Vince McMahon Tells Staff WrestleMania 32 Must Sell Out

WrestleMania next year will be one of the most important in WWE history. That's because WWE has booked the show for AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas just outside of Dallas. The massive stadium that is home to the NFL's Dallas Cowboys could potentially hold over 100,000 fans for the event to be held on April 3, 2016. According to the Wrestling Observer, WWE's soon to be 70 year old Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon has made it clear to everyone that WrestleMania has to sell out next year. That's a lot of pressure to put on WWE employees because legitimately selling out a building that big is going to be incredibly hard. In order to get that kind of number, WWE is going to have to present an exceptional card. Getting 70,000 people legitimately is something they're able to do and we have seen that regularly in the past decade, but in order to get more people to come they need to lower ticket prices significantly or simply present an exceptional lineup that draws people in. It seems very likely that part time wrestlers like Brock Lesnar, The Rock, Triple H, The Undertaker and Sting will all take part just because it's such a huge venue that every wrestler will want to be on. Would Hulk Hogan possibly be in a match? He said he wants to be. It's not like he has to bump.

Another huge name that WWE would love to put in a match is Steve Austin. Next year will be 13 years since his last match, though, so it seems farfetched to think that he would risk his damaged neck and bad knees to have one more match, even if it is the biggest event ever. Perhaps if the money is right he'd consider it. All of those former huge names are great, but there's a current star that WWE would love to have in a match too: Ronda Rousey. UFC President Dana White sounds like he's against the idea, but a lot can change in the next ten months and Rousey has said repeatedly that she definitely wants to be in a WWE ring at some point.

The record attendance for an event held at AT&T Stadium was the 2010 NBA All-Star game, which drew a massive crowd of 108,713 fans to the event. It seems unlikely that WWE could top that number just based on the size of a WrestleMania set taking up a lot of room. Of course, as we have seen in past years WWE often lies about what the real number is and adds anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 people to the number so if they do legitimately get 100,000 people there they might say it's 109,000 just to say they have the record. Good luck to WWE in getting to that number. It won't be easy, but if Vince is already telling his employees how important it is then you know they will do everything they can to reach that goal.