– WWE released the following press release:

WRESTLEMANIA® BREAKS MORE RECORDS

STAMFORD, CONN. – April 7, 2016 – In addition to setting a new attendance record of 101,763 fans, which led to the highest-grossing live event in WWE history at $17.3 million, WrestleMania also broke records for digital and social media engagement and merchandise sales.

Digital/Social Media

WrestleMania 32 was the most social event in WWE history, according to Nielsen Social with 2.5 million mentions on Twitter throughout the day and 1.3 million mentions during the broadcast alone, an increase of 50 percent and 18 percent year-over-year, respectively.

WWE-related content saw more than 250 million video views across WWE.com, WWE App and social media during WrestleMania Week, an increase of 122 percent year-over-year.

WrestleMania set data usage records, totaling 8.6TB on the AT&T network. This set a new record for data traffic at AT&T Stadium, an increase of 36 percent over the data traffic during the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in 2015.

WWE Network

WrestleMania reached 1.82 million global households on WWE Network alone, making it the most-watched WrestleMania in history, with pay-per-view data still forthcoming.
WWE Network subscribers viewed 21.7 million hours during WrestleMania Week or 12 hours per subscriber during the week. This compares to 15 million hours last year, a year-over-year increase of 45 percent.

Merchandise Sales

WWE generated a record-breaking $4.55 million in WrestleMania merchandise revenue, an increase of 37 percent or $1.2 million, from last year’s previous record at WrestleMania 31.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. DID YOU KNOW?

    You can’t believe ANY of this because WWE toots its own horn, and inflates numbers, as proven by the attendance for this last Mania.

    WWE papers their attendance anyways.

  2. Rene DuPree is suing WWE.

    I love when WWE gets sued.

    They treat people like pieces of meat, all under a PG facade. And their wellness policy is a joke.

    I hate WWE as a company – they killed the industry in the 80s, when Vince K. used Daddy’s money to buy all the good talent, causing all those great companies like the AWA, Mid South, Memphis, and all those territories to shut down.

    Vince didn’t create anything, he just had Daddy’s money to BUY all the good talent out there.

    Then he became the only game in town, and we are left with his twisted PG garbage, shoving Reigns down people’s throats, and using blood capsules.

    Thank god for TNA (which has been really good), ROH, and NJPW.

  4. You can still get second row seats for Payback.

    LMAO

    STILL think WWE is perfect and Vince is God?????

    Looks like people love Reigns.

    smh

  5. It’s funny – I saw a Universe member on another site saying that TNA has no “Star Power”.

    As God is my witness, when Sting, Flair, and Hogan were in TNA, three of the biggest stars in history, the SAME IDIOT was saying how TNA is garbage because all they do is promote the old guys, and don’t feature younger stars.

    NOW these young guys are being featured, and he/she’s complaining that there are no “stars”.

    Moral of story – no matter what TNA does – some idiots will just take the angle of bashing TNA no matter what.

    TNA has done a LOT of things right in the last year and have improved the product and they get no credit for it. It is being ignored and the WWE water carriers can’t or won’t acknowledge it. Dixie has learned a lot and it shows in the product.

    Corgan is doing a good job.

    People still crucify TNA like Bischoff and Hogan are still there.

    That’s ok – just makes me love TNA even more and HATE WWE even more.

    God bless.

  6. I’m happy!

    I’m excited about going to Global Wars in May. I will be there.

    GO ROH!

    GO NJPW!

    GO TNA!!!!

    The three best brands in the biz.

    🙂

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