10 Times WWE Leaked Top Secret Information

10. The WrestleMania III Attendance

WWE and Dave Meltzer used to enjoy a cordial relationship - cordial enough, bizarrely, for WWE to drop the carny act and casually reveal the truth behind one of its most blustering falsehoods.

For years, WWE insisted that 93,000 fans were drawn to the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit to watch Hulk Hogan body slam André The Giant, after which, of course, the 650 pound or half-tonne André passed on days later as Hogan recovered from the feat having torn every muscle in his back.

"It took a lot to see him off, but brother, I just about did it, God rest his soul."

It's a typical WWE embellishment: RAW is the longest-running weekly episodic show in TV history, Survivor Series is the one night a year that the stars of RAW and SmackDown compete head-to-head, Randy Orton is an in-ring legend.

But an embellishment it is, as Dave Meltzer clarified.

Meltzer was first alerted to WWE's lie by Zane Bresloff, who worked on the local promotion. Any suggestion that Bresloff had played down the figure, given his later defection to WCW, was brushed aside by WWE itself, who confirmed the real number of 78,000.

This itself has been disputed, in a very interesting piece by David Bixenspan, but WWE all but said they were bullsh*tters to, of all people, Dave Meltzer.