WrestleMania: WWE planning on keeping event as two nights

WrestleMania 38 is being billed as the most stupendous two-night in WrestleMania in history but going forward it may have some competition.

WWE made the decision to expand WrestleMania over two nights in 2020. Giving fans who couldn’t be in attendance because of the global pandemic, a two-night extravaganza for WrestleMania 36.

That trend continued last year, with WrestleMania 37 held over two nights in Tampa, Florida and then again for 2022 with this year’s showpiece set to take place over the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd of April in Dallas.

Now, according to Dave Meltzer on the Sunday Night’s Main Event podcast, the two-night model is here to stay. Commenting on WrestleMania weekend, he says the impression he gets is that WWE will keep it running over two nights.

I think WrestleMania is gonna be a 2-night thing going forward. I think was the first step to see will people buy and they bought in good enough numbers. Did it sell out first day, were the original numbers gigantic? No, but it’s fine. It’s a big stadium. It wasn’t gonna be easy to sell it out two straight days.”

They haven’t announced 2 days for next year but I think it’s better to go for 2 days. It’s just the nature of what WrestleMania has become. There’s more money to be made and it’s better for the shows…”

I talked to people there and they certainly gave me the impression that the idea is 2 days going forward. They always can change their mind based on what happens. I think that they all thought that a 7-hour show just doesn’t work. That’s more tiring than the 2 days.

Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns in the winner takes all, title unification match will main event night two of WrestleMania from the AT & T Stadium, but it’s yet unclear what will be headline the