I Tried the WWE Ringsider VIP Package
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
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0:00 Welcome
1:36 VIP Options
3:03 Price
4:44 Emails
6:34 Arriving
10:21 The Seats
12:46 End of Show
14:33 The Merch
21:46 Subscribe!
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By any chance did you go backstage give me any wrestlers before the show just asking thanks
Showed my wife who has never watched wrestling your channel and your videos....ive been watching wrestling for nearly 30 years and after ur video about you starting to watch she began watching....she weekly now watches every show and luckily i can answer any questions she has due to my experience with the product.
That is so awesome!!!
This is why they need to bring back the elevated stage like in the 2010s because you can actually see the wrestlers no matter what seat you’re jn
Congrats on all the success on the channel. There’s a lot of people looking for this exact information in regards to these WWE events 💪
Thank you!
I love that you are making content that you yourself would be looking for in such a situation and its just awesome to give back to the community you are a part of.
The dog cam is funny😭
He's too good to look away from
made me subscribe lol
Not wrong about that pre-show buzz. I used to go to every NXT taping from like 2013-2015 and this is when NXT was getting HOT and the crowd pre-show was always just ready. My first ever live match was Sami Zayn's WWE Debut. Back when Neville and Bo Dallas were tearing it down for the NXT title. WWE Live is just something else.
Love these type of videos! I did the vip experience back in 2018 at a house show, went backstage (saw Jey and Corbin), walked down ramp and got pics taken ringside, and got front row seats near the entrance ramp
My then roommate flew from Germany all the way to New York with 5th or 6th row seats for the 25years of raw special episode (couple grand gone, just like that). He also got to keep the seats but getting them shipped back home was a pain.
im legit obsessed with this channel, im a longtime wwe fan but have never been to a show bc i live in australia and hearing all of this is so cool especially since ur a newer fan, glad you like wrestling and im glad ur sharing ur love for it
Thank you. That means a lot!
@@Dporticus keep up the good work dude
Another banger!! i had second row seats at an NXT house show here in Vancouver in 2017, but for main roster, four rows up on the end of the stage just before the aisleway, perfect for pictures!
I totally understand your view. I had a first time scare too cuz when i was at my first show as a kid, i had to call my mom from ringside to tell her to bring my ticket to the merch stand. They wouldnt let me get to my ringside seat without my ticket in hand. Everything else youre saying sounds like normal procedure, from the sounds of your experience.
This video definitely peaked my interest, so I subscribed! I've never experienced the VIP with WWE, but it was nice to hear your story. Plus I go around the Ohio area alot for WWE/AEW events and various indy shows. Thanks for sharing your story and great video 👍
Thank you!
I watched one of your previous videos, and now I'm going to a house show, my first live wwe event. I was worried it was going to not have big names but you set my mind at ease. Thanks.
Hell yea! Hope you have a great time
I got ringsider last year for smackdown row 2 was a great show this year I’m getting ringsider row 3 for when I go to monday night raw on september 9th in Calgary Canada can’t wait, great video!!
The Walk the Aisle package gets you on the floor inside the rail before the show and you get to get a picture on the ring steps. Definitely recommend. I'm doing the meet and greet package in June. Pumped to see Cody!!
That sounds awesome! Getting the seats along the entrance is on my bucket list 😆
Last year I sat 2nd row at a live event and done the superstar experience package. I got a signed mini replica blue universal championship (case was signed) by Rhea, Dom, Damian. Also got to have a photo taken on the ramp before walking down it where I then had a photo taken infront of the ring with Rhea, Dom, Damian in the ring. Then we got to do a Q&A with them before the rest of the arena came in.
That was the best experience I've ever had and for about £250 thought it was an absolute steal!
That sounds incredible!
I would go to some place, like Michael’s or Hobby Lobby, and ask about “shadow boxes”, maybe even taking the items with you. These are pictures frames made to hold memorabilia that aren’t flat. They might even be able to help put something together. I can kind of visualize the mini-belt diagonally with the magnet in one corner and the coin in the other corner. And the printed copy in the background. They might even have ones big enough for collector’s jerseys and t-shirts.
