August 27, 2023 News and Notes

• So far, Wrexham's first professional season back has been a bit of a bumpy one.
• Through five rounds, only one team has scored more than they have in League Two (Swindon Town has 15 goals in four games, Wrexham, 14 in 5).
• The problem?  They've also given up 14 goals, the most in League Two, two over Doncaster Rovers, four over anyone else.
• They have one win in five games, but at least they drew three of the four others, and sit 16th in the 24-team league.
• Today is billed in the UK as the biggest professional wrestling event in history -- and this might not be that much of an exaggeration.  AEW is having it's first overseas pay-per-view, All Out London, and has nearly sold out Wembley Stadium, in a tickets-sold number which will rival any Wrestlemania night, and may beat them all.
• As of latest report, August 19, the event has, in fact, surpassed all WWE single-day event totals of tickets sold.  The record, as best people can know, was Wrestlemania 32 in Dallas, where, though WWE claimed a crowd of over 100,000, the number of tickets sold was about 80,700.
• This is not an uncommon ploy.  WWE claimed 93,173 for Wrestlemania 3, but most people who've done research believe only about 77,000 tickets were actually sold for the event.
• As of August 19, All In London has sold 80,846.
• The reports have become spottier, because of production changes and difficulties in figuring out corporate luxury boxes, but the best guess they have is, as of yesterday, the crowd has passed 81,000 sold tickets.
• The event is apparently NOT a sell-out.  About 2,000 tickets appear to remain.
• 81,035 was the announced PAID attendance, and AEW claims a world record for a single-night professional wrestling event in paid attendance.
  
• And a CM Punk altercation.  It appears that "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry stepped to CM Punk just outside of view of the fans, got choked down, and legit thrown out of the stadium by Tony Khan. 
• Arizona State will not be going to a bowl this season.  Violations under Herm Edwards when he played to win more than just the game. 
• El Segundo, CA is the World Champion of Little League baseball -- 6-5 win over Curacao in the Final, walk-off homerun by Louis Lappe.