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WrestleMania XXIV
Promotion
World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand(s)Raw
SmackDown
ECW
DateMarch 30, 2008
CityOrlando, Florida
VenueFlorida Citrus Bowl
Attendance74,635[1]
Buy rate1,041,000[2]
Tagline(s)"The Biggest WrestleMania Under the Sun"[3]
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WrestleMania XXIV was the 24th annual

event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brand divisions. The event took place on March 30, 2008, at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida and was the first WrestleMania to be held in the state of Florida. It was also the second WrestleMania to be held outdoors (the first was WrestleMania IX in April 1993). American socialite Kim Kardashian
served as the hostess of the event.

Nine professional wrestling matches were scheduled for the event, which featured a

Big Show. The other featured undercard matches saw CM Punk win the inter-promotional Money in the Bank ladder match and a retirement match in which Shawn Michaels defeated Ric Flair
, leading to Flair's departure from the WWE and a period of retirement from active wrestling.

Tickets for the event commenced sale to the public on November 3, 2007.

grossing pay-per-view in WWE history. It also set a gate record for the Citrus Bowl, grossing US$5.85 million in ticket sales. According to a study by Enigma Research Corporation of Toronto, the Citrus Bowl's record-breaking attendance brought an estimated $51.5 million – surpassing the projected $25 million – into the local economy and generated $1.8 million in local tax revenue.[6] The Central Florida Sports Commission reported that the event created jobs and brought approximately 60,000 visitors to the city. Over one million people ordered the event on pay-per-view, grossing $23.8 million in revenue. It was also the first WrestleMania PPV broadcast in high definition.[7]

Production

Background

A steel rig with a tarpaulin was placed over the ring at WrestleMania XXIV

World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) flagship pay-per-view (PPV) event, having first been held in 1985. It has become the longest-running professional wrestling event in history and is held annually between mid-March to mid-April.[8] It was the first of WWE's original four pay-per-views, which includes Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, referred to as the "Big Four".[9] WrestleMania XXIV featured wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands.[10][11]

On March 21, 2007, a press conference was held at City Hall in

Florida Citrus Bowl on March 30, 2008, which would be the first WrestleMania held in Florida.[12][13] According to an interview with The Daytona Beach News-Journal at the press conference, WWE chairman Vince McMahon mentioned Orlando being one of three front-runners to host the event, the other two being Las Vegas and Paris. McMahon explained that Orlando was chosen as geographically, a WrestleMania was never held in the southeast before.[13]

As the second WrestleMania to be held entirely outdoors (after

generators were used to power up the event.[16]

The set design for the entrance stage was at the north end of the stadium and consisted of another steel structure with various video screens hanging from it.[16][18] The steel beams for the structure were custom built in Belgium and shipped over to Orlando.[16] According to WWE Magazine, the amount of pyrotechnics used would be ten times that of the amount used on Raw.[15] Without the restriction of a roof, the pyrotechnics for the show shot as high as 2,000 feet (610 m) as compared to WrestleMania 23's height of 150 feet (46 m).[19] The fireworks were set off from boats on one of the lakes nearby the stadium. WWE has been said to have spent an estimated $300,000 on the fireworks alone.[20]

An attendance record setting 74,635 fans at the Citrus Bowl for WrestleMania XXIV

With the Citrus Bowl's locker rooms on the south side and the entrance set on the north side, a tented 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) mini-city outside the north end served as the show's backstage area and included air conditioning, trailers, VIP areas, showers and restrooms.[16] As a consequence, the road next to the north end zone, W. Church Street, was closed down until a day after the event.[21] Numerous other roads were also closed to allow trucks and forklifts to move in mega equipment for the event.[22] The ring itself was built on the 50-yard line of the Citrus Bowl to give the best view for fans.[15] Heavy-duty plastic flooring had been put over the field, to protect the turf, provide seating, and serve as the steel structures' foundation.[16]

Development on the set design began in the middle of 2007.

Blu-ray Disc format by WWE Home Video.[24][25] WrestleMania also led to an increase in sales for musical artists related to the event, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album Stadium Arcadium, John Legend's album Live from Philadelphia, Rev Theory's single "Light It Up", and Fuel's single "Leave the Memories Alone", which was used as part of a tribute to Ric Flair.[26]

Storylines

WrestleMania XXIV featured nine

storyline divisions in which WWE assigned its employees to different programs.[27]

Randy Orton defended his WWE Championship.