That's a great idea actually.
my recommendation is to do the superstar package at a live event. I always make sure I get online early to ensure that I get ringside seats. At live events the wrestlers have alot more freedom and it is common for them to stay out a little longer and take pics and sign autographs after matches. They catn do this at TV events due to the struct schedule.
I'd like to do one that's near me in June. It's just so damn pricey 😆
Nah man chase this up. I did the WWE VIP Experience in 2018 and they tried to pull a fast one with what you got and I ended up going back and forth with them for months to get the things they didn’t give me - the chair being the biggest thing. I have to say, their customer service wasn’t great. You pay a premium for premium service and if you don’t get that you’ve got to fight.
Thanks for this! I truly appreciate your content. As always nice to see something you love through fresh eyes.
Thank you!
As a guy from UK, who's loved WWF/WWE since I was 7 back in 1999, I'm really enjoying your videos. And welcome to the community.
Thank you!
Hi Josh, new follower here & Toledo local! I'm VERY new to the WWE, & love watching your content. My husband is a life-long wrestling fan & decided to get back into it last year after some waning interest over the last few years. I was a complete grump at first, and gave him so much grief over it, because I was genuinely ignorant about it. But then I actually started WATCHING...
I came in when the Jimmy & Jey fued really came to a head, and I found myself so interested in their story. The Royal Rumble was my first major PLE, and I knew I was in trouble at that point, because I found myself yelling at the TV! 😂
Wrestlemania 40 was genuinely one of the most exciting things I've ever witnessed, and it's been all downhill from there! I'm honestly so excited for next week's match between Jey & Gunther, & really hope Jey comes out victorious! I have a few favorites already (mostly the women because I am in AWE of their beauty and athleticism! Rhea, Baylee, Becky, Lyra, JADE! Good grief!) but Jey has really earned my respect, & I get SO excited every time I hear his entrance music! I want to go to RAW next month when they are in town, but my husband isn't interested in going to live events, so I guess I'll just be vicariously living through your adventures! 🥹
Thanks for taking us all along on your WWE journey! 👏🏼
Warms my heart seeing other new fans get into the WWE! Sorry your husband isn't as into it as you. I just got lucky that my fiance was getting into it at the same time as me and she basically fell in love with Roman. lol Once that happened it was a lock.
But thank you for all the kind words! Glad to have you along for the ride.
Have been wondering about this, thanks for the vid!
Glad I could help!
Me and my daughter are going to do the VIP experience for the first time this year in June at the Allstate arena in Rosemont Illinois love the video thanks for the heads up now we know what to expect when you walk in the building
You have already became my favorite CZcamsr I grew up watching wrestling and just recently started watching again around the Royale rumble and watching you’re videos have helped a lot and are very entertaining
That really means a lot! I can't wait to make more.
18:47 looks like my WrestleMania 37 Swarovski crystal mini belt.
Also, welcome to the belt collecting game. I had over 20 until I sold them over the past year. I just sold my Roman Reigns autographed World Heavyweight replica on eBay.
Im on belt 4. ROH cody world Chamionship, million dollar championship, zack ryder internet championship, and my prized winged eagle. Its an addiction
Great information! Love the video
so the way merch works is that they will generally only sell merch for the superstars that will be there that night. Any major returns that might have merch theyll wait till they do their part of the night before the table makes the merch available.
Also merch is generally anywhere between 5-15 dollars cheaper on the website and they are constantly running 20-25% off discounts.
edit: also, i just wanna say the "mini" belts are supposedly the closest to the replicas than the other belts, other than the "elite" belts.
17:58 most venues require clear bags, they do here in St. Louis at the Chaifetz Arena which would be awesome to have.
That chair looks friggin neat, dude! Same with the mini belt. Glad you and your wife had a good time! Lovin’ these videos, my guy🤘
Thank you!
You're awesome for showing all this 👏 This is content that isn't easy to find everywhere.
I appreciate that!
Awesome sign dude. I made sure to look for it when watching. It wasn't hard to miss!
