WWE ticket prices have soared through the roof since TKO took over the corporate, and Rikishi has weighed in on the subject, noting that he too doesn’t receive complimentary tickets to shows.
Rikishi looked back on 2025 in pro wrestling on “Rikishi Fatu – Off The Top Podcast,” where he acknowledged that wrestlers are getting paid higher and that their schedules are lighter, each of which he applauded. But, he is not a fan of the rising ticket prices and TKO even removing comp tickets for him, a Hall of Famer and whose sons wrestle in the corporate.
“But so far as I feel the paydays and the way the corporate is structured now, you understand, [it’s good] [but] I do not know in regards to the ticket prices with TKO. I actually have even my members of the family like, now we will not even — like they are going to often call me for tickets, but it surely’s too difficult now. There’s a number of like loopholes you’ve got to undergo and blah, blah, blah, though, you understand, I’m not with the corporate full-time, but I’m still within the Legends contract with the WWE,” he said. “You’d think that, you understand, well, members of the family and friends, close friends [would get comp tickets] – there isn’t any comp tickets. I can probably attempt to get like a reduced [ticket], but I do not know what’s discount nowadays. Like, $1,000 ticket?”
Rikishi added that it’s not sustainable for a family to afford WWE tickets at current prices, comparing them to the past, when he said tickets often cost between $25 and $75. While he understands the predicament fans are in and is willing to listen to them out, he stated that every one he can do is discuss it.
Ticket prices under the TKO regime have doubled for WWE events, and so they might not be reduced anytime soon, as TKO executives imagine Vince McMahon was charging less when he headed the corporate.