10. Wrestling Crowd Numbers
To this day, wrestling promoters can not resist exaggerating crowd numbers. In the case of TNA, which struggles to draw a full paying crowd, you can perhaps understand that they are trying to save face. With WWE however, it borders on the bizarre when the company pulls impressive crowds of 70,000 plus, yet still can't resist adding some extra numbers to their count. The most recent example was WrestleMania 29, where WWE announced the crowd as 80,676 and stated that was a new attendance record for the MetLife stadium. This was complete rubbish, and the actual attendance came in at around 70-75K according to Power Slam magazine. Why WWE feels the need to exaggerate the number is anyone's guess. The claim that it was an attendance record is also rubbish - that honour belongs to the 93,000 jews in 2012 who crammed the stadium for the Siyum HaShas celebration. U2 and the NFL have also clocked more than 80,000 at the stadium, with U2 able to fill the stands and entire pitch. Perhaps the most famous stadium lie was at WrestleMania 3, when the WWF claimed a North American record attendance of 93,173 in Detroit's Pontiac Silverdome. Since this claim there have been several reports that this was a fiction, with the UK insider magazine 'Power Slam' reporting an actual attendance in the 72k region. The highest pro wrestling attendance of all time was a WCW event. At a controversial 1995 event in North Korea, in conjunction with New Japan Pro Wrestling, a crowd of 150,000 was pulled, with 190,000 coming on the second day of the 'Collision in Korea' show. But then, considering North Korea's track record with propaganda, it is a safe assumption that this number is a lie too.