Hell yes! Thank you
Thanks for sharing your experience! I would like to do this one day.
Good advice, I got floor seats for mania this year and the view wasn't that great so we saw a lot on the screen but the experience was spectacular! Best wrestling show I had ever been to
Still sounds like a blast!
That reminds me of the one AEW show I went to, I has 2nd row seats and ended up behind a sasquarch that kept standing up, and even when I stood I had to look around them. Super aggravating. The ticket was only like 80$ though.
Thanks for this video. I got tickets for a Raw in September for my daughter and I. So it's nice to know what we should expect when we go.
Hope you have a great time!
So i have been a fan for 18 year's never did floor seats or vip but finding your channel it really makes me want to do it and this helped so much
That's awesome!
Dude I’m loving the new fan perspective on things.
Is there a wrestler you initially found you didn’t like only for them to win you over? My two biggest were Chris Jericho, and The Miz, hated both but grew to love them immensely.
Hope there’s more videos like the last two, I love the new fan conversing with people who’ve been into this for a long time. Hope y’all are still having fun.
Plenty more videos coming so no worries there lol
As for your question, that's kind of how I felt about LA Knight. I didn't get the nostalgia everyone seems to get from him, for obvious reasons. But over time I found him very entertaining on the mic and fine in the ring.
@@Dporticus LA Knight is definitely someone who thrives on the mic, but isn’t the flashiest in the ring, still solid though. His home invasion angle with AJ Styles leading up to Mania 40 was one of the funniest/funnest moments in recent memory.
For more of that “holy shit” moments you honestly can’t go wrong with most of the stuff Brawn Strowman was doing around 2018. Tipping semi trucks, smashing a cello over another wrestler, using a grappling hook to pull scaffolding onto Kane and Lesnar, dude was so much fun at that time.
Love the content man
Thank you!
I really like sitting in section 104 in my arena for shows. It’s on the hard cam side but elevated just enough to see everything going on in and around the ring.
Super jealous of that autograph. I was kind of hoping you could pick, because I absolutely love Miz.
What are the best seats you've ever had to a WWE show?
Once for my birthday my dad bought me aisle seats at a Christmas themed house show and we got a pic with Drew McIntyre. I also got to high five Kofi Kingston. It was awesome
Oh yeah. Also I got to walk down the aisle and touch the mat. We didn’t get to have a song played though
100s level centered at Wrestlemania this year :)
I splurged reasonably and got to be floor for Great American Bash in Austin last year. No VIP or anything. Decently behind Booker T and Vic Joseph so I could see the ring but wouldn't be on camera. It was super good. I had a great view of the ring and the crowd was great.
Went to Raw in 2007. Got in line for tickets at 6 am the day they went on sale(I was like 2nd in line). Got front row, ringside. Watch any recent PPV and imagine where the green shirt guy normally sits...that's the seat I had.
Glad you had a good time! Go to enough shows and you'll figure out where your sweet spot is. For my girl and I it's bottom of the second mezzanine in the midpoint to the hard camera side. That's where they all look at and perform to so you get to see just about everything. Downside is it's not as close, but what a great view! Keep going, you'll find your spot.
I got the chair with my night 1 WM39 seat, and I regularly use it. The chairs at these shows are genuinely good quality, I’ve been spending the last year trying to get the chairs from the other shows I’ve been to so I can have a full collection, but they’re either too expensive or people are selling them when I’m broke 😂
So jealous of that chair. I went in January and our chairs were just the plain white and black ones. That mini world title was prime though, as far as the radomness of the picture, i think its on a week to week basis. Everyone who went that night i went got cody. Hope you had a great time!
I learned early on that you gotta be careful w the floor seats for the exact reasons you said. Good stuff people should know. My local arena has "loge" boxes which are basically like a long table w office chairs which are super comfortable. They have QR codes there which you can scan and get food n drinks delivered to your seat. They're located between the 1st and 2nd deck so you can see everything, and they're only around 100-150 each and I won't go to see shows there in any other seat now. If you ever see them available I recommend them and hopefully they're a similar experience. Also, thank you for the dog cam, tell em I said hello.
