Where In The World Is Wrestlemania?

As the title of this article suggests, today we are going to play everyone’s favorite game, Where In The World Is Wrestlemania? Unfortunately, this probably won’t be a very long game, nor will it contain any exciting twists or turns, because Wrestlemania seems to end up in the same place every year. You see, this game started when today I was looking at some of the daily wrestling rumors when I came upon one that intrigued me. I stumbled across a report that said that New Japan was planning on running a major show in New Orleans during Wrestlemania. What stuck out to me wasn’t as much the fact that New Japan was already planning more tour dates in America, It was the fact that New Orleans was getting another year of exceptional wrestling action. Since the 2010’s began, this will be the second Wrestlemania in New Orleans and also the second in the last five years. Increasingly, WWE seems to be bringing the Super Bowl of Sports Entertainment to the same places each and every year. Wrestlemania has also come from Florida twice since 2010 and three times since 2007 when Wrestlemania’s began to be put in stadiums capable of holding 70,000 plus. In that same time, Texas has gotten two Wrestlemania’s as well. That means that in the past 12 years, counting this coming Wrestlemania, the show will have come from the same three states over half the time. Where’s the love for the midwest? Why can’t some states in the east get some big wrestling shows besides New York? Hell, what about Canada for once? Why is it that Wrestlemania is stuck in the same three state rut for so long?

After desperately thinking through possible explanations for why Wrestlemania is caught in the same borders each year, I haven’t come up with a single plausible reason for Wrestlemania’s stagnation. There are plenty of big stadiums in the midwest capable of holding Wrestlemania. US Bank Stadium, the Minnesota Vikings new home, is capable of holding the requisite 70,000 attendees and so is Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. If you look at Canada, there are numerous stadiums capable of holding over 50,000 which is still a pretty sizable amount of people if you don’t have to take up half the joint with a giant roller coaster. The best part is, all of these places are actual stadiums which means inclement weather can’t possibly be the reason why WWE hasn’t brought it’s biggest show to anywhere unique in years. With all that in mind, I really do wonder what it’s going to take to get WWE to finally up and move Wrestlemania out of its rut. If anyone has any ideas for why Wrestlemania is stuck in the mud still, please leave me a comment below and please WWE, take notice. I really want to see a Wrestlemania in my lifetime that I don’t have to jump on a plane to go to.