floor, you know, so that’s tough as well to go out and do that. It’s definitely benefited him a lot and Heyman and the story they have to tell, all within that family and stuff, but as I said there’s plenty of other people on the roster that could do with story time as well. I’m not taking anything away from him, I’m just saying.”
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