Wrestlemania Buyrate History

[TMC]

http://realwrestlecrap.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wrestling&action=display&thread=233034

The following are the buyrates for the past WrestleMania PPVs (going
back to 1987). A 1.0 buyrates translates to roughly 400,000 buys.

WrestleMania III 1987
Main Event: Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant
10.2 buyrate (4,080,000 buys)

WrestleMania IV 1988
Main Event: Randy Savage vs. Ted DiBiase
6.5 buyrate (2,600,000 buys)

WrestleMania V (1989)
Main Event: Hulk Hogan vs. Randy Savage
5.9 buyrate (2,360,000 buys)

WrestleMania VI (1990)
Main Event: Hulk Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior
3.8 buyrate (1,520,000 buys)

WrestleMania VII (1991)
Main Event: Hulk Hogan vs. Sgt. Slaughter
2.8 buyrate (1,120,000 buys)

WrestleMania VIII (1992)
Main Event: Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair | Hulk Hogan vs. Sycho Sid
2.3 buyrate (920,000 buys)

WrestleMania IX (1993)
Main Event: Bret Hart vs. Yokozuna
2.0 buyrate (800,000 buys)

WrestleMania X (1994)
Main Event: Bret Hart vs. Yokozuna
1.68 buyrate (672,000 buys)

WrestleMania XI (1995)
Main Event: Shawn Michaels vs. Diesel | Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Lawrence
Taylor
1.3 buyrate (520,000 buys)

WrestleMania XII (1996)
Main Event: Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels
1.2 buyrate (480,000 buys)

WrestleMania XIII (1997)
Main Event: Sycho Sid vs. The Undertaker | Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin
0.77 buyrate (308,000 buys)

WrestleMania XIV (1998)
Main Event: Shawn Michaels vs. Steve Austin
2.3 buyrate (920,000 buys)

WrestleMania XV (1999)
Main Event: Steve Austin vs. The Rock
2.32 buyrate (928,000 buys)

WrestleMania XVI (2000)
Main Event: The Rock vs. Triple H vs. The Big Show vs. Mick Foley
2.35 buyrate (940,000 buys)

WrestleMania XVII (2001)
Main Event: Steve Austin vs. The Rock
2.18 buyrate (872,000 buys)

WrestleMania XVIII (2002)
Main Event: The Rock vs. Hulk Hogan
1.60 buyrate (640,000 buys)

WrestleMania XIX (2003)
Main Event: Kurt Angle vs. Brock Lesnar | Hulk Hogan vs. Vince McMahon
| The Rock vs. Steve Austin
1.40 buyrate (560,000 buys)

[rwa2play, The Northern Lariat]

Y'know, for how awesome that era bet. 1997 and 2000 was, I'm shocked
that none of those WMs didn't clear at least 1.5 million buys. I'm
guessing it's either the smarts that weren't really into it like they
were 10 years earlier, watching it through teh interwebs, they had
something else to do/wouldn't pay the going rate or all of the above.

--
rwa2play, The Northern Lariat
Michaels/Austin ONLY did a 2.3 buyrate...REALLY?!

[That Don Guy]

Somebody who may or may not have been TMC - it's so hard to tell in
RSPW - wrote:

>http://realwrestlecrap.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wrestling&action=display&thread=233034
>
>The following are the buyrates for the past WrestleMania PPVs (going
>back to 1987). A 1.0 buyrates translates to roughly 400,000 buys.
>
>WrestleMania III 1987
>Main Event: Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant
>10.2 buyrate (4,080,000 buys)

Was WM3 on PPV TV, or do those buys include movie theater buys, in
which case you have to take into account the fact that a TV "buy"
counts households while a theater buy counts each person separately?

-- Don
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[David E. Powell]

On Oct 11, 1:11 am, "rwa2play, The Northern Lariat"
<rwa2p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> TMC wrote:
> >http://realwrestlecrap.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wrestling&action...

It's a heck of a way to track the popularity of wrestling, too.
Figuring in the PPVs that got added every year as time went on, of
course.

The trend from 1987 to 1992 basically reflects my memories perfectly
of that time. One can also see it tracking up a bit again in the late
1990s, again figuring in the additional PPVs that were out every
year.

Man, wrestling was uber hot in the 80s though....

[napoleon...@gmail.com]

This list is totally retarded because the size of the PPV universe has varied substantially over time. A 1.0 buyrate does not correspond to 400,000 buys except for some particular moment in time.

The real Wrestlemania numbers are in the following link: http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?showtopic=16502&st=0&start=0

Even intuitively, the list is retarded anyway. If Hogan and Andre really got around 4 million buys, that would imply that it did double the buys of Tyson/Holyfield, which is ridiculous. In the PPV market, pro-wrestling has never been on the level of boxing.