Wrestlemania 23 buyrate announced

Vince135792003

From the observer site:

WWE announced today that the first estimate on buys from Wrestlemania was 1.2 million, making it the largest pro wrestling PPV event in history.

It would be the biggest event so far this year on PPV, although Saturday's Oscar de la Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight is expected to easily beat the total.

The total domestic buys would have been approximately 768,000, so it was nowhere even close to the company record in the core North American market. Even last year, it would have ranked only No. 4 among PPV events as a whole behind one Oscar de la Hoya boxing match and two UFC events headlined by Tito Ortiz.

Last year's show did about 980,000 total buys and 636,000 in the North Ameican market.


Hair draws.

Minto

I'm not surprised. I expected it to hit the million mark. I guess all that marketing and trump worked out.

ShawnRaven

Oh god, this steaming pile of crap PPV is gonna be heralded as the greatest selling Mania of all time?

Now i'm sad
VR!

Minto

validreasoning! wrote:

Oh god, this steaming pile of crap PPV is gonna be heralded as the greatest selling Mania of all time?

Now i'm sad
VR!

Mania wasn't that bad. WWE could have made it better, but it wasn't to bad on a whole. At least I didn't come away from it thinking "...wow, that sucked"*

*=My reaction to the last 2 or 3 TNA PPVs.

ShawnRaven

Minto wrote:

Mania wasn't that bad. WWE could have made it better, but it wasn't to bad on a whole. At least I didn't come away from it thinking "...wow, that sucked"*

*=My reaction to the last 2 or 3 TNA PPVs.

I actually haven't enjoyed Mania since X7 truth be known. I think they did it all with the perfect PPV and expectations have been quite lofty since then, thats just my own personal opinion. But i really felt that this years was somewhat lacklustre, especially when the main draw for the entire event was Lashley v Umaga because Trump was at ringside. Thats disturbing and a testament to the steady decline that pro wrestling is suffering right now.

And i agree, TNA isn't a basis for comparison. I'm comparing more to what WWE could once churn out, and the crap that it's churning out now.

VR!

Vince135792003

Its a testament to good promotion and programming for about 8-10 weeks leading up to the show.

krudler

validreasoning! wrote:

Oh god, this steaming pile of crap PPV is gonna be heralded as the greatest selling Mania of all time?

Now i'm sad
VR!

thats only cos you werent there

ShawnRaven

I'm glad i wasn't! If i'd paid a few hundred to be a witness to that muck, i'd be crying in my beer! Had it been 3, 8, 10, 14 or 17, yeah i'd be envious that i wasn't there, but certainly not after the last few Manias!

VR!

krudler

validreasoning! wrote:

I'm glad i wasn't! If i'd paid a few hundred to be a witness to that muck, i'd be crying in my beer! Had it been 3, 8, 10, 14 or 17, yeah i'd be envious that i wasn't there, but certainly not after the last few Manias!

VR!

the MITB,benoit/mvp and both world title matches were all great,it was no worse than other wrestlemania,and the trump/vince match was really entertaining,plus the experience was worth every penny,its the one thing every wrestling fan should try and attend once in their lives

ShawnRaven

I found both world title matches bland as hell to be honest, although MITB was amazing match, i will agree with you there, but one or two matches does not save a PPV overall in my opinion.

I'd have probably bothered to try to attend Mania between 2000 and 2003 if i had the cash up at the time. But how i'm feeling about current WWE programming atm, i have little or no interest.

Glad you had a good time, i've yet to attend any event where i was truly let down, and i'd hate it to happen to me if it did.

VR!