Sean Mooney on Why WrestleMania 7 Moved from the LA Coliseum: The Real Reason
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | So it's the event, you know, you're thinking about when this was in the company's history. |
| 0:09.6 | And, you know, business wasn't great. |
| 0:13.0 | And they, as we know, originally they wanted to sell out the LA Coliseum. |
| 0:17.8 | Well, you know, the LA Coliseum, what's it hold, 110,000 something at the time. |
| 0:25.2 | And it's an awful venue for what we want to do. If you've ever been in there, Steve, it's a |
| 0:31.8 | it is a Coliseum. I've only walked by it. I've never actually been inside. It was crazy |
| 0:36.5 | It is gigantic. It is gigantic. I don't know what the original intent for the design of that thing, but it really wasn't designed for any sport. I mean, unless maybe it was gladiators. |
| 0:46.4 | That's what it looks like. Because you're just so far away and it's gigantic. |
| 0:53.5 | And even back then, I thought when they first announced that that's what they wanted to do, |
| 0:59.0 | I was like, I thought you're going to fill this. |
| 1:02.0 | And it was, you know, we weren't really into that age of where we had big, you know, |
| 1:07.0 | they had people at Jumbotrons, but it wasn't anything like what they evolved into where you had all of the, you know, the monitors everywhere. |
| 1:15.4 | So you, you know, the guys would have looked like this big, you know, when you see them from where they, even the good seats were going to be far away. |
| 1:25.2 | And this was also before they were doing the, you know, the giant |
| 1:29.1 | stages that we see. It was way, way before that. And so what are you going to have in? Imagine this, |
| 1:38.3 | like your center, your center stage is going to be a ring in this giant giganticiseum and not very well built for something like that. |
| 1:50.0 | So they, and they and there's documentation that people say, you know, the ticket sales were just awful. |
| 2:00.0 | I think, you you know within the first |
| 2:01.9 | two weeks they'd only sold i think they said 15 16 000 and people say it was closer to 10 |
| 2:09.1 | so you know it was mass panic of my god you know i'm basel daedo who i'm sure people some people |
| 2:17.4 | heard of them especially we've |
| 2:18.8 | talked about him on podcast was kind of the marketing guy behind all this and mapping out ticket |
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