I have told maxx you say hello!
That fridge magnet was your mini-title replica, lol. Still it's all about the memories. Such as paying admin fees for an electronic automated service to a private monopoly. Doesn't seem legal unless the government does it.
I'd be pretty mad if that ended up being the mini title 😆
Bayley merch tip: BoxLunch and Hot Topic have licensed Bayley merch that is likely from her heel angle, but it's so much better than what's even on WWE's site.
Also, loving your content! Got back into wrestling for some reason (Peacock hyping up WrestleMania 40) and have gone all in since then.
Hell yea! Welcome back!
When I first got my oculus headset, wwe had a really cool service on there. Watching matches from ringside or even on the apron was really cool.
They dropped the ball on that
Sounds cool actually
I was at this show. Would have loved the meet you. Summerslam is in Cleveland this year. You should make that trip as well.
Next time!
Keep up the great content
Doing my best lol
That puppy in the corner is adorable
He's the best!
@@Dporticus again as a former ref on the indy scene of about 7 yrs and a fan since Oct 86 .... hmu for any questions you have about pro wrestling
Besides the belt I'd probably not want the merch and would rather just the good seating. Was the seating worth it compared to others?
I love the PLE chairs I've seen that have the promo photo on them. I think a chair with superstars on it rather than the whole "VIP" branding would be better. It's a bit generic.
The entrance would be dope. I've seen people do a whole entrance with music from a list they can choose from. But I don't know if it's the events or the Saudi center.
The seats were great for us, but we also didn't have anyone blocking our view of the ring, which is definitely a risk.
How you managed to learn so quickly about the product still amazes me! You use PRO-WRESTLING terminologies, that a normal casual fan doesn't use! 😂😂 You caught up so quickly. Mad props to you sir!!💯💯
Thank you! I wasn't kidding when I said I fully embraced this universe! Lol
Really underrated, i hope you make more videos.
Thank you! I plan on it!
I did a travel package for Wrestlemania 19 & 22. I can confirm the chair thing was the same then too. Everything was zip tied together and we had to wait until someone to cut the zip ties. However, other rows did just start breaking them free. They did punch our ticket as we were leaving to keep up from taking two or giving our ticket to someone else, which I was bummed about. I wanted a clean ticket I could frame.
Any problem with people holding up signs in the first few rows? At Wrestlemania 19, a fight was about to break out because someone in row 3 kept holding up a sign. These guys in row 5 reached over and yanked that sign halfway through the show. They said they flew from overseas to see the show and didn’t want to look at the back of some guys sign.
Every show I've been to, even when on the floor, no one had any issue with signs. Everyone around me anyway would just hold there sign up for a few seconds and then put it back down.
But I've definitely seen people on TV get a little too out of hand with how often they were holding the signs up
If we Ohioans got anything right other than bridges, it's our stadiums...I'm pretty sure. Clean. Easy to access. Easy to roam around in.
Personally never had a VIP experience, wanted to. Only show I've ever been to was Armageddon 2000. But have a friend who had a Wrestlemania VIP, got the chair (can't remember which one..think it was the one with Rock and Cena part one. Anyway, you're not lying, that chair was super comfortable.
Thts bc u have to pick ur seat carefully. I have specific seats i will sit at or I won’t go. N accept ware u sit bc it effects other areas to experience things. Ur seat ws ur choice on your u couldn’t see. Those r things u gotta think bout bfre buying. This ws informative tho. I plan on gettin walking the aisle one time. I want front row barricade seat. Tht is my goal
Oh we could see just fine from our seats. I just felt bad for the kid a few rows behind us.
It's wild to me that someone told you there were "No signs tonight" at Smackdown. I was at the same one as you (Little Caesars Arena April 12, right?) and there were signs everywhere.... And yeah, they even did that spot where they asked everyone to "Show your signs" I doubt that would be a thing if they were banning signs for the event (and when has WWE ever even done that??!!)
Yea thankfully we walked away and entered a different tunnel lol I wasn't giving up our signs
@@Dporticus My guess is they had some kind of list or protocol of "not allowed" signs (like anything involving Vince or Brock, for instance) and someone who didn't want to do their job just said "no signs allowed."
