THEY SAY THAT records were made to be broken—but, sometimes, that can take a really long time. In the case of the attendance record for pro wrestling in Southern California, it took 52 years.
On Saturday, April 1, 2023, night one of WrestleMania 39 drew 80,497 people into SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, smashing that age-old record. Ironically, the new record stood for only one day until it was broken by night two of WrestleMania 39, which packed 81,395 into SoFi to see Cody Rhodes’s disappointing loss to WWE Universal champion Roman Reigns.
The new record is more than three times the
