9 Most Obscure WWE WrestleMania Records You Need To Know

9. Biggest Attendance Exaggeration

WWE adamantly claims that they are in the entertainment business and that everything on their shows exists to entertain the fans. That also includes the WrestleMania attendance announcement, which famously has been referred to as part of the entertainment during the show.

The company’s tradition of over inflating the attendance figures at Mania is an annual tradition, with the most famous occurring way back at WrestleMania III, where the WWF announced that 93,178 fans had jammed into the Silverdome to see Hulk Hogan bodyslam Andre the Giant. The real figure has been tough to pin down, though many have settled on 78,500, a discrepancy of about 15,000.

But that’s not even close to the biggest attendance fib WWE has told at the Showcase of the Immortals.

These days, between excellent analysis from the likes of Wrestlenomics and @WrestleTix and WWE’s own corporate reports, determining the “true attendance” at WrestleMania each year has gotten more accurate. Since 2008, WWE has inflated the actual attendance by anywhere from 6,000 to more than 20,000 for single night Manias, with WrestleMania 32 – with its preposterous announced crowd of 101,763 being 21,000 greater than what the Arlington Police confirmed – as the biggest exaggeration.

But the advent of two-night WrestleManias has given WWE an opportunity to double their fish tales about crowd size. And that’s exactly what they did once crowds returned to normal post-pandemic. WrestleMania 38 had a two-day announced total of 156,352 fans, while Wrestlenomics pegged the paid attendance at 114,300, a discrepancy of more than 42,000.

They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and apparently that includes the exaggeration of crowd sizes.