Talk:WrestleMania III

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[edit] Attendance

Ok, it's time for the silly childish editing war on this page to end. Clearly the actual attendance for this show is a matter of debate, and is, in my opinion at least, worthy of more mention then simple "although this number is sometimes disputed". The attendance of this show isn't "sometimes" disputed, it IS disputed, end of story. The two sides of the argument are those who side with the WWE's figure of 93,173, and those who side with Wrestling Journalist Dave Meltzer and the late Zane Bresloff, who was the actual promoter of the event. According to a story Meltzer has related numerous times, while he was researching information for an article he was writing on the history of the WWF for his Wrestling Observer Newsletter, he was allowed access to the WWF's official records, he did in fact discover that the financial figures for Wrestlemania 3 attributed the attendance as closer to 75,000, almost 20,000 less then the WWF's number. This fact was later corroborated by Bresloff, the promoter, who confirmed that 75,000 was the legitimate figure, and not the WWF's Kayfabe 93,173 number. When Meltzer questioned Vince Mcmahon on this, his reply was something along the lines of "We're in the entertainment business, and we have the creative license to do whatever we want, and the idea of a record attendance of 93,173 is much more exciting then 75,000".

Now can we please come to a consensus on this subject matter so we can at least include mention of this significant debate?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spman (talk • contribs).

Yes, the figure is disputed, it was not 93,000, --81.129.79.177 15:15, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

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