10 Best Crowds In WWE WrestleMania History, Ranked

It’s Christmas, the Super Bowl, and all of the good feelings that wrestling fans have about the product all rolled up into one. WrestleMania season is that time of year where even the most cynical of fans (the kind of fan who hasn’t liked anything since The Attitude Era but can’t bring themselves to just stop watching and admit it’s not for him anymore) are on cloud nine with the promise of at least one top-to-bottom awesome show.

WrestleMania transcends everything about wrestling when it’s booked perfectly. The crowds are positively euphoric. Just about every single WrestleMania crowd is primed and ready for major events to go down, and it’s an event every wrestling fan needs to take part in at least once in their lives. Here are the 10 Best Crowds In WWE WrestleMania History, Ranked.

10 WrestleMania 33

It started with the Phenomenal One and ended with the supposed end of the Phenom. In between featured the throwdown between former best friends, KO and Jericho; the brawl fans expected 13 years ago between Brock and Goldberg, and the surprise epic return of the Hardy Boys. Not to mention, WrestleMania 33 featured the craziest stage and ramp design of any wrestling event ever and added even more grandeur to the greatest spectacle in wrestling.

9 WrestleMania XXIX

Whenever the WWE comes home to the New York area, you better believe they pull out all of the stops. WrestleMania XXIX was the Northeast’s first outdoor ‘Mania, and it didn’t disappoint. Besides the Rock-Cena rematch from the prior year’s event, the last ‘Mania before ‘dirty thirty’ had the WrestleMania debut of the Shield and the continued rise of the Daniel Bryan (Team Hell No against Ziggler and Big E).

Behind III and 32, it’s actually the third biggest ‘Mania crowd in history, definitely a raucous night that also saw the long-awaited clash between CM Punk and the Undertaker.

8 WrestleMania X8

For a little under ten years, the WWE Universe was without Hulkamania. The nWo was one thing, but the WWE’s hero was gone, and WCW didn’t do much with the Hulkster. By the time Hollywood Hogan came to Skydome to take on the Rock, there was no stopping the crowd, they wanted the Immortal One to truly return.

The event had some decent matches like the awesome Undertaker/Ric Flair match and the main event between defending champion Y2J against Triple H, but the night belonged to the crowd going all-in on booing babyface Rock and cheering mega heel Hogan, demanding a return to form of the Red And Yellow Icon.

7 WrestleMania 13

As evidenced by several AEW events and this past Survivor Series, Chicago is a big wrestling town. A little over 18,000 descended on the Rosemont Horizon to bear witness to WrestleMania 13. The eight-match card was the beginnings of Attitude with the Deadman claiming the WWE title from Psycho Sid.

Every wrestling fan worth their weight in “this is awesome” chants knows what the big moment of the night was: the epic Submission Match brawl between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Bret The Hitman Hart. The match featured what is still considered the best double–turn in history, as beloved Bret was now a hated heel and the Texas Rattlesnake had curried plenty of favor with the crowd.

6 WrestleMania XXV

Ricky Steamboat showed he still had it versus Chris Jericho at a WrestleMania! Do you really need to know anything else about “The 25^th Anniversary Of WrestleMania?” All kidding and excitement about that moment aside, WrestleMania XXV had the most anticipated match in… probably ever taking place.

The build-up for this match began way back at the first Hell In The Cell, Badd Blood 1997—the match between Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker should be required viewing for anyone ever, wrestling fan or not; pure emotion from beginning to end.

5 WrestleMania III

To not include the now mythic WrestleMania III on this list would be wrong. Besides Hulk-André and the show-stealing Savage-Steamboat matches, WrestleMania III encompasses a lot of what was silly and good about late eighties wrestling during the WWE expansion. Hearing over 93,000 fans scream at the top of their lungs for nearly three hours is still a sound that WWE has not been able to replicate.

4 WrestleMania XXIV

The WWE came to Citrus Park in Orlando and turned it into the spectacle that we all saw. According to Chris Jericho in one of his podcasts, the stadium doesn’t look like that at all when the WWE isn’t commandeering the arena. The event was pumped up by Floyd Mayweather against the Big Show, but one of the most emotional moments in wrestling history happened on this nigh. With “a tear in his eye,” the Nature Boy walked that aisle for the last time in his retirement match against Shawn Michaels.

3 WrestleMania XXX

If NOLA wasn’t ready for WrestleMania XXX when the show started, they absolutely were by the time Hulk said how happy he was to be back at the Silverdome! After the epic meeting of Hogan, Rock, and Austin WrestleMania XXX, the WWE Universe was locked and loaded to shatter the world record of Yes chants in a three-hour time span as fans waited with bated breath to see the American Dragon, Daniel Bryan breathe fire at the mountaintop.

2 WrestleMania 35

Only at WrestleMania does just about everything the fans want to see happen actually happen. The fans wanted to see Seth Rollins take down the Beast, check. KofiMania running wild, check.

The Man coming around to win the world title, check, check, and check. WrestleMania 35 was a whopping five hours and ended the next morning, but, when you’re being given good to great booking, your audience will seldom cool down.

1 WrestleMania X7

In March of 2001, the biggest WrestleMania to date was set to take place. A week before, it got even bigger as the WWE purchased WCW, making this WrestleMania truly feel like the epic climax of an era. By the time, Stone Cold stomped to the ring to take back the WWE title, the hometown crowd couldn’t care less that he had partnered up with Vince and turned heel to beat the Rock. They were just near-riotous to see Texas Rattlesnake back on top.

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