DrAwkward wrote:Wikipedia wrote:WrestleMania 23 was the twenty-third annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. It took place on April 1, 2007 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The event was the first WrestleMania at Ford Field, but the second to take place in the Detroit metropolitan area (following WrestleMania III, where a record-setting 93,173 fans filled the Pontiac Silverdome in 1987).
Tickets for the event went on sale on November 11, 2006. The all-time attendance record at Ford Field of 80,103 consisted of people from 24 countries, all 50 states and 9 Canadian provinces, pumped an estimated US$25 million into the local economy, and made this event the highest grossing one-day live event in WWE history, grossing more than $5.38 million in ticket sales. This made WrestleMania 23 the highest-grossing pay-per-view in WWE history as well as the highest-grossing event in professional wrestling history in North America, breaking the previous record of $3.9 million held at WrestleMania X8. This was also the third largest audience to gather for a WWF/WWE pay-per-view after WrestleMania III and SummerSlam 1992, which featured an attendance of 80,355.
yeah and Journey sold millions of records as well. That does not mean they were making quality music.
I am not saying it's stopped being popular, as it's still going strong and making Vince lots of money...what I am saying is that it is creatively dead.
I was a huge fan of the early to mid 80's stuff, the improv stuff with no scripts and anything went.
Wrestling was so much fun because of the competition between the major companies had them always trying to outdo each other with goofiness and insanity.
There is no competition anymore, thus it sucks real bad because it can and still get by.
Wrestling gave up too many of it's secrets as well, people know what's up and it has killed it.
