10 Massive Exaggerations In WWE

8. Attendance

For fans and wrestlers alike, WrestleMania is the biggest event on the wrestling calendar and with that it’s been prone to some monumental exaggerations from Vince McMahon and co. over the years, especially when it comes to attendance.

Vince constantly feels he need to one-up himself from the previous year or the last time WWE ran that stadium/arena, so WWE inflates the attendance numbers. He particularly felt the need to do this most recently at WrestleMania 32 when the company tried to break their own attendance record they’d set at WrestleMania III inside the Pontiac Silverdome (which they claimed was 93,173 when in actuality it was more around 78,000). The Rock announced at 32 that WWE had set the all-time attendance record with 101,763. Turns out that wasn’t exactly true as Vince later said on a conference call: “That included ushers and ticket-takers. It wasn’t 101,000 paid.” It turned out to be somewhere in the region of 73,111 to 85,888.

WWE also used this exaggeration tactic at the first ‘Super Show-Down’ held in Melbourne, Australia in 2018. It was headlined by Triple H vs. The Undertaker which was billed as the ‘Last Time Ever’ these two would square off (which itself was an exaggeration as Taker and HHH wrestled each other in a tag team match in Saudi Arabia less than a month later). WWE claimed 70,309 were there at the time which has since been heavily disputed, many believing it was closer to 62,000.

Next time WWE announces they broke the attendance record, raise a Rock-like eyebrow at it.