WrestleMania 35

WrestleMania 35
WrestleMania 35
	Promotional poster featuring various WWE wrestlers
Promotion	WWE
Brand(s)	Raw; SmackDown; 205 Live
Date	April 7, 2019
City	East Rutherford, New Jersey
Venue	MetLife Stadium
Attendance	68,000–70,000
Buy rate	65,000 (excluding WWE Network views)
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WrestleMania 35 was the 35th annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brand divisions. The event took place on April 7, 2019, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It included the first-ever women's main event match in WrestleMania history. It was also the first WrestleMania since WrestleMania 2000 to not feature The Undertaker. It was also the final WrestleMania to be held as a one-night event; the following year, WrestleMania was expanded to two nights.

The card comprised 16 matches, including four on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, Becky Lynch defeated Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey and SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair in a Winner Takes All triple threat match to win both championships. In a main match from SmackDown, Kofi Kingston defeated Daniel Bryan to win his first WWE Championship, and in the opening bout, which was a main match from Raw, Seth Rollins defeated Brock Lesnar to win his first Universal Championship. The event also saw the final matches of two veteran wrestlers: Kurt Angle lost his farewell match against Baron Corbin, and Batista lost a No Holds Barred match against Triple H and retired after the event. Additionally, this was the final WrestleMania to feature Triple H as an in-ring competitor as he retired in 2022 due to a cardiac event. This also marked the last time the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal was contested at a WrestleMania itself.

^ Observer Staff (August 1, 2019). "August 5, 2019 Observer Newsletter: WWE financials breakdown, AEW TV taping details, more". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Archived from the original on August 1, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2019. WWE announced 82,265 fans at WrestleMania, the usual fake number. The paid the previous time they were in MetLife Stadium was 68,900 paid and a real number of 74,300 in the building, which was announced at 80,676. Obviously they had to announce a larger number. This year's paid number was 63,000, and with it being a legit sellout, that says that the stage mut have been blocking off more seats as WrestleManias that sellout legit will have 5,000 to 7,000 comps, so the real figure would have been 68,000 to 70,000.
^ Observer Staff (April 2, 2020). "April 6, 2020 Observer Newsletter: Florida lockdown, WrestleMania preview". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Archived from the original on April 9, 2020. Retrieved April 2, 2020.