WWE News: WrestleMania 32 sets new attendance record, according to reports

Move over Michigan, Dallas is the place to be now. According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WrestleMania 32 is now the record-holder for all-time attendance. Using last week’s figures, 84,000 tickets have been accounted for and the event is nearing sell-out.

According to the “books”, WrestleMania 3 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan held the record with a supposed 93,173 tickets sold, although the actual figure for the 1992 edition is around 78,000. SummerSlam in that same year holds the all-time WWE attendance record with 79,127 tickets sold.

Meltzer speculates that the end figure for the tickets sold for WrestleMania 32 will be just over 84,000, unless there are standing tickets sold as well, reports wrestlinginc.com. He also opined that with WWE normally exaggerating the figure for attendance by 10,000-13,000, they might just end announcing that there were more than 100,000 fans present.

WWE also announced Orlando, Florida as the venue for WrestleMania 33. Speaking to Brian Fritz of the Orlando Sentinel, Vince McMahon responded to a question about the onus of outdoing themselves with each successive WrestleMania saying,”I can say, unequivocally, that it's a lot of pressure. Every year you have to outdo yourself. This year was difficult because John Cena was not a part of it. We have to reach way down and try and come up with things you haven't done before and also hold back surprises that the audience does not know. They expect that from us."