9:20 when I was at WrestleMania 37 they showed in the venue the ad they show during the events of X% off on the WWE Shop but you definitely don’t get it on site, you actually pay a helluva tax to buy it in person lol.
When we went to AEW Dynasty last Sunday I knew they were going to have the new AEW World Title versions that Samoa Joe had with the side plates and being autographed by Joe and I figured those would be $5k but they were only $1k. I don’t think they were anything more than the new versions of the replicas and signed by Joe (so not real leather, etc). I could be wrong but that was super cheap for a real belt if it was real. It was basically the $800 for the replica plus $200 for Joe’s Autograph.
Yo I was at raw in Columbus as well. You walked past me in the video lol it was a great show.
Lol hell yea it was.
OMG Maxx look so beautiful
to comment a bit on the people taking seats and potentially missing out on your "guaranteed" seat - at survivor series in chicago they had security checking everyone's ticket who was trying to leave the floor seat area with a floor seat to ensure people weren't just taking a seat that didn't belong to them. I'd assume this might be more standard at the PLE events, but unsure since my experience with floor seats is limited to that show. similar setup with the zip ties.
also great info in the video man, good content.
Thank you!
I wonder how many of those chais and coins Trinidad Flag Guy has
😆
Just out of curiosity were you around during the Attitude Era or was that before your time?
I was around but I only started watching wrestling a year ago. My parents didn't allow me to watch as a kid so I never had any interest until I stumbled on it as an adult.
Maybe you can talk about what happens off the air at shows during the commercial breaks and pre/post show.
I don't think this is something I could ever do.
Sounds kinda fun but I'm very prone to buyers remorse and the whole "gotta bring this, can't forget that" would actually make me paranoid the entire time until the event.
So my advice, if you want to get something like this, try a cheaper vip ticket for a local indy show first. At least when it comes to the front row experience part. See if you like it enough before spending huge amounts.
Thankfully this was not our first time sitting this close. It was just our first time doing the ringsider add on portion.
But yes, the uncertainty with the email requirements was stressful literally up until the moment we got our tickets at will call.
22:07 id sit in it every time I watch wrastlin’
Great plan lol
10:27 floor seats suck for visibility. We sat in the lower bowl for AEW Dynasty and it was perfect. I’m 5’4” and so is my girlfriend, I don’t think I’ll be doing the floor seats anymore and will be doing lower bowl seats.
You need to do on location for a PLE I did it for Royal rumble and am gonna do it for summerslam this year. It’s expensive but worth it
at 11:15, I was hoping to see if Superfan Smilez was there at the show, but guess not, I think he mostly goes to PLE these days.. ha
I have sat floor a few times if it is not the first three rows it is not worth it. I sat 2nd row for RAW 25th anniversary at the Manhattan Center awesome but also sat 7th row floor aisle for WrestleMania 34 dead zone and could not move for the entire show. The best bet is low lodge center best seats in the house any show any city any day.
with the whole seat thing, idk ab with weekly shows but for the ppvs they chech your ticket b4 u leave to make sure you are the rightful owner of the chair
They only checked it before releasing the chair to you, not on the way out. So when the people found a way to release the chair themselves, it was all over lol
That belt is NICE
If you play poker you can use the coin as a card protector.
Now I just need to play poker 😆
@@Dporticus lol
Please don't stop making videos...i think you are on to something here 😁
I hope you're right 😆 thank you!
Check out some of your location for a good Independent promotion. Most cities have them they are regional so I can’t give any suggestions but always an excellent time on a Friday or Saturday night.
Have you tried the Superstar Experience ticket package yet? If you have, what is the difference?
Are people allowed to bring a normal digital camera into the arena with them if they don't have a smart phone for pictures?
I'm going to that in a few weeks. I'll have a video on it by the end of June.
I'm from Columbus Ohio I almost went to that show
Awesome belt! Also, I wonder how long Maxx would have kept licking his foot if you didn't stop him 😂
Too long. 🐶
Btw, I have watched several of your videos, and my brother is a huge fan of the Detroit Lions, he went to the Division clinching victory this year...
but GO! PACK! GO!
