Real Attendance Figures for WWE Backlash Significantly Lower Than Reported

As previously reported, the “official” attendance numbers for this month’s WWE Backlash pay-per-view, as announced to the fans inside the Prudential Center in Newark, was 14,724. Those numbers are almost always completely meaningless, as WWE notoriously inflates their attendance figures for everything.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter the real figure was around 12,000, which was reportedly close to a sellout, but there were definitely still plenty of tickets avail