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WWE announced Monday that Saturday’s SummerSlam at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas was both the highest grossing and most viewed SummerSlam event in company history.

The announced sellout of 51,326 is now the record holder for both indoor attendance and gate revenue in the event’s 33-year history and was more than 4x the gate revenue of the 2019 event at Toronto’s ScotiaBank Arena. That show drew 16,904 and was headlined by Seth Rollins regaining the Universal title from Brock Lesnar.

WWE did not release the actual gate number.

Peacock and WWE Network numbers were up 55% over last year’s show and 29% over the 2019 show. They didn’t give the total viewership but said it was a “seven-figure global audience.”

Merchandise sales were up 155% over 2019’s SummerSlam while sponsorship was up 18% over last year and 25% over 2019.

Lesnar’s return was viewed more than four million times on WWE’s Instagram account, their highest of all time. It beat out another recent surprise return: John Cena at Money in the Bank.

Ric Flair appeared as the manager of Andrade, and put Konnan in the figure four leglock at AAA’s TripleMania show on 8/14 at Arena Ciudad in Mexico City.

Kenny Omega retained the AAA Mega heavyweight title over Andrade while Psycho Clown retained his mask in the main event over Rey Escorpion and the two shook hands to end their grudge match program with Escorpion getting his head shaved.

The show had other headlines, including Deonna Purrazzo becoming both the Impact and AAA women’s champion in a title vs. title match with Faby Apache, and not so surprising arrival of the New Generation Dinamitas, days after CMLL announced they were no longer with the promotion and were stripping them of their titles.

The Dinamitas arrived after the second match, the Copa Bardahl Royal Rumble style match. They played an updated version of the ELP classic “Touch and Go,” the same song from CMLL and the song the Original Dinamitas used dating back at least 30 years. When they came out, on the screen they were called the New Generation Dinamitas and the names used were Cuatrero & Sanson & Forastero, the same names they had used since becoming stars in CMLL. As it turns out they will be able to keep their names because they filed for ownership of the names in 2017.

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