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Tony Khan has revealed details on the upcoming Owen Hart Cup tournament.

On Wednesday’s Dynamite, Khan announced that the “opening ceremonies” of the Owen Hart Cup tournament will begin at Double or Nothing on May 28. The tournament itself will be held in Canada, and matches will be held at AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Forbidden Door event on June 25. The tournament finals will take place in Calgary on July 15, which is currently labeled as a House Rules show at the Saddledome.

.@TonyKhan with BIG NEWS about the 2023 Owen Hart Cup Tournament!#AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/oq6jqjfsFZ

— AEW on TV (@AEWonTV) April 27, 2023

The first Owen Hart Cup tournaments, one for men and one for women, took place last year in conjuction with Dr. Martha Hart and the Owen Hart Foundation. Those tournaments featured Adam Cole defeating Samoa Joe and Britt Baker defeating Ruby Soho in the finals to become the first-ever tournament winners.

AEW previously announced a tour of Canada which will begin at Forbidden Door in Toronto, and will run through July 15.

With WrestleMania coming up in Southern California, it will be the biggest money week in company history from a live show perspective, and likely with whatever Peacock pays for WrestleMania rights, plus the huge increase in sponsorships that WWE has been getting for big shows, it will be record-setting in that realm as well.

For the WWE events the 3/31 Smackdown and Hall of Fame event at the Crypto.com Arena, they had 14,393 tickets out and are 838 tickets shy of sellout, so they will sell out.

Stand & Deliver with a 9 a.m. start time on 4/1 has 6,678 tickets out in the same building, which is far above last year in Dallas, although there have been WrestleMania week NXT shows that have done much better. From 2015 to 2019, the WrestleMania NXT big event over the weekend sold out but it has not done so since 2019 and this year will be well above last year but far from a sellout.

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