What If: Wrestlemania VII at the Los Angeles Forum?

It's not that much bigger, is it?

Uh it wouldn't make that much of a difference.

Well...whenever WWE came to town during the '80s and '90s, their venue was always the Sports Arena. WCW's L.A. shows were at the Forum, and I remember a "Saturday Nitro" show being webcast live from there in 1997, where Chris Jericho defeated Syxx for the WCW Cruiserweight title.

The Forum was also where I saw Britney Spears perform in 2000 during her first world tour, but that's another story.

It would have had no impact, the card would have been the same, the results would have been the same.

It would have been more memorably though, since the LA Memorial would have held about 100,000 people for WrestleMania!

Security concerns? You bought into that bullshit?

Vince just couldnt get 100,000 people into the arena.

Well, the story was that Wrestlemania VII was going to be an outdoor show at the Memorial Coliseum with the hopes of attracting 100,000 fans (and thus shattering the record 93,173 that filled the Pontiac Silverdome for Wrestlemania III...an indoor attendance record which stood almost for 23 years (last year's NBA All-Star Game at Dallas' Cowboys Stadium broke it with 108,713))

But at least they sold enough tickets to sell out the Sports Arena, and for good reason: It rained that night in Los Angeles!!!

johnnya2k10 said:

Well, the story was that Wrestlemania VII was going to be an outdoor show at the Memorial Coliseum with the hopes of attracting 100,000 fans (and thus shattering the record 93,173 that filled the Pontiac Silverdome for Wrestlemania III...an indoor attendance record which stood almost for 23 years (last year's NBA All-Star Game at Dallas' Cowboys Stadium broke it with 108,713))

But at least they sold enough tickets to sell out the Sports Arena, and for good reason: It rained that night in Los Angeles!!!

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There weren't 93,173 fans at WM3 either, actually about 78,000.

There wasn't any security concerns. McMahon just realized that for once a gamble had failed and he wouldnt be able to fill the larger arena so swapped out for a smaller one.

Forum isn't that much bigger than the Sports arena so no real difference.

Maybe if they would have gone with Warrior/Hogan II they would have had a better shot at selling out the Coliseum but Hogan/Slaughter never had a shot. Even if they did sell out the Coliseum it wouldn't break the Silverdome's record since, ya know, you can't break an indoor record in an outdoor venue. Regardless , it worked out fine in the end due to rain occurring on the day of WM 7

fp_atl said:

There weren't 93,173 fans at WM3 either, actually about 78,000.

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I don't care if it was 93,173 or 78,000 (which was the actual number); the '10 All-Star Game already squashed that indoor record.

But Wrestlemania VII had a pre-taped Instant Replay debate featuring NFL analyst Paul Maguire and the late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, which touched on the Ultimate Warrior/Sgt. Slaughter match at the Royal Rumble in which Slaughter won the WWE title thanks to the Macho Man's interference. Had the referee turned around, he would've rang the bell, Warrior would win by DQ (thus retaining the belt), and THEN we would've had the re-match between Hogan and Warrior! Of course, with the Gulf War still brewing, we got Hogan/Slaughter instead.

By the way...78,000 at Wrestlemania III still remains the real attendance record for a Wrestlemania, though Wrestlemania 23 20 years later when it returned to Detroit came awfully close with 74,687 (or 80,103 in WWE's numbers) packing Ford Field.

I still find that hard to believe that they couldn't reach that number considering what they got at wrestlemania 3.