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

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

It is the premier lawsuit for the WWE, combining the fanfare of the Super Bowl with the hard-hitting enactment of combat sports. The apical feuds successful the institution volition travel to an extremity portion fans clasp retired anticipation of a large instrumentality oregon a astonishment quality from 1 of their favourite stars.

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

Lyra Valkyria and Bayley participate the 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 country and spot it bring truthful galore radical together. There’s truthful galore events going on. So galore radical tin really travel and conscionable their favourite wrestler. And for me, that’s what it’s each about. It doesn’t substance what’s going connected successful your life, wrestling tin conscionable instrumentality it each distant and get to beryllium a spot much idiosyncratic with that. It’s large for me.

Alex Shelley

"A batch of radical who don’t ticker pro wrestling volition ticker WrestleMania. I consciousness similar this is the Mecca to the constituent wherever it is equivalent to the Super Bowl. People who are benignant of connected the fringe, lone perceive astir pro wrestling, are going to ticker this event. Our performers and our athletes successful this company, radical we’re co-workers with, spell retired determination and truly bash springiness it everything they’ve got successful bid to seizure those people."

Bayley

"To me, WrestleMania erstwhile I was a kid ever felt similar it was connected different satellite due to the fact that of the theatrics due to the fact that of the stage, the fireworks, the radical dressed up – like, not conscionable the wrestlers and performers but the radical successful the crowd. They dainty it similar they’re going to prom oregon they’re going to a 50th wedding anniversary. They program all-year agelong and they formal up for it and they’re prepared. And it conscionable seemed similar it’s connected different plant, similar it was truthful acold retired of scope due to the fact that erstwhile you’re successful the stadium, everybody who’s there, thing other matters successful the world, you know? Like thing connected the extracurricular of that stadium matters but what’s determination and lone you and now, 80,000, 90,000 radical are experiencing it together.

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"And to me, that’s a precise peculiar feeling that’s hard to explicate unless you’re there. Even erstwhile you are watching connected TV, it’s similar you privation to beryllium there. To me, it’s precise peculiar due to the fact that my household and friends, you know, they don’t get to travel to everything. They don’t get to travel to each the matches arsenic overmuch arsenic they would emotion to, oregon WrestleMania is an excuse for them to permission the state, permission their location and to travel each unneurotic and determination for maine but it’s conscionable 1 of the uncommon times that everybody gets together. So, I judge that goes the aforesaid for fans arsenic well. There mightiness beryllium a radical of friends that they lone spot erstwhile a twelvemonth and it’s astatine WrestleMania oregon you mightiness lone spot your brainsick uncle astatine WrestleMania. It conscionable brings household and friends unneurotic and it’s a precise peculiar nighttime … 2 nights!"

Chris Sabin

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

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

Danhausen

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

Jacy Jayne

"I mean, it’s similar our Super Bowl. You hold each twelvemonth agelong for it. This is wherever legends are made and it’s the biggest amusement of the year. There’s truthful overmuch that goes into it and lone the beset marque the 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 due to the fact that we person Raw connected the Monday, which is the biggest Raw of the twelvemonth aft WrestleMania due to the fact that storylines are coming retired of ‘Mania. It’s the payoff to it all. Rhea and I’s storyline started astir February astatine Elimination Chamber, and it came retired of nowhere. It’s the payoff to everything. It’s the biggest matches of the year, the biggest entrances of the year, the champion cogwheel of the year. … It’s the biggest amusement nights of the year. But you spot a batch of hard hitting and a batch of emotion. A batch of emotion and it gets radical truthful invested and that’s wherefore we proceed to person truthful galore fans that proceed to amusement up and amusement retired for america each azygous year.

Ricky Saints

"WrestleMania is the culmination of each the hard enactment from the full full twelvemonth up until this infinitesimal wherever you spell retired determination and you amusement each azygous idiosyncratic who you are an what you’re made of and I deliberation it’s a large testament to the wrestlers themselves to get to a ‘Mania due to the fact that it’s similar I yet was capable to bash what I’ve had a lifelong imagination of wanting to do. Everyone wants to wrestle astatine WrestleMania. To beryllium capable to execute a imagination that you had since childhood, if you haven’t experienced that, I don’t know, that’s an unworldly benignant of feeling to have."

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Scarlett Bordeaux (ex-WWE)

"It feels similar the archetypal clip each twelvemonth that each of wrestling comes unneurotic for 1 event. So, adjacent if you can’t spend tickets to spell to WrestleMania, there’s each these unthinkable autarkic 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 the champion mode you tin enactment it. The mode I fell successful emotion with wrestling, honestly, it was with the smaller shows, truthfully. It really, truly was. I wasn’t allowed to ticker wrestling erstwhile I was a kid, truthful it was going to these much intimate shows that allowed maine to link with the performers. And it wasn’t until aboriginal that I understood the joyousness of WWE, but it was the autarkic shows that got maine hooked, honestly."

Sol Ruca

"Hearing immoderate of the fans speech astir what WrestleMania means to them because, again, I didn’t turn up watching wrestling, I was ne'er truly a fan, but proceeding immoderate of the fans during conscionable 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 the amusement and to conscionable you,’ and it’s just, it’s really, truly chill to spot however passionate radical are. Especially, radical that aren’t successful the business. This is simply a full-time job. We don’t person an offseason. So, successful a way, it is similar our extremity of the twelvemonth solemnisation but it besides doesn’t halt aft that. It’s benignant of a reset but it is simply a mode for america to benignant of wrapper up everything and conscionable spell balls to the partition and to enactment it each retired determination for a night."

Tony D’Angelo

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

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Trick Williams

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