AJ Styles Comments on WWE SummerSlam 2026 Ticket Sales Concerns

AJ Styles has weighed in on the ongoing discussion surrounding WWE SummerSlam 2026 ticket sales.

This year’s two-night SummerSlam pay-per-view event is set for August 1 and 2 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Despite featuring some of WWE’s biggest matches of the year, recent reports have raised concerns about the event’s ticket sales performance.

During a recent episode of his “The Phenomenally Retro” podcast, Styles addressed the conversation about the event’s sales. He remarked,

“Well, it doesn’t sound like they’re doing very well. But it is 20,000 people. That is a lot as well, to have a two-day event where 20,000 people are coming. But again, it is not a sellout. So is this being successful? I don’t know. I mean, I’m sure they’re going to make money on this regardless, or they wouldn’t be doing it or is it something that they’re trying out and go, ‘Okay, we can run an arena.’ The fact that the arenas usually only go for about what, 12,000, 14,000, something around in there, so they’re still able to fit more people in the stadium. So they are doing better than an arena show. But what do you want to get out of it? Is it one of those things where perception is reality, and we want that to be the case here. Or is it all about, which I know the answer to this, the money and having a two-day event where it’s not sold out, but there are 20,000 people there each day, and they’ll probably pick up at least another 5,000 to 10,000 that’s my guess.”

He added, “I don’t know how much the tickets are, but they haven’t been known to be cheap. It’s not one of those things where even the nosebleeds are a little expensive. So I think that might have something to do with it. I could be wrong. I would think that big shows like this, you definitely have your tiers of where you’re going to sit and how much they are. But I would say, when you get the nosebleeds, let’s make them freaking cheap, dirt cheap. Sell a bunch of those. Why not? Let’s sell all these seats we can and maybe that’s something as we get closer that’ll happen. Who knows? I mean, it’s only two weeks away. I don’t know, man. I don’t know. Maybe this is a run to see how, you know, it’s not WrestleMania so let’s see how SummerSlam is going to, if SummerSlam is successful, that means we make the other two big pay-per-views to two-day events. So I don’t know how this is going to work out. I don’t know if it’s just a trial run or something like that. I’m a big fan of one-day kind of stuff. But then again, WrestleMania seems to do okay and SummerSlam being two days, we’re going to find out.”

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