12 Richest WWE Matches Of All Time
2. John Cena Vs. The Rock (WrestleMania XXVIII)
The highest drawing main event in company history, WrestleMania 28's first-time (but not 'Once In A Lifetime') meeting between John Cena and The Rock was arguably the last of the top-drawing dream matches WWE had left at their disposal in a pre-Network era. With 12 months of direct build and years of thrown barbs between them though, this enormous figure still over-delivered on an immaculate hype job.
Rounding out at 1,253,000, the show did over 100,000 more than the record set the previous year, over 750,000 more than that year's Royal Rumble and SummerSlam and a full million more than the Survivor Series seven months later.
Adding to it the 78,363 spectators that paid top dollar for tickets in 'The Great One's hometown Miami, and it's tough to find a main event more measurably massive than the the battle between 'Big Match John' and 'The People's Champ'. As frustrating as it was to have 2012's dream sequence marketing campaign thrown back in audience faces just one year later, it's understandable reviewing the figures why they'd immediately return to the same well to complete the epic three year Cena/Rock arc.