Wrestlemania - What?

[Hellbringer]

So I thought I would surprise my kids and order it. They aren't big wrestling fans, but they love the Rock. And since I just got back from a month long trip, I figured, "hey, we can sit down as a family as watch it. It's gotta be like 20 bucks, 30 tops."


Uhhhh, wrong.

It's 60 dollars. In the words of Stone Cold Steve Austin's fans? "What?!?!?"


So, it got me thinking, how many people do get PPV events to watch? And I'm not talking about wrestling. There's MMA, Sports passes, annual events. Who pays to watch things like these?

[Litmaster]

60 bucks?!?? No fucking way.

[scbubba]

Man, I don't even order on-demand movies and those are only $2-3... But I'm a cheapskate for sure.

I don't think I've done PPV since before Mike Tyson started chewing ears...

[nikvoodoo]

Wrestlemania has always been expensive. When I first started watching it was 39 bucks or so. This was in the early 90s.

As for the amount of people who watch, last year 1 million PPV buys, this year should be close or just under that. WWE relies on the one time customer every year to buy the show. Like me. I don't buy anything else but mania.

[Hellbringer]

I'm hoping that they only charged 60 bucks because it's Wrestlemania, the most famous of all their PPV. If they charge 60 for all the others, that doesn't make it special in my mind. (I'm thinking...

[nikvoodoo]

Typical non-wrestlemania PPV for the 'E are around 40-50 bucks a pop for the HD feed. Wrestlemania is always more expensive.

Rock is under contract for 3 more years so he should be back for Wrestlemania next year, but I'm pretty sure he was heading off to shoot another movie within the next month or so. Jericho is off, HHH is off, Undertaker is always off, Brock Lesnar's contract is up....back to the regular dregs of the roster now.