10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About WrestleMania 38
WWE WrestleMania 38. Featuring: Botches! Burials! THE WORST STUNNER EVER! Annnnnnd...it's gone.
Thanks to the excellent WrestleTix account on Twitter, we know that WWE issued a staggeringly impressive 131,372 total tickets for both combined nights of WrestleMania 38.
This number is the first thing the company wants you to forget.
They announced 77,899 for Night One and 78,453 on Night Two, totalling 156,352. 25,000 more than the punters accounted for in the WrestleTix headcount. AT&T Stadium's 100,000+ number in 2016 forced Vince McMahon to admit they included ticket-takers, stewards and others like them in the overall number, and their inflated 2022 figure may well have taken into account the guys and girls bringing food to the seats and the person driving Becky Lynch's car on the stage.
Wrestling fans have long memories, and these sorts of tidbits will stick to WWE in the future regardless of the figures they publish, but attendances aren't the only things they might want scrubbing from the most successful weekend of their business year.
WWE is a brand first and a wrestling company second, and in protecting the sacred tenets of said brand, they'll almost certainly want these specific matches and moments at the back of everybody's brains going forward...
10. Rick Boogs' Injury
A desperately unfortunate way for the performer to have his WrestleMania main card debut conclude, Rick Boogs’ quad tear in the Night One opener left an early stain on the 'Show Of Shows' before the card gradually turned around.
Injuries happen in pro wrestling, and the wrestlers themselves are reminded of this through the company's own Don't Try This At Home warnings as well as the various ailments suffered by their colleagues on the never-ending grind. But WrestleMania is just about the worst destination for such a physical and mental blow.
Shinsuke Nakamura and The Usos were forced to improvise a finish (and, according to reports, the result) as the poor former NXT cult favourite lay by the ring in absolute agony. What took place in the ring was more than acceptable in the circumstances, but the circumstances were the circumstances nonetheless.
Ultimately, for Boogs himself as much as WWE, this was a night to forget rather than to cherish.