(I have shoulders, if other people don't care about blocking view, then I won't either, mind you, if I am already splurging to take my kid to floor seats I am going to pay a premium to get right up to the front for him.)
Go Lions!
Im attending raw next week in Hartford, I saw that package and I’m like this is not worth it lol, I remember going to cyber Sunday 07 and backlash 08 paying 250 for ringside and getting the chair lol. 650 for a raw is just ridiculous
Unfortunately now that wwe is popular again you aren't going to get those seats for 250 anymore lol
Floor seats can be great but only if you can select your own seat. Being in the first row or second is going to give a great view but beyond that, not so much and not worth the extra cost. At the event I went to there was a couple with a child (probably about 5 yrs old) in the third row VIP and I heard security telling them that the child had to stay seated, if they were caught standing on the seat they would be kicked out with no refund (probably a safety/insurance thing, but still sucks for the kid). And the signed photo definitely isn't random (or isn't at all events at least), everyone at this event with VIP got a Cody Rhodes signed one.
I watched someone else do a review from a year or so ago and they got a different photo than the person they went with. So who knows.
Have you or do you plan to go to any Indi shows?
Not yet but plan to
How much is the ticket from vip to up?
Ours was about 625 per ticket before fees.
@@Dporticus alright but I thought you experienced all sides from up theirs to vip the tickets price, maybe you can create a video about tickets prices from lowest to vip thanks
I know Raw goes late. With the VIP room how much longer?
Probably took us about 20 minutes to go from our seats, to collecting our merch, to leaving the building.
I did floorseats at NXT takeover Cardiff and will never do the floor again.
1. Had to sit at a 45 degree angle because of the direction of the chairs. There were just too many rows of chairs.
2. Everyone standing up and the littlest thing so you just couldn't see passed anyone.
I can't watch the ppv anymore because it's been ruined. There was a drunk dude who wouldn't shut up. So I can hear him and what ended up happening to him.
You can really hear him during Walter vs Tyler bate. Someone kept telling him to shut up but he wouldn't so someone went for him. And wanted to knock him out.
I also had an issue with someone who needed to shut up when we went to summer slam
Hey mate how much was 1st row?
Im actually not sure. Every show I've gone to had the front row sold out
@@Dporticus for shows I like sitting in the stands u see everything like entrances ringside and in ring but the mate I go with has bad eyesite he can't see from far away so we have to get floor seats there usually 70 to 100 quid but thats just for a house show most wwe shows have been house shows I went to been to few nxt uk shows aswell they were fun like 3 to 4 hr taped shows
@@Dporticus would u pay that price again or just sit in stands I never pay that for a live show
Im so happy your dog has a title now. 100% deserved 😂
Well earned
Just came to say GO LIONS!!
One Pride baby! 🦁
For 200$ more I had a floor seat to wrestlemania XL night 2
That's awesome! Hope it was a blast.
Did you get a meet and greet?
I did not, you need to get the superstar version for that.
I have wanted a WWE folding chair for about 20 plus years!
This is a sign to go grab one! 😆
@@Dporticus apparently, I can just steal it after the show 🤣
@@grizzgo true lol
Bro you need to watch John Cena vs Eddie Guerrero parking lot brawl
If I’m 5 ft 8 would I be able to see in the second row?
2nd row you might be fine as long as the person in front of you isn't huge.
Thanks
Do you think it would be possible to bring cash and offer someone in front row money to switch seats?
@dailysplash33 ehhh I wouldn't count on it.
Are you going to Summerslam 2024 in Cleveland
I'd like to but I'm not sure if we'll be able to yet.
So you said you read all the comments, and i just want ya to kno i hit the thumbs down, not because of you AT ALL!! But because of the bs they gave you for that amount... GOOD VIDEO THO! Keep up the good work
The thumbs down hurts my dog 😢
I wonder if the Miz autographs were specific to you being at a show in Ohio since he is from Cleveland