10 WWE PPVs That Were Doomed From The Start
4. WrestleMania 32
Vince McMahon's 2018 Happy Birthday tweet to daughter Stephanie featured the pair of them sporting huge smiles by the huge AT&T Stadium pitch on the day WrestleMania 32 was officially booked for the 100,000 seater stadium.
It was perhaps the proudest they'd ever felt. McMahon was finally going to do away with the legitimacy row behind WrestleMania III's attendance and break his own record by drawing a six figure house for one of the biggest ever editions of the 'Show Of Shows'.
Soon enough though, his ego was his drowning pool as bodies hit the floor all over the shop. John Cena, Seth Rollins, Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton, Cesaro, Neville, Bray Wyatt and others were all natural card-fillers that were suddenly on the injured reserve list as the company scrambled to produce card that could satisfy their biggest ever seating allocation.
The element of surprise in announcing Shane McMahon as Undertaker's opponent remarkably helped spike sales (even if the match itself was the immediate living, breathing (heavily) example of 'diminished return') but the inevitable Roman Reigns/Triple H main event was doing little to drum up further interest.
Spun figures got them over the line - 101,763 was the announced attendance McMahon had to admit included every single wrestler, security guard, usher and arena staffer in the venue as the show took place.