WWE: 165K attended WrestleMania events

If you felt like you were surrounded by wrestling fans recently in Central Florida, that’s because you were.

WWE events drew a total attendance of 165,000 from March 30 through Tuesday, according to figures released by the promotion on Thursday.

That total includes a reported 75,245 for WrestleMania at Camping World Stadium; four sellout crowds at Amway Center for the Hall of Fame induction, NXT TakeOver, Raw and Smackdown Live; and six sessions of the WrestleMania Axxess fan festival at Orange County Convention Center.

The five sellouts in one city in one week is a WWE record — this is the first time the company has loaded this many arena events into one city during WrestleMania week.

Just for Sunday’s big event, headlined by Roman Reigns’ victory over the Undertaker, ticket sales totaled $14.5 million, the highest total in the history of the stadium, outpacing the Rolling Stones’ visit in 2015. WWE reported merchandise sales of $3.7 week.

With the advent of the streaming WWE Network, the promotion called Sunday the most-watched WrestleMania in history, reaching 1.95 million global households with payper-view data still to come.

There were dozens of other wrestling events in Central Florida beyond WWE.

Ring of Honor’s Supercard of Honor event in Lakeland on Saturday night, topped by the Young Bucks' victory over the Hardy Boys in a ladder match, drew an estimated 3,500 fans. The promotion reported it as the largest attendance for any ROH show in at least six years.

WrestleCon took over the Wyndham Orlando hotel for the weekend, and while the promotion didn’t release official figures, the Wrestling Observer reported that the event’s Supershow on Friday night attracted 1,750 fans. A Progress Wrestling show that same afternoon at Orlando Live Events in Casselberry reported attendance of 1,600, according to the Observer. million for the