Has the 'Mania buyrate been announced yet?
 

I'm just wondering what it pulled in compared primarily to recent years. Especially with the "20 million dollars" spent on Mayweather...

(Yes, I know he wasn't paid that...Hence the quotes...Before anyone decides to point it out)

He was NOT paid twen—

Oh.

:lol:

20 Bucks and Cab Fare.

No they haven't announced anything yet.

World Wrestling Entertainment® set both attendance and ticket sale records at WrestleMania XXIV tonight at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando.
WWE® grossed more than $5.85 million in ticket sales, making it the highest grossing live event in WWE history and in the history of the Citrus Bowl.
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Still no buyrate info, but there is that. I'm surprised they haven't announced at least preliminary data yet.

On a related note, the ratings for the first Raw after Mania are in. Raw did hours of 3.5 and 3.2, which is hugely up from before Mania. Unfortunately, it's not musch stronger than recent weeks, and this is COMING OFF OF THE BIGGEST EVENT OF THE YEAR.

It obviously didn't do what they wanted. The question now is how badly they did do, since they released the overnights last year right away.

Yeah, we can be certain that if it did well, it'd be all over the place.

That Raw was MAKE OR BREAK IT for WWE and the ratings it pulled were UNACCEPTABLE.

Well, it's obvious why. Old guys like CM PUNK are getting PUSHED while guys in their PRIME like MARK HENRY are PUSHED TO THE SIDE!

How is it obviously worse than they wanted? I had read estimates of 1.4 million as of that monday morning. Of course, these could be wrong. But that would make it more bought than wrestlemania 23 was, with encores all week to add on.

That was Yahoo!Sports that reported the new WWE record for buys, as well as Mayweather promotions.

I'm not sure if this is true, that remains to be seen. But take that as you will. I don't understand "it obviously didn't do what they wanted"

If it did what they wanted they would have released the preliminary numbers asap and pushed them. By now they would be out.

Well I think they wanted 2 million buys, which is nearly double what they set the record with last year. So I highly doubt they met that goal, but I don't think anything could have met that goal.
1.4 million + buys is hardly dissapointing. It's the record.

I'd like to see that, actually. Thing is, I haven't. Which is why this thread was made in the first place. I mean, if you're sitting on info, by all means, share. However comma, WWE hasn't mentioned anything so far, even on their corporate site.

And the fact that they're bragging about other figures and not bringing this up kind of does indicate, you know...Bad things.

Well I highly doubt Wrestlemania did bad things. I'll try to find the Yahoo story asap. I still don't see how the assumptions you guys are making are more credible than a major news outlets reporting. I'm not aruging you guys really either, just presenting what I heard and where I heard it from.

I'll look into it

Also, aren't you two the ones who were spelling doom and insisting that it would fail, and that "people didn't know who Mayweather was" and all that. I mean, with all due respect, don't you guys kinda want it to fail so that you're right? That might be why you think it failed.

They would cum in their pants if they did 2 million buys.

Ideally, they wanted 1.4 million. I think it's touch and go if they got it. I'd be shocked if they didn't hit 1.2 million anyway.

They stated that was their goal. Of course, nobody including them expected it. I think they just said that

I'm not finding that story, but I know for a fact I read it on Yahoo Sports. If anyone wants to help me search for it, or a similar story feel free.

Found it...

http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news;_yl...ki-floyd040208

There are no hard Mania-related numbers that I noticed (I skimmed it), but there's this:

"The WWE isn’t expected to release pay-per-view results until next week, though Ellerbe said he was told the show has already done better than the previous record of 1.25 million sales."

I love how hard you're trying to push a motive on us.

But still, your stupidity aside, can you explain why they wouldn't be running with these numbers if they were so good? WWE generally broadcasts their numbers when they're hot and hides them when they're not. Last week's Raw is another such example. So if the numbers were as good as or better than expected, wouldn't they run with that?

I mean, they're already running with the arena sales.

Wasn't Yahoo! Sports also reporting Mayweather as making 20 million dollars?

Which contradicts this, in the same article:

He is part of the best-selling bout in boxing history and his appearance at WrestleMania 24 on Sunday in Orlando, Fla., was such a hit, Ellerbe says, that the wrestling pay-per-view record of 1.25 million is expected to be topped.

Note the word "expected."

On a side note, does anyone else kind of expect promoters to say things which are, you know, Bullshit?

If it didn't top 1.25 I'll be a monkey's uncle

If Mayweather didn't make 20 million dollars, Jeritron will probably still be a monkey's uncle.

Well you know how figures can be made up, 77% of TPWW knows that.

Do you have a source for this? 82% seems highly dubious.

His source is Yahoo.

In related news, Mayweather made 20 million dollars. I saw in on Yahoo.

I demand a link for this 82%

In related news, wrestlemania failed because I say so

come on dude, man the fuck up

Man up to your retarded assertions?

Can I make up your argument for you and then scream at you to man up, too?

I would have simply used the term "strawman," but that would doubtless involve Terranrich and Afterlife.

Misinformation. They want you to believe it didn't do well so they can say 'hey you, we did great, see you next year. Meanwhile on Raw, we have people dressed up as Hilary and Barack fight in the ring, watch RAW!'

So it's a swerve? BRILLIANT!

I wonder how long we'll have to wait to see the buyrate, though.