WWE WrestleMania 42 Ticket Sales Slower Than Expected, Company Reportedly Disappointed

WrestleMania 42 will be a sold-out show — but the road to get there has apparently been bumpier than WWE would have liked. On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that WWE discounted tickets for every show between now and June 9th by 31.6% for one day only, a move he described as highly unusual. “There have been many, many March 16ths in the last 10 years, and they’ve never done this before,” Meltzer said.

The discount follows a similar 20% Valentine’s Day sale that Alvarez noted “didn’t work at all.” Meltzer acknowledged the timing issue bluntly — as the event approaches, flights and hotels only get more expensive, making the later discount less effective than it would have been weeks ago.

Meltzer: WWE Is Clearly Disappointed, But the Show Will Still Be a Full House

Despite the slow burn on ticket sales, Meltzer was clear that WrestleMania 42 isn’t in danger of an embarrassing situation. “They’re still gonna have a full house. They’re not going in that building having big tarps all over the upper deck or anything like that.” But he added that the repeated discounting tells its own story. “Obviously they’re disappointed. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have done the sale on Valentine’s Day. They wouldn’t be second guessing so many things. There is a perception thing — they don’t want the perception being that you couldn’t sell it for WrestleMania.”