13 secrets you missed over WrestleMania weekend

How many people attended WrestleMania in Dallas’ AT&T Stadium? According to The Rock, who showed up towards the end of the marquee event, 101,763 were in attendance – a number has been questioned by others in the wrestling media, who claim figures closer to 94,000 fans are closer to the truth. Either way, the show set a new attendance record for a WrestleMania crowd that spent over $17 million at the gate, and who witnessed a near seven-hour event that overran its scheduled end time by a staggering 51 minutes and 57 seconds

Such an overrun would normally be a problem for the PPV suppliers, but these days WWE’s most focused on its WWE Network business. And here it’s set a new record, too: 1.82 million subscribers by the time WrestleMania took place marked a new high for the service, up 39% from the night after 2015’s WrestleMania. Those subscribers bore witness to more records at the show: a six-second Rock victory against Erick Rowan (the fastest ever for a ’Mania match), and Shane McMahon diving off a Hell In A Cell. We’ve seen people plunge from the smaller cells of old, but this insane leap was off the taller, 20ft structure.

Finally, we have the number five: the correct number of results out of the ten total matches that we simulated in WWE 2K16 to generate our WrestleMania 32 weekend predictions last week. That represents a 50% success rate for the game (it correctly called wins for Kalisto, Brock Lesnar, Undertaker, Roman Reigns and Finn Balor), though given that the eventual Intercontinental ladder match champion Zack Ryder wasn’t even taking part in our simulation, it’s only fair to wipe that match from the record books and award 2K a 56% success rate. Not a bad end result for the official videogame of WWE.