10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 14 Facts
1. It Was The Largest North American Gate In Six Years
WWE was back in a big way. The doldrums of the nineties looked to be a thing of the past when WWE sold out Boston's Fleet Center with more than $1M at the gate ($1,029,230, per the Wrestling Observer Newsletter). That number seems paltry today, especially as WrestleManias' 29 through 32 each topped $10M in ticket sales. But in 1998, more than a million bucks for a non-stadium show was something wild.
In a bit of symbolism, WrestleMania 14's large take at the box office was the largest for a North American wrestling show since WrestleMania 8 in 1992, a stadium show. Given that time period roughly marked the start of WWE's ugly downward spiral into scandal-plagued near-oblivion, the WrestleMania 14 revenue reads like a squared circle Lazarus story.