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The gate for the premiere of WWE Monday Night Raw on Netflix at the Intuit Dome on Monday was $4.8 million, likely including ticket fees, according to a source.
The last known arena gate record for WWE was $3.3 million for Money in the Bank in London. That record was broken twice in 2024, by Backlash in France and Bash in Berlin, but we don’t know what those gate figures were.
Assuming about 90% of the estimated 17,003 tickets distributed (per WrestleTix) were sold, that results in an estimated ticket price of around $314.
The event also sold $459,000 in venue merchandise sales. To estimate a venue merch per capita number, assuming 90% of the estimated 17,003 tickets distributed were sold, we’d get a merch per ticket sold of $30.
For posterity, when adjusting for inflation, each of the Wrestlemania events in Atlantic City in 1988 and 1989 are ahead of this record. Both gates are listed on prowrestlinghistory.com as $2.3 million. The gate for Wrestlemania 4 in 1988 would be $6.2 million in today’s dollars and Wrestlemania 5 in 1989 would now be $5.9 million. (Calculated using the government’s inflation calculator.)