Listen up, jabronis! For the third time in 12 years, New Orleans and the Superdome will host WWE’s WrestleMania.
On Friday, WWE announced that it would bring the 42nd edition of its annual spectacular to the Crescent City in April 2026. WWE Hall-of-Famer Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson made the announcement during Friday night’s episode of WWE SmackDown in the Smoothie King Center.
Unlike the previous two WrestleManias that took place in the Superdome, which were single-night affairs, WrestleMania XLII will take place over two nights, Saturday, April 11 and Sunday, April 12. In addition, WWE will produce several other events that coincide with WrestleMania in the city, including the WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony, NXT Stand and Deliver, and the WWE World fan festival.
On top of that, various other wrestling promotions will bring their own events to New Orleans the week of WrestleMania, piggybacking off the tourism WWE’s signature event is expected to generate.
The Superdome hosted WrestleMania XXX in 2014 and WrestleMania XXXIV in 2018. According to WWE, between 60,000 and 65,000 fans attended the 2014 show. Four years later, attendance at WrestleMania XXXIV exceeded 78,000 fans. According to the Ehrhardt Group, who worked with WWE to promote WrestleMania XXXIV, the 2018 event generated an economic impact of $175 million dollars for the city of New Orleans. According to a study conducted by WWE after the event, 77 percent of fans who attended WrestleMania week festivities lived outside the New Orleans region and stayed an average of 3.9 nights, with those people spending a total of $22 million on hotel accommodations and in the city and $9.9 million in the city’s restaurants.
The Superdome will join New York’s Madison Square Garden (I, X, and XX) and Chicago’s Rosemont Horizon (II, XIII, and XXII) as the only venues to have hosted three WrestleManias.