----pwinsider.com’s Mike Johnson is reporting that there is a press conference scheduled for tomorrow at 11 AM at the Fed Ex Forum to officially announce the match the Jerry Lawler vs Hulk Hogan bout. Johnson also reported that Hogan and Lawler are both scheduled to be in attendance. I just talked with a FedEx Forum representative, who stated there will be a press conference tomorrow morning between 11 AM and Noon. But, she said she believed that Hulk Hogan will NOT be at the event and it will only be Corey Maclin and Jerry Lawler.
----Tickets will be on sale for the event starting at 10:00 AM at the box office at the FedEx Forum or you may buy them at Ticketmaster locations or online at http://www.ticketmaster.com/. Ticket prices are $62, $47, $37 and $22. If you buy them from Ticketmaster, there is a $6.75 “Convenience Charge”. Most tickets will be bought from Ticketmaster or online, so the average ticket price for this event is going to be a whopping $47.25.
----This group’s biggest crowd has been the August 28,2004 “Throwback Night II” show at the Mid-South Coliseum drawing 5,000 fans with a gate I believe in the $60,000 range. Tickets for this show being an average of $47.50, they will only have to draw about 1,300 fans to top that record. My prediction of 3000 on the low end would give this promotion a $141,750 gate. This could be the biggest gate EVER for Memphis for wrestling for a local promotion.
