NEW ORLEANS – World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) will hold a press conference today to officially announce WrestleMania 34, The Showcase of the Immortals, will be returning to New Orleans in 2018.
The event will take place on Sunday, April 8, 2018, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
A capacity crowd of 75,167 WWE fans filled the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in 2014 for WrestleMania 30. That was the year The Undertaker’s WrestleMania Streak famously came to an end at the hands of Brock Lesnar, as well as the event where Daniel Bryan defeated Batista and Randy Orton in a triple threat main event to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, WWE reports.
According to NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, the 2014 event brought more than in $142 million to New Orleans.