{"id":679083,"date":"2026-05-19T06:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:21:09","slug":"mark-shapiro-concedes-wrestlemania-in-las-vegas-may-have-been-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679083\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Shapiro concedes WrestleMania in Las Vegas may have been a \u2018mistake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE ran WrestleMania in Las Vegas in both 2025 and 2026, and it didn\u2019t work. The poor ticket sales this year even became part of the on-screen storylines. And TKO President Mark Shapiro has conceded that running the same city in back-to-back years was a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/tko-president-and-media-titan-mark-shapiro-on-wwe-ufc-and-the-fight-at-the-white-house-123421788.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Sozzi of Yahoo! Finance<\/a> for an interview that was recorded before Mania but was released on Monday. At the time, he took responsibility for moving WrestleMania 42 from its originally scheduled site of New Orleans to Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it\u2019s a mistake I made,\u201d Shapiro said, \u201cbecause Vegas was so huge last year and such a winner for our fans and the product that I said to Nick Khan, \u2018We\u2019ve gotta go back to Vegas next year. We have to move New Orleans down the road and we got to come back to Vegas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Shapiro was not apologizing for the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely no regrets on going back [to Vegas],\u201d he said, \u201cbut the only reason you\u2019re hearing some of the, \u2018Hey it\u2019s not what it was last year,\u2019 it\u2019s because we\u2019re not benefiting from the first mover experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"preferred-source-link\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Google-CTA.jpg\" alt=\"Google Icon\" class=\"google-icon\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/blake-monroe-lyra-valkyria-express-interest-in-john-cena-classic\/?utm_source=navigation-previous&amp;utm_medium=internal\" class=\"gms-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE ran WrestleMania in Las Vegas in both 2025 and 2026, and it didn\u2019t work. The poor ticket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-679083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}