• WWE Breaks All-Time Record With WrestleMania 39
WWE announced the following today about WrestleMania 39 (aka WrestleMania Hollywood):
“WWE® (NYSE: WWE) today announced that WrestleMania Goes Hollywood (WrestleMania 39), which will originate from SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles across two nights, broke the company’s all-time gate record for any WrestleMania, despite having yet to announce a single match. The previous record announced was $17.3 million in 2016 at WrestleMania 32 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
The record gate comes on the heels of unprecedented ticket sales demand for WWE in 2022, in which it produced the highest-grossing gates of all-time for Royal Rumble, Survivor Series and Extreme Rules. Clash at the Castle in Cardiff, Wales, which marked WWE’s first major stadium show in the U.K. in 30 years, was the highest-grossing U.K. event in company history.
Additionally, WWE set in-market gate records for SmackDown and Raw events in more than 20 markets for the year, including the December 30 SmackDown, which took place in Tampa, Fla. and heralded the return of WWE Superstar John Cena.
Limited single and two-day combo tickets for WrestleMania Goes Hollywood can still be purchased through Ticketmaster.com. The event streams live on Saturday, April 1 and Sunday, April 2 exclusively on Peacock in the United States and WWE Network everywhere else.”
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 9, 2017) – WWF Veteran Passes Away
On this day in 2017, we lost Old School WWF Tag Team Veteran Timothy Well (Real name: Timothy Alan Smith) at the age of 55 due to kidney failure .
Most Old School fans remember him from the WWF Tag Team ‘Well Dunn’, which was him and Steven Dunn. They wrestled on WWF TV from 1993 till 1995 and appeared in the 1995 Royal Rumble match.
In various other territories they were mostly known as ‘The Southern Rockers’ Rex King (Timothy Well) & Steve Doll (Steven Dunn).
† R.I.P. TIMOTHY WELL
September 8, 1961 – January 9, 2017
