Last Saturday’s Death Before Dishonor event was the second Ring of Honor pay-per-view event to be presented by AEW President Tony Khan.
In the latest issue of the Wrestling Observer newsletter, Dave Meltzer reported that initial estimates show the event made 36,100 PPV purchases, consisting of 27,000 digital and 9,100 from television.
In April, PPV purchases for ROH Supercard of Honor were “about 15,500 and 3,700, respectively.” Death Before Dishonor was up 132 percent and 178 percent from the April event.
Khan promoted the show more on AEW television, and it was held on a Saturday night with no major wrestling competition, unlike Supercard of Honor, which was held on a Friday night over WrestleMania weekend.
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Of the fans who bought the April show, 38.5 percent (about 7,400) bought the earlier AEW PPV, Revolution. That AEW PPV event made just over 170,000 purchases. Before Death Before Dishonor, 67.4 percent of buyers (estimated at 24,300) had purchased Forbidden Door and 68.2 percent (24,600) had Double or Nothing.
Death Before Dishonor attracted 3,100 fans and got paid 2,900 at the Paul Tsongas Center, the fourth largest audience in history for ROH, just behind the 2019 Madison Square Garden sale with NJPW, a show in New Orleans headlined by Kenny Omega vs. Cody Rhodes, and a show in Lakeland, FL where The Young Bucks vs. Hardys’s main event was in a ladder match.
The difference between those shows and Death Before Dishonor is that those shows were held over the WrestleMania weekend.
Khan has yet to announce the next big ROH show, but the belief is that he’s still working hard to try and get ROH a weekly TV deal.
