Last year’s WrestleMania in Las Vegas easily shattered all prior records for ticket sales revenue in pro wrestling history. The two events combined for $66,074,558 in ticket sales, according to data obtained by POST Wrestling from live event trade publication Pollstar, figures not previously reported in the media. Pollstar did not provide a breakdown of sales for individual nights.
If the two nights broke down roughly evenly, each night generated about $33 million in sales, well beyond any pro wrestling event in history, even when taking inflation into account.
The events, which took place at Allegiant Stadium on April 19 and 20 last year, sold a total of 113,412 tickets. Attendance numbers from the authority that oversees the stadium previously disclosed that the attendance for each night was 58,538 on Saturday and 60,103 on Sunday, which totals to 118,641, a number higher than the count of tickets sold, according to Pollstar, suggesting the stadium authority’s attendance included more than just tickets sold.
It seems likely the revenue breakdown across the two nights is close to evenly split, with Sunday probably being slightly higher than Saturday, given the slightly higher attendance. Consistent with that, WrestleTix also estimated tickets distributed for Sunday (61,389) slightly higher than Saturday (60,151). A slightly more lucrative Sunday would also align with WrestleMania’s performance in 2024 in Philadelphia, when Night 1 drew $17,656,965 in ticket sales and Night 2 drew $18,433,325.
Night 1 in Las Vegas last year was main evented by a Seth Rollins win over Roman Reigns and CM Punk in a triple threat match. Night 2 concluded with John Cena winning the Undisputed WWE Title from Cody Rhodes.
Until WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas, Night 2 of WrestleMania 40 in Philadelphia stood as the highest gate in pro wrestling history in terms of real-time dollars. Adjusting for inflation, WrestleMania 32 in 2016 in Arlington, Texas, was the previous recordholder, with its $17.3 million gate equal to about $23 million today. Each night in Las Vegas last year surged past that number by about $10 million.
Record-breaking gates naturally coincide with record-breaking ticket prices
While WWE has repeatedly broken a variety of live event sales records, that’s part of a wider strategy by the company and its parent TKO to increase ticket prices, bringing them more in line with major concerts and those of TKO’s other major company, UFC. At the same time, WWE’s increased ticket prices have led to sticker shock from fans.
The average ticket sale for WrestleMania last year was about $635, nearly doubling the Philadelphia WrestleMania, the latter of which itself roughly doubled the WrestleMania before that in 2023 in Inglewood, California.
Beyond $66 million in ticket sales — a figure which likely doesn’t include vendor fees — WWE also benefited from a $5 million site fee from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), the taxpayer-funded organization that promotes tourism business, which is vital to the local economy. This reporter is currently petitioning the LVCVA in the Nevada district court in an effort to compel the agency to comply with the state’s public records law and produce records that would further the public’s understanding of its business dealings with WWE related to WrestleMania events in both 2025 and 2026.
In addition to the site fee, WWE qualified for another $4.2 million in tax credits through Nevada’s film program, bringing the incentives for last year’s WrestleMania to about $9.2 million.
WrestleMania will take place in Las Vegas again in April. It’s the first time WWE will hold its biggest annual event in the same location two years in a row. That’s a decision the company made after first announcing that WrestleMania would happen in New Orleans, before going back on the announcement to switch the location to Las Vegas. To date, according to WrestleTix estimates, ticket movement for this year’s WrestleMania in Las Vegas is decisively behind that of last year, around 37,000 tickets distributed for each night. With a similar number of days to go before the events, last year’s numbers were around 45,000 for each night.
As of this writing, the lowest price for a single ticket to either night is currently just over $200, according to Ticketmaster. It’s difficult to assess to what extent ticket prices for this year’s event might be even higher than last year’s. However, Allegiant Stadium recently promoted a limited-time discount offer on WrestleMania tickets, which is consistent with reporting that executives at WWE aren’t satisfied with sales for this year’s WrestleMania.
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Arena events also in Las Vegas in 2025 at the T-Mobile Arena, in the days surrounding WrestleMania, drew millions more in ticket sales. As reported previously, also based on Pollstar data, Smackdown on April 18 generated $2.5 million, NXT Stand & Deliver earlier in the day on Saturday drew $924,000, and the Raw after WrestleMania on April 21 drew $3.48 million. The latter would be among the highest arena gates in company history, though the biggest Raw gate ever was for the premiere on Netflix in January 2025, which drew $4.8 million in Los Angeles at the Intuit Dome.
