10 Ways WWE Can Guarantee A WrestleMania 32 Sell-Out

These matches would shift a buttload of tickets.

By Adam Blampied /

WWE is in do-or-die mode. They are under 10 months away from Wrestlemania 32, or, as WWE will insist upon calling it, "Wrestlemania" - they've done away with numbers, no one knows why. According to the Wrestling Observer, Vince McMahon had told his staff that they 'have to sell out' the venue, the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas. The problem: it holds over 100,000 people. Some of you might be thinking, 'well sure, WWE's the biggest wrestling promotion in the world, it has over 1 million subscribers to its network, easy peasy.' Well, no. And be quiet. While it's true that WWE have been packing arenas with 70,000+ capacity for years, it's never bested 100,000. The closest it ever managed was the record 93,173 for Wrestlemania 3, but a) that was at the height of wrestling's popularity under Hogan, and b) that number's been claimed to be fraudulent by a number of sources, Dave Meltzer claiming that the actual number of paying customers was as low as 78,000. To put it in perspective for those who cite figures of online popularity, Wrestlemania 31 was the highest grossing Wrestlemania of all time and it only pulled in the (alleged) number of 76,976. WWE have to pull another 25,000 people out of the ether somehow, and it's going to need a STACKED card to do it. What follows shouldn't be taken as a pitch for WM32's full card, but rather 10 matches that, if advertised, would put bums in seats. Matches like...