Ticket Demand For John Cena's Final Match Suggests WWE Should Have Held It Elsewhere

The pre-sale for December's Saturday Night's Main Event went live on Wednesday, and it's likely safe to assume that within minutes of going live, all the tickets had been snapped up. It's probably safe to assume that, as reports indicate 60,000 people were waiting in the pre-sale queue, and unfortunately, there were not 60,000 tickets available.

Cena's last match will take place at Washington DC's Capital One Arena, a venue that has a maximum capacity of a little more than 20,000. That means there were at least three times as many people in the virtual queue for SNME tickets as there were tickets available. That begs the question, why didn't WWE hold something as significant as Cena's last match in a bigger venue?

Should WWE Have Held Cena's Last Match In A Bigger Venue?

Fans who might have liked to be there have pointed to the 60,000-person queue as evidence that Cena's final match will be a big enough event that it could have sold out a stadium. Again, this isn't just how many people signed up for pre-sale tickets. There were 60,000 people actively waiting in line to buy tickets to be among those in attendance for Cena's final match.

Even if it were in an even bigger stadium, the tickets would have still gone on general sale later this week, at which point even more fans could have picked them up. I'm assuming it's probably too late to change that now, with less than two months to go until the big day. You're also almost certainly out of luck if you were planning to grab tickets when they went on general sale. I can only imagine that general sale plans have been canceled.

The most surprising part of all this is how much fans have been willing to pay to be in attendance for Cena's last match. The event is the latest in a series of many WWE shows to be called out for their greatly inflated ticket prices, but it seems people are still willing to pay those prices for certain events. It comes in the wake of research that showed front row tickets to WrestleMania have increased by 2000 percent in 12 years.