WrestleMania Tickets Selling For More Than $500 In Orlando
POSTED: Friday, March 28, 2008
UPDATED: 12:28 pm EDT March 28,
2008
 |
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Tickets for Sunday's WrestleMania event in Orlando are now selling for more than $500, making it the highest grossing event in the history of the Citrus Bowl, Local 6 has learned.
IMAGES: WrestleMania Fans, Wrestlers
IMAGES: Cow Pasture Logo
About 70,000 people are expected to attend World Wrestling Entertainment's biggest event of the year, WrestleMania 24, and bring in at least $25 million into the local economy.Fans have traveled from as far as Scotland to see the event."(I've been) watching wrestling for about 10 years and I've never been to a live event before," Scottish fan Michael McCann said. "I finally got an opportunity to come out here, so I took it."WWE announcer "Mean" Gene Okerlund was in Orlando Thursday night for the pre-event festivities."(Fans) come not only from the United States, our domestic market, but they come from throughout the world," Okerlund said.Downtown businesses said they are already seeing a spike in customers."You can look at Wall Street and see a lot of people out," bar owner Will Tharpe said. "I'm sure the weekend will be just the same.""This is definitely a great family event," Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said. "A lot of people grew up watching wrestling from Florida and we are pretty excited about having this event."The event begins at 6:30 p.m. Sunday.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
IMAGES: WrestleMania Fans, Wrestlers IMAGES: Cow Pasture Logo About 70,000 people are expected to attend World Wrestling Entertainment's biggest event of the year, WrestleMania 24, and bring in at least $25 million into the local economy.Fans have traveled from as far as Scotland to see the event."(I've been) watching wrestling for about 10 years and I've never been to a live event before," Scottish fan Michael McCann said. "I finally got an opportunity to come out here, so I took it."WWE announcer "Mean" Gene Okerlund was in Orlando Thursday night for the pre-event festivities."(Fans) come not only from the United States, our domestic market, but they come from throughout the world," Okerlund said.Downtown businesses said they are already seeing a spike in customers."You can look at Wall Street and see a lot of people out," bar owner Will Tharpe said. "I'm sure the weekend will be just the same.""This is definitely a great family event," Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said. "A lot of people grew up watching wrestling from Florida and we are pretty excited about having this event."The event begins at 6:30 p.m. Sunday.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
Previous Stories:
Copyright 2008 by Internet Broadcasting Systems and Local6.com.
All rights reserved. This material may
not be published, broadcast, rewritten
or redistributed.
Ida grows into a hurricane for a second time, and the system could be headed for Florida.
Jason Rodriguez is formally charged with first-degree murder and ordered to be held on no bond on charges he shot five people, killing one in a downtown office building on Friday.
| Arrest | Suspect
Images and hundreds of pages of documents related to the Casey Anthony case are released by the state attorney's office.
A final police report into the murder-suicide that left a Heathrow family of four dead details the couple's former swinging lifestyle and a gambling habit.
Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph, as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S. Gulf Coast next week.
Local 6 News, led by investigative reporter Mike Holfeld, will host an interactive experience on Monday at 6:30 p.m. with viewers, including a phone bank and online chat with homeowners association experts.
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
Eric Flack goes inside a controversial swingers club in suburban Cincinnati.
A South Carolina man caught on video having sex with a horse has been sentenced to three years in prison for abusing the animal.
Police release the name of the victim killed in a shooting at an Orlando high-rise and file first-degree murder charges against the suspected shooter. 
Take a quick look at the flicks headed to your multiplex. Check out the trailer, too.
Hundreds of photos in the Casey Anthony case are released.
Email Alerts
RSS News Feeds
Mobile
Live Streams
Slideshows
Video
Search
