Popular YouTube personality claims that he spent $20,000 to attend a WWE PLE
Popular YouTube personality BDE, who has close to 1.5 million subscribers, spoke with Chris Van Vliet about his journey toward becoming a professional wrestler. During the interview, BDE claimed that he spent $20,000 to attend the 2025 WWE Royal Rumble PLE.
Here was the exchange courtesy of ChrisVanVliet.com…
CVV: “With your videos, titles and thumbnails are crucial. They’re the most important thing. When you have a video titled, ‘I bought a $20,000 seat to Royal Rumble’ I’d click on that.”
BDE: “That was a risk. That was a really big risk, because I’ve never [spent that much]. I’ve spent a lot of money on videos.”
CVV: “You actually bought a $20,000 seat?”
BDE: “I dropped $20,000 of my own money. That was the biggest risk I’ve ever taken.”
CVV: “The video got 4 million views. So you made your money back. But what are you thinking when you hit purchase?”
BDE: “On one hand, I was excited, because I was like, I’ve never sat that close at a wrestling show before, so I was like, either way, it’s gonna be awesome. But I was like, I really hope the ROI is gonna be there. It all came about because I was playing video games with Brent, and we were just chilling, and we were like we want to go to this event. He was like, why don’t we just get tickets? And I was like, hold on, that’s a good idea. So then I call my business manager, and I was like, ‘Hey, I kind of want to drop $20,000 on a ticket. What do you think about this?’ He was like, ‘What are the plans to make that back?’ I was like, ‘Oh, we’ll do streams. We’ll do whatever we got to do. I don’t know. We’ll make it back.’ We ended up doing streams to make it back. So the video before we even filmed it, we had already made some of it back, but it was still a big risk. I’ve never dropped that much money in my life.”