10 WrestleMania Statistics WWE Don’t Want You To Know
1. 4,039
WWE promoted WrestleMania 32 at the AT&T Stadium for the express purpose of drawing a six-figure crowd.
Vince McMahon was desperate to achieve this goal, and for a while there, it almost crumbled. Seth Rollins fell to injury. Daniel Bryan was forced to retire. Randy Orton missed the show as, most importantly, did John Cena. And, while the out-of-nowhere return of Shane McMahon led to a surge in ticket sales, a price for which we're still paying, it wasn't quite enough. If he had to, Vince McMahon was prepared to pay Nailz seven figures, and hide him under a mask as a mystery André The Giant Memorial Battle Royal participant to bump up the numbers.
Happily, he didn't have to; McMahon simply lied about the attendance instead - to the sum of 4,039 people.
If you don't believe Meltzer's calculations, because you think a guy who awarded the WrestleMania XII Iron Man ****1/4 is somehow biased against WWE, the COO himself freely admitted to creative arithmetic in a February 2017 conference call.
"We were proud to set our attendance record of over 100,000," McMahon said, and then, more quietly "...which includes, by the way, ushers and ticket takers and all of that." So Vince incorporated his roster and concession stand workers into the final figure in order to cover his lie to shareholders. "Several more people attended, too," McMahon continued. "In spirit, quite frankly."
Even though it was the biggest, it still wasn't big enough.
If ever 11 words summed up Vince McMahon...