“An event that cements legacy, affirms dominance, crowns champions and creates immortals. WrestleMania.” –WrestleMania 24 Opening Video Package
The Show of Shows, the Grandest Stage of Them All, and the Showcase of Immortals are all monikers that describe the WWE’s flagship event, WrestleMania. Starting 26 years ago within the legendary walls of Madison Square Garden, WrestleMania has grown into an international phenomenon. Each year WrestleMania draws wrestling fans from over 20 countries. In the last few years, the WWE has brought WerstleMania to much larger football stadiums that house close to 70 thousand people. This new addition has added to the spectacle of the show. Now WrestleMania is literally the largest wrestling show of the year. There are many things that differentiate WrestleMania from every other wrestling PPV. Over the next few weeks leading to WrestleMania 27 here on The Silverdome, I will be looking at these WrestleMania-related subjects to get ready for the big show. The first subject is the Spectacle of WrestleMania.
The scale, the grandeur, the celebrities, the matches, the pyrotechnics are all part of the spectacle that is WrestleMania. WrestleMania has evolved from just a four hour event to a whole week experience. The week before WrestleMania, the WWE and its superstars invade whichever city that will host the Show of Shows and put on various events and public appearances across the city. Like other sporting events such as the Super Bowl, WrestleMania does wonders to boosting the tourism of the hosting city. As huge as WrestleMania week with WrestleMania Axcess, the WWE Hall of Fame and other events is, the one thing that everybody is waiting for is the actual WrestleMania event. Unlike many of the other PPVs WWE puts on throughout the year, WrestleMania is not just about the matches. It is also about the excellent, humongous and intricate sets, the insane amounts of pyrotechnics, the celebrity appearances and involvement, the iconic moments and the intimate atmosphere. WrestleMania is a treat for the eyes and the ears for all those watching the PPV from home. But any wrestling fans dream is to be part of the live crowd at the Grandest Stage of them All.
WrestleMania is an experience like no other. It is the pinnacle of sports-entertainment. From Hulk Hogan slamming Andre the Giant at WrestleMania III to Undertaker causing Shawn Michaels to retire at WrestleMania XXVI, some of the greatest matches and iconic moments in WWE and wrestling history have taken place at WrestleMania. Without this one event, professional wrestling would not be as popular as it is today. WrestleMania is the stage where the superstars of the WWE solidify themselves as champions and immortals in the hollows of this industry. WretleMania has a different meaning for everybody. For me, personally, WrestleMania is biggest sporting event of the year. Bigger than the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup Finals, the NBA Finals and the World Series combined. It is the one event that I wait for every single year to watch. Then anxiously wait for it to come on DVD in order to actually own a piece of wrestling history and to watch it yet again. These events have become a tradition for me.
Now I would like to put this question to everybody reading. What does WrestleMania mean to you? Think about this question and please respond in the comment section below.
With only four weeks left until WrestleMania 27 from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, The Road to WrestleMania 27 series will continue next Saturday. The topic of part two is something more sacred and guarded accomplishment in all of professional wrestling. It is bigger than any championship or accolade in this business. It is The Streak.
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