So TNA was scheduled today at 7pm to release tickets into the public. One of three cities to have tickets go on sale was going to be Cleveland. My hometown. So at 6:30 I start googling where to buy tickets from. Ticketmaster? Seatgeek? The venue's own website? TNA's website?
And in googling this, I have trouble getting the answer. So I go on the venue's website, go to their calander, and the event isn't listed for mid-september.
Ok.
Go to TNA's website. Couldn't find anything with Cleveland. Do a google search "TNA Cleveland September 2024". First result is a TNA page that says "Events". I click it, scroll through, still don't see Cleveland as a listed date.
Come to find out that they moved the Cleveland show (Victory road on a Friday, followed by Impact tapings on a saturday) to somewhere in Texas.
WHAT??? You've been hyping this day as the first mega sale where you release 3 different sets of tickets for months now! Then day of, you switch one of the 3 cities, that was scheduled to have a PPV???
The venue still lists those days as free. Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse lists those days as free (this is the venue that AEW and WWE come to when they come through town). Wolstein Center lists no upcoming events (This is the venue that AEW usually uses when it comes to town).
I can't think of any reason it would have changed. The venue is great for production purposes. It takes a reletively small space, and makes it seem like a huge cavern of fans. It would be perfect for TNAs purposes.
I don't see any competing shows in September. We have Summerslam/Smackdown in early August, but this would have been 6 weeks later, and was well known long before they made their announcement that TNA would be coming to Cleveland.
I can't figure out any reason this got moved.
I heard a rumor that AEW was coming to Cleveland that week, but I just checked their website, and the only week that's possible would be the 4th week of September, which they haven't announced where Dynamite/Collision will take place yet. Actually, with how bad AEW ticket sales are, this venue that TNA would have used would be kind of decent for AEW. Only problem is, it's not an arena shape. It's a theatre shape. So you wouldn't have those wrap around digital banners. You wouldn't have a 360 surrounding of fans. Unless you want to make seating on the stage, like ECW did in the 90s in a different theater building.
I'm out of ideas, and just frustrated that I was going to get to go to a wrestling show....and a PPV at that, plus another day of TV tapings.....and now it's not happening. No explaination.
Edit: Now I'm extra sad! Just found out Garganos pizza burned down. For those that don't know, Garganos pizza is a real pizza place thats been around for 50 years it's Johney Garganos dads pizza place. You may remember it as having been featured on an episode of NXT when Adam Cole visited Johney Garganos dad.
It was right across the street from Metro Hospital, which is where I get my cancer treatments. I'd get done, and grab a slice of pizza. Not the best ever pizza, but it was good. And it was cool to be eating pizza in a place that had wrestling memorbilia all over the walls.
Today is a sad day for Cleveland wrestling fans...