10 BIGGEST Wrestling Events Ever

With All Elite Wrestling booking Wembley Stadium in London and 81,035 paying customers turing up, the landscape of the wrestling business changed forever. The new kids on the block are here to stay in a big way; watch out McMahons!

All it took was Dave Melzer tweeting that Ring of Honor couldn't sell 10,000 tickets to their own show for Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks to recruit every indie wrestler under the sun for an event at Sears Centre in Chicago. The original All In was the biggest non-WWE or World Championship Wrestling event in the United States since 1993.

WWE has always boasted about how many fans are at its biggest shows, so with WrestleMania being hosted in a stadium every year, its collection of gigantic shows only grows. Cut through the lies they tell you about attendance figures and you'll find a list of... it's still mostly WrestleManias of course, but with AEW knocking on the door, how long will Vince McMahon's empire dominate? In a year, there could be another All In taking up space as one of the biggest shows ever.

This is a list that fans of wrestling hope will be completely different in a few years. Keep pushing AEW; keep responding WWE.

74,287 packed into Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan to watch WrestleMania 23. It'd been 20 years since the Granddaddy of Them All had been close to the Motor City, when Hulk Hogan body slammed Andre the Giant in front of 93,173 (we'll get to that completely true figure later) at the iconic Pontiac Silverdome.

Let's get it out the way now in fact. WWE loves to embellish its attendance figures, which they also did at 23. They still think 80,103 people were there, but that number's been proven false. Why do they keep doing this?

So, what did almost 75,000 fans get rewarded with on this night in 2007?

A future President of the United States and soon-to-be disgraced WWE Chief Executive Officer battling over who gets their head shaved, Extreme Championship Wrestling's biggest stars losing to some nobodies, and Kane putting over The Great Khali!

That's not entirely fair to the event. The Money in the Bank ladder match was solid, The Undertaker Vs. Batista stole the show, and Shawn Michaels got to main event for the fourth time in his career.

Having gone back to arenas for 'Manias 20-22, it was delightful to see WWE entering stadiums again. WrestleManias 17-19 had been outdoors (with the roof closed at 18) so it was about time they got their confidence in the product back.