Wrestlemania 35 Attendance Prediction
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By the end, everyone – the wrestlers, the crowd, and the fans at home – was fried.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – WWE announced tonight that WrestleMania 35 broke the record for MetLife Stadium’s highest-grossing entertainment event. WWE’s annual pop-culture extravaganza grossed $16.9 million, surpassing the venue’s previous record of $12.3 million set by WrestleMania 29 in 2013, as a sold-out crowd of 82,265 fans from all 50 states and 68 countries converged on MetLife Stadium. Wrestlemania 35 Predictions 16) Lacey Evans Will Win The Women’s Battle Royal At Wrestlemania 35. WWE has confirmed that there will be a Women’s battle royal at Wrestlemania for the second year in a row. This is a good way to get some of the female stars on. WrestleMania 35 takes place on Sunday night, live from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. For the first time, women will be competing in the main event, as Raw women's champion Ronda Rousey.
WWE WrestleMania 37 is now scheduled to be held on April 10 and 11, 2021 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florid. The event will take place across two nights which is similar to the last year's WrestleMania PPV. It will be the 37th annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view.
WrestleMania 35, which aired on Sunday night live from MetLife Stadium, had run over seven (!) hours for people in attendance, and by the time Ronda Rousey was pinned by Becky Lynch (or was she even pinned?) the crowd barely registered that the match had ended.
Was it a botched ending that was decided on last minute to try and get the event over with? Possibly. But even if it had been a fantastic final match, I’m not sure the crowd in attendance could have mustered up the energy to reward it.
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Asking fans in uncomfortable stadium seats to provide energy and attention for seven-plus hours is preposterous. Asking fans at home to provide energy and attention for that long is preposterous.
It’s gotten too long. And WWE is in danger of choking off its fans – and cheating its wrestlers of lively crowds who can sell a match – by insisting on packing these events so full.
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It’s time WWE did the sensible thing: Either cut out half the matches, or embrace the idea of a weekend festival and have the event spread out over both Saturday and Sunday.
First, regarding the fans. Asking people to attend anything in person over three hours is asking a lot of them. Especially in stadium seats, especially on a Sunday night before work, asking people to create an atmosphere for that long is foolish.
On top of that, MetLife stadium’s transportation options clearly weren’t prepared for a crowd of that size to get out at midnight on a Sunday. Cancelled Ubers and delayed trains led to fans having to wait hours after the event to get home or to a hotel.
Something like that will leave fans with a sour taste in their mouths. At a certain point, sacrificing ten hours of a day and showing up to work the next morning (or, and I can’t even imagine, having to deal with NYC airports and fly home today) totally wrecked, won’t be worth the thrill of seeing WrestleMania in person.
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They bill it as the Super Bowl of wrestling, and it very well is that, but with the actual Super Bowl, the NFL spends a ton of time, money and resources on making sure that there’s adequate infrastructure in place to support a crowd of that size for the big game. WWE clearly didn’t do that.
Just as importantly, though, the wrestlers are being cheated out of great crowds, especially by the time of the main event, because the people there are so gassed.
By the time Rousey, Lynch and Charlotte Flair were going in what should have been a historic main event, the match felt like an afterthought. After the incredible matches earlier in the night, especially a standout from Kofi Kingston and Daniel Bryan, there was nothing left to give.
This comes across at home, which should be the most worrying thing for WWE. From my couch, the main event felt oddly lacking energy, and it took me a minute to realize that it was because the crowd was so quiet. They tried to get up for it, but they were as spent as the wrestlers in the ring.
There are ways to fix this. Go back to a shorter card and save stuff for Raw, setting a hard limit of four hours, which I’d argue is already pushing the limits of an attention span.
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Or: Break it up into two days. Bill it as a weekend festival, have a Saturday night headliner and a Sunday night headliner, and go 3.5 hours each day. Fans won’t feel cheated. If anything, it’ll be a relief.