WWE WrestleMania 40 by Numbers (Statistics, Records & Facts)
WWE WrestleMania is one of the greatest professional wrestling events in the world. This year’s event marks the 40th edition of Mania, represented as WrestleMania 40.
Throughout the years, the showcase of immortals witnessed almost everything from championship changing, underdog prevailing, dream coming true, emotional moments, maintaining the streak, undefeatables getting dethroned, unforgettable returns, major debuts, celebrity involvement and more. Now we take a look at something that is statistical, as we came out with WrestleMania by numbers.
WrestleMania Attendance record
WM 32 holds the most in-arena attendance record in the history of the event with 101,763. However, WM 36 holds the lowest with 0 in-ring attendance due to COVID-19 restrictions. Over two million members have witnessed the grand show in person.
Viewership
WM 39 holds the record for most viewerships with 500 million views for 11 million hours of content in just a weekend.
Matches
In total 403 matches have been held on the show-of-shows involving 443 superstars, where 103 of them are now Hall of Famers. The show of shows featured 20 Battle Royals, 12 Ladder Matches, 4 Hall in a Cell matches & 1 Jackass Rules match. A total of 83 World title matches were held, where 47 new World Champions were crowned.
Most Women’s Title Matches
Rhea Ripley will tie Charlotte Flair’s record by featuring in most number of title matches in a row with 5 at Mania, when she defends her Women’s World Championship against Becky Lynch.
Gunther
Gunther’s Intercontinental Championship will reach the 666 days reign, defending it for the second time in a row at Mania.
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Most championship wins at WrestleMania
John Cena has won the most number of championship titles at Mania with 4. He has a 75% success rate in the world title matches including seven championship matches from 2005 to 2011.
Most WrestleMania matches
The Undertaker wrestled in the most number of Mania matches with 27 appearances. Taker has consecutively won 21 Manias in a row from 1991 to 2013. However when it comes to active roster, Randy Orton has the most Mania appearances with 19 who will be facing Logan Paul & Kevin Owens for the United States Championship
Most WrestleMania wins
Taker also owns the most Mania wins with 25 wins and two losses, of which he maintained the undefeated Streak for 21 consecutive wins.
Most time spent inside the ring
Triple H owns the record for most time spent inside the ring. In his 24 matches at WrestleMania, Triple H spent 8 hours 12 minutes 46 seconds. This makes him the ironman of WrestleMania.
Longest time spent in a single match
Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart spent the most time inside a singles wrestling match at WM 12. They spent a total of 1 hour 1 minutes and 56 seconds.
Shortest matches
The Rock owns the record for winning the shortest Mania match, by pinning Eric Rowan of Wyatt family in just 6 seconds.
Celebrities
The most celebrated show has featured a number of celebrities from different profession including 13 Emmy Award Winners, 24 champions from other sports, 27 Grammy Award Winners.
Most viral moment
Last year at WrestleMania 39, Logan Paul’s cross body splash over KSI received 80 Million impressions.
Most Main Events
At WrestleMania 40, Roman Reigns will set a new WrestleMania record by surpassing Hulk Hogan in the main event for the 9th time.
WrestleMania 40 Main Event
This is the first time two wrestlers (Roman Reigns & Cody Rhodes) are main-eventing both nights of WrestleMania. Cody Rhodes is the first back to back Royal Rumble winner to main event WrestleMania after 1998. This is the third time a championship rematch is main eventing back to back at WrestleMania.
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