Has anyone ever attended a TNA Pay-Per-View? (Looking for experience)

[Gillbob316]

I come from a family of both Florida Fans and Wrestling fans, so whenever we go down for a trip, we attend TNA tapings if they're happening. (Going to Florida was actually how my family discovered TNA a few years ago, when they were still fairly small, and before they were broadcasting on Spike.)

That said, our upcoming trip next week will be the first one that actually has a TNA PPV falling in it, and we'd love to go. Very excited. We've missed a couple PPVs by as much as a week before, which was a bummer, glad we're actually making this one.

That said, having never been to a PPV, I'm trying to get a feel for what kind of crowd we should expect, and how early we should show up to get decent (or any) seats?

We've been to about a half dozen regular impact tapings before and never had trouble getting in. Even when we showed up late, we managed to get crappy seats. (We've been in the nosebleeds for some tapings before and even those aren't too bad, since its such a small arena. But I'd prefer decent ones.)

Anyway, Are PPV tapings comparable, or should I expect more of a crowd and show up real early?

I personally wouldn't mind showing up an hour or two early, but 2 out of 6 members of our Florida party are, shall we say, less than enthusiastic about professional wrestling. They'll go, but I don't think they'd like the idea of waiting an incredibly long time to do so. Soooooo... I'd like to wait as little as possible, while still ensuring I get a seat. Get me?

Anyone have any insight?

PS. I'd assume it's free right? Since its at the impact zone and its listed on universalorlando.com's schedule with no mention of any fees?

 

[yolkie]

Last year in March we went to a PPV - it was quite busy and we didn't manage to get seats but we did get to stand ringside and were on camera quite a lot! (was recorded from bravo for us for when we got back).

I'd say you need to get there as early as possible (never been to a regular taping so wouldnt know the queue times) if you want to get a seat, we thought we got there quite early but we only just made it in really. That said though, having not attended regular shows, I couldn't advise on the difference in waiting, just that we thought we got there early enough for a seat and we were wrong. As we were ringside though, that was all the better for us, but as your party aren't keen in the first place.. I dunno.

And yerrr it's free!

Hopefully someone will have been to both and will be able to give you a more definite answer