It wouldn’t be post-WrestleMania season without WWE crunching numbers faster than a tax accountant on Red Bull—and this year, they’ve outdone even themselves.
According to an official press release (written in bold, likely while Vince chuckled from an office bathed in dollar-sign-shaped lights), WrestleMania 41 has been officially declared the “most successful and highest-grossing event in company history.”
Let’s break down the money-making chaos:
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💥 124,693 fans packed the stadiums over both nights. That’s more people than live in actual cities.
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📈 A 114% viewership increase, making it the most-watched WrestleMania ever.
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💸 Merch sales exploded—up 45% on-site and 86% online. Somewhere, a child is now wearing a Cena shirt their parents bought in a moment of crowd-hyped weakness.
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🛎️ Hospitality packages? Up 75%. Even the fans got worked into a suite.
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🎡 WWE World convention? 50,000+ attendees. Probably half of them in line for Roman Reigns foam gloves.
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📱 And with 1.1 billion social media views, WWE is now more viewed than cat videos and failed TikTok dances… combined.
Of course, no success story is complete without some controversy.
Night Two’s main event between Cody Rhodes and John Cena—a match promoted with full-on cinematic tension and eyebrow-raising betrayals—ended up getting the kind of mixed reception usually reserved for bad airline food.
Where was The Rock, the man who literally lit the Cena-Rhodes feud on fire at Elimination Chamber?
Why was Travis Scott there, and what did he do besides look confused and collect a check?
WWE didn’t address those questions. But they did drop the word “record-breaking” 14 times in the press release, so everything must be fine.
At the end of the day, the reaction may have been lukewarm, but the cash register was white hot. And in the WWE universe, that’s the only pop that truly matters.