Vengeance did about ~260000 buys (WWECorpBiz @ shareholder.com) That’s got to be disappionting, because they built HBK/HHH HitC like crazy and it didn’t do much better than Eddie/JBL I. Which makes you wonder what Eddie/JBL II.
That number for June is going to jump in the next couple weeks, because it’ll be the first month with two PPVs in it. Keep that in mind when trying to figure out the GAB buyrate: to do as well as they did with the last SD! PPV, they’ll have to end up with ~475000 buys. They could total a little bit less than that and still end up with the best June since they’ve started this chart, though I’d presume the profit would be lower (cost of running 2 PPVs > cost of running 1 PPV).
One more thought: since last year’s SummerSlam
WWE SummerSlam ’03 460
WWE Survivor Series ’03 460
WWE Royal Rumble ’04 575
WWE WM XX 875
RAW Unforgiven ’03 350
SD! No Mercy ’03 275
RAW Armageddon ’03 260
SD! No Way Out ’04 275
RAW Backlash ’04 285
SD! Judgment Day ’04 200
RAW Bad Blood ’04 260
Only one split PPV has been above 300 buys (Goldberg vs HHH), and no since it. Not one combined PPV has been below 450.