Ditto.
It will be interesting to see if they can build on the whole concept. The point of the old studio wrestling shows was to give you a tease so you would show up at the arenas to see "the big matches". It worked beautifully - every regional promotion had a circuit, had a huge number of towns and cities they would run regularly. Jim Cornette's Midnight Express Scrapbook gives amazing insight into how the territories worked. Being obsessive compulsive, he kept records of nearly every card they worked including what the gate was. From that, you can get a rough estimate of the crowds. They worked in three major promotions - Mid South Wrestling, World Class Championship Wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions.
In the smaller towns (and they were running some total backwaters) the crowds could be anywhere from 500 to 2,000. But they would run big arenas in the big cities - often five figure attendances and particularly hot feuds (such as Bill Watts' Last Stampede) saw sell out after sell out. The WWF, Crockett, WCWW, AWA and Mid South all pulled crowds greater than 20,000 in 1985-6 on the basis of this model.
So it would be great if they do get to the point where they can start a regular touring circuit.
