More than one person has asked today about WrestleMania ticket movement this year versus last year, so here’s a visual representation.
The two-day event is in the same stadium as last year (Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas) which is somewhat helpful for eliminating externalities.
Of course, here we are not accounting for any differences there may be in ticket prices (which we don’t have good data on) and how much one wants to factor in the unusual fact that WrestleMania is in the same city this year as last year.
All data here relies on WrestleTix estimates of tickets distributed (sales, plus comps).
This year’s WrestleMania:
- For Night 1, last estimate with 12 days to go was 39,292.
- For Night 2, last estimate with 13 days to go was 41,260.
Last year’s WrestleMania with a similar (slightly more) amount of time to go…
- For Night 1, with 14 days to go was at 48,621.
- For Night 2, with 15 days to go was at 51,044.
So this year is down by about 19% from the prior year at a similar point.
It should be noted that last year’s WrestleMania drew the biggest two individual pro wrestling gates of all-time, even adjusting for inflation: around $33 million each night (as reported for POST Wrestling here).
Given the ticket prices at least early on, this year’s WrestleMania will probably still be among the highest pro wrestling gates ever, though, reaching the record of last year seems very doubtful at this point.
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Brandon Thurston has written about wrestling business since 2015. He operates and owns Wrestlenomics.