10 Things We Learned From Attending WWE WrestleMania 37 Live

10. What The Crowd Really Looks Like

Given the dynamic of the "ongoing global situation," there was never any intention of maxing out Raymond James Stadium's capacity for WrestleMania 37. With around 25,000 fans each night (according to WWE), it would have made sense for the company to find creative camera angles to make the crowd more visually dense or to actually show off some of the emptiness as a way saying, "Hey, we followed the CDC guidelines and still put on a show."

Instead, if you were sitting on the side of the arena facing the hard camera, you might have been thrown off by the people sitting around you... largely because they weren't actually people.

With pod seating, small groups of seats were intentionally left vacant to establish social distancing. For the one side of the arena, not only were the spaces between pods filled with phony fans, but they were also placed in the seats for which WWE never sold the tickets. How would this writer know WWE didn't end up selling the tickets? The seats that were never meant to be available were zip-tied shut, and some of the cardboard cutouts were in seats that were not restrained.

WWE has always exaggerated their crowd size, but in the past, at least they only lied about the living, breathing fans. To get even, though, numerous fans decided to sneak their new cardboard buddies out of the arena, and it didn't seem like security was bothered at the slightest.