• TKO Lowers WrestleMania 42 Ticket Prices After CM Punk’s Pipebomb
CM Punk just scored a big win for the fans after his unscripted rant on RAW forced TKO to finally lower WrestleMania 42 ticket prices. On this week’s RAW, the World Heavyweight Champion took a shot at how expensive it has become to see WWE live. Since the TKO merger in 2023, prices have skyrocketed, leaving many regular fans priced out of the building.
According to Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live, TKO reacted almost instantly. For the first time, lower bowl tickets for WrestleMania 42 dropped below $2,000. While they aren’t cheap yet, the fact that they moved the needle at all shows Punk’s comments hit a nerve.
WWE tried to hide the drama by editing the ticket price comment out of the video they posted on X. However, the internet caught them, and the post was slapped with a Community Note calling out the edit.
There is talk behind the scenes that WWE might continue to adjust prices over the next few months.
WWE has confirmed that CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns for the World Heavyweight Championship will main event Night 2 of WrestleMania 42.
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• Triple H Admits Vince McMahon Was Involved In WWE Creative Before WrestleMania 40
At WrestleMania 40, WWE officially announced the beginning of the Triple H era.
During an interview on Cody Rhodes’ “What Do You Wanna Talk About?” podcast, Triple H was asked if WrestleMania 40 was the first WrestleMania fully under his creative control.
While answering the question, Triple H confirmed that Vince McMahon was still involved in the creative process prior to WrestleMania 40 in 2024, despite announcing his retirement in 2022.
Here’s what The Game said:
“I think so. Though, you know, there was, and again, this is where I’m terrible with times, but it’s not like one day, ‘here, it’s yours,’ and everything else went away, right?
There were so many aspects to that of, you know, ‘Hey, Vince is stepping away, you’re going to take this spot,’ but he’s still chiming in, he’s still meeting with me all the time, and he’s still directing traffic from the side.
There’s no real clear moment. It’s a weird situation. There’s no real clear moment for me, but I would consider it that, yes.
The only thing that is difficult in that transition, you’re trying to, at the end of the day, when people are like, ‘Yeah, but it’s your decision, right?’ You have to defend your position, and you have to be able to sell that to people and explain it to people.
If it’s a little bit not your position, or a little bit like, ‘Well, why did this happen?’ you don’t want to say, ‘Well, because it wasn’t totally my decision.’ Not because you don’t want to seem like you don’t have that power, but you have to position it that way.
It’s just such a complex situation. There are so many aspects to what we do, even just on a regular, general, daily basis, where you’re putting something out there and, in some manner, you’re like, ‘If, in an ideal world, I would do this.’ But we don’t live in an ideal world. We live in a realistic world where I can’t do that because of this, and I can’t do that because of that.
It can be something as simple as two people not getting along, or knowing someone has an injury that you can’t put out there. Whatever the moment, the sequence, the scenario is, there are so many factors to all of it.
I wish it was as simple as people think when they say, ‘Why don’t they just do this?’ I really wish it was that simple.”
