WWE will bring the Elimination Chamber PLE to Rogers Centre in Toronto on Saturday, March 1, 2025. This marks the second consecutive year the event will be held in an international stadium.
This marks WWE’s first event in Rogers Centre since WrestleMania 18 in 2022, headlined by a match between Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Hulk Hogan. Rogers Centre also hosted Hulk Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania 6.
When the event first went on sale, a record was expected to be broken. WrestleTix reported that the show had sold 23,633 tickets for a setup of 29,670.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted the show has set the all-time gate record for Canada.
Meltzer said, “Elimination Chamber, which is the Toronto show, is the last that I saw the advance WrestleTix came out with a couple of days ago, over 23,000 at Rogers Center. It has already broken the all-time Canadian gate record, which was set by the Hogan and Rock match at the 2002 WrestleMania. Obviously, with inflation and all, they were going to break that record. Where they’re going to end up is in March, so it’s a little over two months to go. I mean, they’re probably going to end up well north of 30. I don’t think that they’re going to come close to a sellout. But I don’t know when they booked it. I don’t think they were expecting a sellout. I think that 30 would be considered, you know, I mean, when they do these stadium shows essentially 25,000 or more paid, they would consider a success, and they will easily break that. You know, it becomes better to do 25,000 at the stadium than to sell out at 13 or 14, you know, at the, you know, Scotiabank [Arena].”
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