WWE announces house show in same city, on same day as AEW Worlds End

There will be a lot of live wrestling in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, December 28, 2024.

Last night’s SmackDown took place at the Kia Center, home of the Orlando Magic, and according to those in attendance, WWE announced they will be returning to the venue on December 28 as part of its Holiday Tour.

AEW Worlds End will take place on the same day a little over 15 miles down the road at Addition Financial Arena on the campus of the University of Central Florida.

@MrJacobCohen on X posted the following:

There it is

WWE is officially running a house show in Orlando (with tickets going on sale tonight) head to head with AEW World’s End approximately 20 minutes down the street at Addition Financial Arena pic.twitter.com/ePGXqv8fVZ

— Jacob Cohen (@MrJacobCohen) August 17, 2024

Our own Mike Sempervive offered the following thoughts on the news:

I can appreciate the pettiness, but WWE running a house show head-up with World's End also seems extremely masturbatory.

— Fidel Sasstro (@Sempervive) August 17, 2024

WWE SmackDown on Friday had over 13,500 fans in attendance. WrestleTix noted on X that WWE kept opening new sections for the show and the tickets kept selling out.

“They keep adding seats and selling them out. There’s a great chance this one will exceed 14,500 with people in suites,” WrestleTix wrote.

“This show had one of the best US crowds of the entire year,” our own Bryan Alvarez wrote in his WWE SmackDown report about the live crowd in Orlando last night.