10 Weird (But TRUE) Facts For WWE In 2025

9. Fans At The Gates

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Attendance figures for 2025 won’t be finalized until the calendar has flipped to 2026, but there are some early indicators that things could be softening for WWE – at least for the weekly television programs.

Recent Saturday Night’s Main Event broadcasts have seen a decline in fans, as has SmackDown in quarter-year comparisons. WWE Raw attendance is up overall though, so it will be interesting to see what the final figures bear out.

However, WWE has focused more on larger stadium shows, in some cases breaking up PLEs over a two-day period. WrestleMania has been a two-day affair since 2020, but SummerSlam was split into two nights for the first time this year. There’s always a chance that Royal Rumble, Survivor Series or even Money in the Bank (events where there are two huge gimmick matches on the card) could be divided into two separate shows.

As a result, WWE boasted five PLE shows this year with more than 50,000 fans in attendance (both nights of WrestleMania and SummerSlam, and Royal Rumble), while a sixth PLE, Survivor Series, had more than 40,000 fans present. Both are records for big show attendances for WWE PLEs.

And this doesn’t even touch on ticket prices…

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.