Wrestlemania Sets New Record

NYSE-listed WWE on Monday announced that WrestleMania 35 broke the record for MetLife Stadium’s highest-grossing entertainment event. The gross annual pop-culture extravaganza of WWE stood at $16.9 million, outnumbering 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. WWE’s video-on-demand library is currently available in more than 180 countries. Headquartered in Stamford, the company, at present, has its offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Tokyo.

WrestleMania 35 was the second highest-grossing event in WWE history, only behind WrestleMania 32 at AT&T Stadium in Texas.

As part of the weeklong WrestleMania celebration, WWE will host five consecutive nights of events at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ and Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said that WWE outdid themselves by creating an even more exciting WrestleMania than they experienced six years ago. The WWE Universe helped deliver significant economic results to New Jersey, and they look forward to the opportunity of hosting WrestleMania again in the future, he said.

WWE Executive Vice President of Special Events John Saboor said that they are thrilled that WrestleMania’s return to WWE’s ‘front yard’ delivered incredible results. This would not have been possible without the tireless support of Governor Murphy and their public and private sector partners throughout the New York and New Jersey region. They now turn their attention to next year, where WrestleMania will make a historic Tampa Bay debut, he said.