10 Obscure WWE WrestleMania Facts You'll SWEAR Aren't Real

9. Doubling Up

WWE WrestleMania 42
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Industry analysts and critics have opined about WWE’s decision to bail on holding WrestleMania 42 in New Orleans as previously announced, instead choosing to return to the site of WrestleMania 41.

Sluggish ticket sales have prompted questions about whether this was the right decision. After all, WWE almost never backs up locations in successive years, choosing instead to zig-zag across North America for its signature show.

However, this isn’t the first time WWE has pulled a Jey Uso and run it back in the same venue in back-to-back years.

In the 80s, the then-WWF held WrestleManias IV and V from the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall (dubbed Trump Plaza for the event since the adjacent casino hotel was the event sponsor) in New Jersey. Those shows, however, have been criticized for seemingly disinterested audiences that might not have been there exclusively as wrestling fans.

Since then, WWF/E has always varied locations from year to year, almost always avoiding being in the same region in back-to-back years… until this year.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.