Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Saturday, September 16, 2006 at 4:52 PM EST

The early buyrate for the 2006 SummerSlam PPV this year is 540,000 buys, with an estimated 324,000 buys in the domestic market. That is higher than the estimate for last year's SummerSlam which had an early number of 525,000 buys. The show later had a total of 655,000 buys when all international markets were figured in.

It should be noted that approximately 40 percent of PPV buys for WWE in 2006 have come from the international market. That is up from last year, which saw international buys account for at least 34 percent of total PPV purchases. We could be waiting until the first half of the 2007 calendar year to find out the full total of buys for SummerSlam this year and whether or not it passes last year's PPV both in total and domestic buys.

Source: James Caldwell @ PWTorch.com