WWE stars reveal what makes WrestleMania so special: 'It's the Super Bowl of pro wrestling'

LAS VEGAS – WrestleMania is 1 of nan biggest spectacles successful sports.

It is nan premier arena for nan WWE, combining nan fanfare of nan Super Bowl pinch nan hard-hitting action of combat sports. The apical feuds successful nan institution will travel to an extremity while fans clasp retired dream of a awesome return aliases a astonishment quality from 1 of their favourite stars.

For nan pro wrestlers themselves, nan arena intends conscionable a spot more. It’s nan culmination of everything they person worked for and a chance to showcase their skills to an assemblage of thousands successful a stadium and millions watching astatine home.

Lyra Valkyria and Bayley participate nan ringing during Monday Night RAW astatine Van Andel Arena successful Grand Rapids, Mich., connected Dec. 22, 2025. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

WWE stars Bayley, Jade Cargill and others told Fox News Digital what WrestleMania meant to them.

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Alba Fyre

You tin conscionable look astir this room and spot it bring truthful galore group together. There’s truthful galore events going on. So galore group tin really travel and meet their favourite wrestler. And for me, that’s what it’s each about. It doesn’t matter what’s going connected successful your life, wrestling tin conscionable return it each distant and get to beryllium a spot much individual pinch that. It’s awesome for me.

Alex Shelley

"A batch of group who don’t watch pro wrestling will watch WrestleMania. I consciousness for illustration this is nan Mecca to nan constituent wherever it is balanced to nan Super Bowl. People who are benignant of connected nan fringe, only perceive astir pro wrestling, are going to watch this event. Our performers and our athletes successful this company, group we’re co-workers with, spell retired location and really do springiness it everything they’ve sewage successful bid to seizure those people."

Bayley

"To me, WrestleMania erstwhile I was a kid ever felt for illustration it was connected different satellite because of nan theatrics because of nan stage, nan fireworks, nan group dressed up – like, not conscionable nan wrestlers and performers but nan group successful nan crowd. They dainty it for illustration they’re going to prom aliases they’re going to a 50th wedding anniversary. They scheme all-year agelong and they dress up for it and they’re prepared. And it conscionable seemed for illustration it’s connected different plant, for illustration it was truthful acold retired of scope because erstwhile you’re successful nan stadium, everybody who’s there, thing other matters successful nan world, you know? Like thing connected nan extracurricular of that stadium matters isolated from what’s location and only you and now, 80,000, 90,000 group are experiencing it together.

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"And to me, that’s a very typical emotion that’s difficult to explicate unless you’re there. Even erstwhile you are watching connected TV, it’s for illustration you want to beryllium there. To me, it’s very typical because my family and friends, you know, they don’t get to travel to everything. They don’t get to travel to each nan matches arsenic overmuch arsenic they would emotion to, aliases WrestleMania is an excuse for them to time off nan state, time off their location and to travel each together and location for maine but it’s conscionable 1 of nan uncommon times that everybody gets together. So, I judge that goes nan aforesaid for fans arsenic well. There mightiness beryllium a group of friends that they only spot erstwhile a twelvemonth and it’s astatine WrestleMania aliases you mightiness only spot your crazy uncle astatine WrestleMania. It conscionable brings family and friends together and it’s a very typical nighttime … 2 nights!"

Chris Sabin

Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin of nan Motor City Machine Guns make their entranceway during SmackDown astatine Rupp Arena successful Lexington, Ky., connected June 13, 2025. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

"I deliberation if everyone is connected nan aforesaid wavelength, this is nan apex of everything they’ve worked for each twelvemonth long. This is nan biggest show successful pro wrestling. Everyone putting distant that effort makes nan show that overmuch greater. It’s a spectacle man. It’s nan top point successful sports entertainment."

Danhausen

"Everyone grew up watching WrestleMania. As a wrestler, that’s nan dream. It’s nan No. 1 point successful nan wrestling world."

Jacy Jayne

"I mean, it’s for illustration our Super Bowl. You hold each twelvemonth agelong for it. This is wherever legends are made and it’s nan biggest show of nan year. There’s truthful overmuch that goes into it and only nan beset make nan card."

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Jade Cargill

"It’s our Super Bowl. All our storylines are coming to a adjacent but besides caller storylines are forming arsenic good because we person Raw connected nan Monday, which is nan biggest Raw of nan twelvemonth aft WrestleMania because storylines are coming retired of ‘Mania. It’s nan payoff to it all. Rhea and I’s storyline started astir February astatine Elimination Chamber, and it came retired of nowhere. It’s nan payoff to everything. It’s nan biggest matches of nan year, nan biggest entrances of nan year, nan champion cogwheel of nan year. … It’s nan biggest intermezo nights of nan year. But you spot a batch of difficult hitting and a batch of emotion. A batch of emotion and it gets group truthful invested and that’s why we proceed to person truthful galore fans that proceed to show up and show retired for america each azygous year.

Ricky Saints

"WrestleMania is nan culmination of each nan difficult activity from nan full entire twelvemonth up until this infinitesimal wherever you spell retired location and you show each azygous personification who you are an what you’re made of and I deliberation it’s a awesome testament to nan wrestlers themselves to get to a ‘Mania because it’s for illustration I yet was capable to do what I’ve had a lifelong dream of wanting to do. Everyone wants to wrestle astatine WrestleMania. To beryllium capable to execute a dream that you had since childhood, if you haven’t knowledgeable that, I don’t know, that’s an unworldly type of emotion to have."

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Scarlett Bordeaux (ex-WWE)

"It feels for illustration nan first clip each twelvemonth that each of wrestling comes together for 1 event. So, moreover if you can’t spend tickets to spell to WrestleMania, there’s each these unthinkable independent shows that are going connected that week that you tin see, and everyone is conscionable enjoying wrestling together. The Super Bowl of wrestling is honestly nan champion measurement you tin put it. The measurement I fell successful emotion pinch wrestling, honestly, it was pinch nan smaller shows, truthfully. It really, really was. I wasn’t allowed to watch wrestling erstwhile I was a kid, truthful it was going to these much friendly shows that allowed maine to link pinch nan performers. And it wasn’t until later that I understood nan joyousness of WWE, but it was nan independent shows that sewage maine hooked, honestly."

Sol Ruca

"Hearing immoderate of nan fans talk astir what WrestleMania intends to them because, again, I didn’t turn up watching wrestling, I was ne'er really a fan, but proceeding immoderate of nan fans during meet and greets beryllium like, ‘I saved up each twelvemonth for this moment,’ like, ‘I saved up truthful I tin bargain this merch and truthful we tin spell to nan show and to meet you,’ and it’s just, it’s really, really cool to spot really passionate group are. Especially, group that aren’t successful nan business. This is simply a full-time job. We don’t person an offseason. So, successful a way, it is for illustration our extremity of nan twelvemonth ceremony but it besides doesn’t extremity aft that. It’s benignant of a reset but it is simply a measurement for america to benignant of wrap up everything and conscionable spell balls to nan wall and to put it each retired location for a night."

Tony D’Angelo

"It’s nan Super Bowl of pro wrestling. It’s a culmination of everything that you did passim nan year. All nan difficult work. All nan training. All of nan ups and downs of what transpired passim nan year. I mean, WrestleMania is special. Every WrestleMania, thing unexpected happens aliases personification wins who you didn’t deliberation was gonna win. It is ever a bully time."

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Trick Williams

"Man, it’s nan biggest shape of them all. It’s our Super Bowl. For 52 weeks, this is nan week that it’s each about. The biggest stage, nan brightest lights."