>>13033578>every wrestling show papers and always hasyeah I know anon I was a seat filler at a Raw event in 2006 because my friend worked at the arena and WWE does it every time they come to town for production reasons. There were probably like 40 or so of us. Think the show was nearly sold out. We went through the locker room entrance an got instructions to just watch the show and if someone near the screen left while the show was going on they'd tell one of the seat fillers to fill that seat. That said I don't remember them having anyone move and I live in Pittsburgh and Sterling James Keenan (now Corey Graves) was one of the seat fillers too. He wrestled in local fed IWC at the time and I remember he was sitting with the IWC announcer, Chuck something or other and IWC owner Norm Conners was also with them. So it seemed to be mostly people with connections who got the free tickets.
but you're talking about papering several sections that can be avoided from being shown on camera quite easily because why? how will that help anyone's bottom line and how wouldn't that result in many of the fans who post online and read sheets (aka prob at least 50% of the AEW audience) not buying a ticket because they'll figure out how AEW distributes the free ones instead?
At this point Tony should run smaller venues but I don't think his pride will let him since he's already running second rate arenas compared to WWE and can't even get them half full quite often.
