World Wrestling Entertainment set a new record Sunday night at the Reliant Stadium in Houston for the 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania, grossing $6.9 million in revenue. This is the highest grossing live event in WWE history. With 72,744 in attendance, the 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania surpassed SuperBowl XLIII in Tampa (70,774 attendance). WWE fans from all 50 states, 24 countries and 7 Canadian Provinces attended the pop culture extravaganza.
However, less than 24 hours after the conclusion of one of the world’s greatest spectacles the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship game at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan overtook the WWE in comparison of attendance figures. The championship game between the Michigan State Spartans and North Carolina Tarheels drew a total of 72,922 thereby beating out WrestleMania 25 by a total of 178 occupied seats.
With all of the bragging that the WWE has been doing about beating the attendance numbers from Super Bowl XLIII, one has to wonder if they’ll continue touting their numbers even in the face of this developing news.
