Wrestlemania 40 is coming to Philadelphia in April 2024 and wrestling fans swarmed to buy tickets to the pay-per-view event.
More than 90,000 tickets were sold for the two-day event in Philadelphia, breaking the all-time gate record set last year at Wrestlemania 39 in Los Angeles.
The event, scheduled for Saturday, April 6, and Sunday, April 7, will take place at Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Philadelphia Is The Perfect Place For Wrestlemania 40
WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes believes Philly is the “perfect spot” for WrestleMania 40.
“I’d say a Philly wrestling crowd is a contrarian wrestling crowd,” he told Isabella DiAmore of the Philadelphia Inquirer. “Whatever the narrative might be, Philly is not going to guarantee you that they’re going along with that narrative. In a sense that, if they really liked someone, they’re going to let you know, and if they don’t like someone that perhaps they’re supposed to, they will also let you know.”
Wrestlemania Returning To Philly For First Time Since 1999
WrestleMania 40 will be the first time the show returns to Philadelphia since WrestleMania 15 in 1999. That year, ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin defeated The Rock for the WWE Championship in what has become one of the most iconic matches in Wrestlemania history.
It will mark the first time the annual event will be held in the northeast of the US since WrestleMania 35 in East Rutherford, New Jersey
