All about the "Greatest Event in Live Entertainment"!
The Showcase of Immortals
"To be a part of something as big as WrestleMania, the pinnacle of wrestling business, its just phenomenal." - AJ Styles
Often dubbed as "The Showcase of Immortals", WrestleMania is an annual wrestling event emanated under the umbrella of multi-billion dollar company World Wrestling Entertainment (the WWE). It is one of the longest-running and the most successful pro-wrestling event in the history. WrestleMania's widespread success helped transform professional wrestling. The event has facilitated the rise to stardom of several top WWE wrestlers. Multiple celebrities and athletes from other sports like Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Snoop Dogg, Donald Trump, MGK, Shaquille O' Neal, Rob Gronkowski, etc have made their special appearances within the events throughout the year. Many of the iconic and legendary names in wrestling have showed their excellence in this event like The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, The Rock, John Cena, Randy Orton, etc.
The first WrestleMania was held in Madison Square Garden in New York City. WrestleMania III in the Detroit suburb of Pontiac, Michigan was the highest-attended indoor sports event in the world, with 93,173 fans in attendance , this record was broken in 2010 by NBA. In 2016, WrestleMania 32 surpassed WrestleMania III as the highest-attended professional wrestling event ever held in America, with 101,763 fans in attendance at AT&T Stadium.
Main-eventing WrestleMania is the epitome of a wrestler's career which puts them into the category of superstardom with the likes of The Undertaker(mainevented 4 WrestleMania), The Rock(mainevented 4 WrestleMania), Hulk Hogan(mainevented 5 consecutive WrestleMania). Fans from all round the globe, attend this event which makes it the biggest extravaganza in all of live entertainment. The stadium where it is held is always jampacked.
The legendary wrestler, also regarded as one of the greatest wrestler, The Undertaker has the most wins in this events with 25 wins and 2 loses. He also has the longest undefeated streak in this event with 21 consecutive wins, meaning undefeated for 21 years and this streak was broken in WrestleMania30 by Brock Lesnar. According to ESPN, this streak is comparable to Floyd Mayweather's undefeated streak in Boxing.
All in all, WrestleMania is where wrestler becomes superstars, superstars becomes legends, legends become icons and icons become immortalized, so it is called "The Showcase of the Immortals".