{"id":117545,"date":"2023-01-10T15:20:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T20:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=117545"},"modified":"2023-01-10T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T20:22:07","slug":"wrestlemania-39-the-rock-match-rumors-help-propel-wwe-to-largest-ever-wrestlemania-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/01\/10\/wrestlemania-39-the-rock-match-rumors-help-propel-wwe-to-largest-ever-wrestlemania-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"WrestleMania 39: The Rock Match Rumors Help Propel WWE to Largest Ever WrestleMania Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"

While not a single match has been announced for WrestleMania Goes Hollywood (WrestleMania 39)<\/strong><\/em>, rumors of returning superstars – one in particular – were enough for WWE<\/strong> to reach a brand new gate record for WrestleMania ticket sales.<\/p>\n

Tickets for WrestleMania 39 went on sale to the public in August 2022 and in the ensuing five months, close to 100,000 tickets across the two nights have already been purchased according to Wrestle Tix. As a result of the sales, WWE has surpassed their previous record gate of $17.3M for WrestleMania 32<\/strong><\/em>. This despite the show not scheduled for another three months and despite the Road to WrestleMania<\/strong><\/em> – and the match announcements that come with it – only just beginning.<\/p>\n

Read More:\u00a0Early Betting Odds Revealed for WrestleMania 39 Roman Reigns, Rock Dream Match<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, while these sales are being reported on the heels of a record attendance year for several WWE events in 2022, it should be worth noting the elephant in the room. It is hard to imagine that the months-long rumors of the Rock returning to WWE for a marquee WrestleMania 39 match against Roman Reigns<\/strong> didn’t have an impact on these record sales. The Rock is a bonafide star and much the way that John Cena<\/strong> moved the needle for WWE in his SmackDown appearance to end 2022<\/a>, the Rock will do so should his match become official. In fact, he’s already done so, and it’s not even confirmed if his schedule will allow him to appear.<\/p>\n

WWE released a press release on Monday detailing the record gate attendance for WrestleMania 39:<\/h2>\n

WrestleMania Goes Hollywood\u00a0<\/i>at SoFi Stadium Surpasses\u00a0WrestleMania 32<\/i>\u00a0as Best-Seller in Company History, Nearly Three Months Prior to Event<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– WWE\u00ae<\/sup><\/i>\u00a0(NYSE: WWE) today announced that\u00a0WrestleMania Goes Hollywood\u00a0<\/i>(WrestleMania 39<\/i>), which will originate from SoFi Stadium in\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0across two nights, broke the company\u2019s all-time gate record for any\u00a0WrestleMania<\/i>, despite having yet to announce a single match. The previous record announced was\u00a0$17.3 million\u00a0in 2016 at\u00a0WrestleMania 32\u00a0<\/i>at AT&T Stadium in\u00a0Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n

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WWE\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0BREAKS ALL-TIME WRESTLEMANIA\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0GATE RECORD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The record gate comes on the heels of unprecedented ticket sales demand for WWE in 2022, in which it produced the highest-grossing gates of all-time for\u00a0Royal Rumble<\/i>,\u00a0Survivor Series<\/i>\u00a0and Extreme Rules.\u00a0<\/i>Clash at the Castle<\/i>\u00a0in\u00a0Cardiff, Wales, which marked WWE\u2019s first major stadium show in the\u00a0U.K.\u00a0in 30 years, was the highest-grossing\u00a0U.K.\u00a0event in company history.<\/p>\n

Additionally, WWE set in-market gate records for\u00a0SmackDown<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Raw<\/i>\u00a0events in more than 20 markets for the year, including the December 30\u00a0SmackDown<\/i>, which took place in\u00a0Tampa, Fla.\u00a0and heralded the return of WWE Superstar John Cena.<\/p>\n

Limited single and two-day combo tickets for\u00a0WrestleMania Goes Hollywood (WrestleMania 39)<\/i> can still be purchased through Ticketmaster.com. The event\u00a0<\/i>streams live on Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2 exclusively on Peacock in\u00a0the United States\u00a0and WWE Network everywhere else.<\/p>\n

While not a single match has been announced for WrestleMania Goes Hollywood (WrestleMania 39), rumors of returning superstars – one in particular – were enough for WWE to reach a brand new gate record for WrestleMania ticket sales. Tickets for WrestleMania 39 went on sale to the public in August 2022 and in the ensuing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2418,"featured_media":117546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,2192,4,3],"tags":[1218,165,2005,77,396,8392],"class_list":["post-117545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-hollywood","tag-john-cena","tag-rock","tag-roman-reigns","tag-wrestlemania","tag-wrestlemania-39"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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