Aug 19, 11:05 PM
A new report shows just how much WrestleMania attendance declined in 2026
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The build to WrestleMania 42 left a bad taste in the mouths of a lot of wrestling fans, especially with the way Pat McAfee was forced into the WWE championship feud between Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton. WWE’s sluggish ticket sales for its biggest event of the year actually became a major talking point in kayfabe, to the extent where CM Punk told TKO to lower ticket prices, and then McAfee pulled some strings to make it happen. As far as those ticket sales are concerned, it didn’t help that WWE decided to run the show in Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium for the second straight year, after initially bringing in The Rock to announce WrestleMania 42 was taking place in New Orleans. WWE ended up announcing attendance figures of 50,816 for WrestleMania Saturday and 55,255 for WrestleMania Sunday. The sum of 106,071 for WWE’s two night attendance figure was down about 15% from the number it announced in the same venue in 2025 (124,693). Folks who are understandably skeptical of WWE’s publicly ann