The predominant

slapping the referee, thus retaining the WWE Championship.[28] Later, Triple H also became a top contender to the WWE Championship by defeating five other men in an Elimination Chamber match.[29] The next night on Raw, Cena argued that he deserved another WWE Championship match. Raw general manager William Regal then announced that Cena would face Orton later in the night, where if Cena won, he would be added to the WrestleMania match between Triple H and Orton, making it a triple threat match. If Orton won, the main event would remain as Orton versus Triple H in a singles match. However, Cena won the match and was added to the bout at WrestleMania. After the match, Triple H, who was the special guest referee, executed a Pedigree on both Cena and Orton.[30]

The predominant rivalry on the SmackDown brand was between

Chavo Guerrero, Edge, Hawkins and Ryder) defeated Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels in a steel cage match. During the match, Undertaker interfered and attacked La Familia. However, Edge escaped the cage to win the match for his team.[35] Two weeks later on SmackDown, Edge, along with Vickie Guerrero, Hawkins and Ryder, held a mock burial entitled "Burial of The Undertaker's WrestleMania Undefeated Streak", to celebrate Edge's early victory over The Undertaker. During the "burial", however, The Undertaker emerged from a casket, which was inside the ring, and attacked Edge, Hawkins, and Ryder, knocking Hawkins and Ryder outside the ring and chokeslamming Edge through the casket.[36]

Big Show in a No Disqualification match

At No Way Out, Big Show made a return to the company after taking time off for injuries beginning in December 2006.

WBC Welterweight Champion Floyd "Money" Mayweather, who was in attendance and a close friend of Mysterio's, came to his aid and confronted Big Show. After Big Show dropped to his knees, Mayweather attacked him with a combination of punches, which caused Big Show to bleed from the nose and mouth.[38] The following night on Raw, Big Show challenged Mayweather to a wrestling match, which Mayweather accepted.[39]
As part of the storyline, Big Show arranged an exhibition match with fighter Brandon Hill, who was similar in size and stature to Mayweather. Unimpressed with Big Show's display of dominance over Hill, Mayweather told Big Show that "at WrestleMania, I'm going to break your jaw". At their weigh-in for their WrestleMania match, Big Show threw Mayweather into a crowd of wrestlers to emphasise the disparity in size.

Ric Flair before his last WWE match at WrestleMania XXIV

On the February 25 episode of Raw, 2008 WWE Hall of Fame Inductee Ric Flair challenged Shawn Michaels to a match at WrestleMania.[40] Michaels accepted after some reluctance, knowing that due to a previous announcement from WWE chairman Mr. McMahon the next match Flair lost would result in his forced retirement.[40][41] Flair said that "it would be an honor for [him] to retire at the hands of Shawn Michaels."[40]

On February 18, WWE announced via its website that the fourth annual

legitimate suspension by WWE for a drug violation of the company's Wellness Policy. WWE decided not to add another superstar in his place, making that year's Money in the Bank ladder match the first year to have seven participants.[42]

Event

Other on-screen personnel[43]
Role: Name:
English commentators Jim Ross (Raw)
Jerry Lawler (Raw)
Michael Cole (SmackDown)
Jonathan Coachman (SmackDown)
Joey Styles (ECW)
Tazz
(ECW)
Spanish commentators Carlos Cabrera
Hugo Savinovich
Interviewer
 Mike Adamle
Todd Grisham
Hostess Kim Kardashian
Master of Ceremonies Snoop Dogg
Ring announcers Tony Chimel (ECW)
Armando Estrada (ECW Championship)
Howard Finkel (WWE Hall of Fame)
Lilian Garcia (Raw)
Theodore Long (Raw vs. SmackDown)
William Regal (Raw vs. SmackDown)
Justin Roberts (SmackDown/Money in the Bank match)
Referee Scott Armstrong (ECW)
Mike Posey (ECW)
John Cone (Raw)
Mike Chioda (Raw)
Jack Doan (Raw)
Marty Elias (Raw)
Mickie Henson (SmackDown)
Jim Korderas
(SmackDown)
Chad Patton (Raw)
Charles Robinson (SmackDown)

Pre-show

The WrestleMania XXIV stage set-up before the start of the show

Before the show aired live on

ECW Championship match against Chavo Guerrero later that night.[44] The event officially began with John Legend singing a rendition of "America the Beautiful".[45]

Preliminary matches

The first match was a

Clothesline from Hell to Finlay to score a successful pinfall. This was an interpromotional match.[46]

The next match of the evening was the fourth-annual

see-sawing with another ladder, Jericho flipped the other one and Morrison landed on the ring-ropes groin-first. Jericho even performed a Codebreaker on Punk using a ladder. In the end, Jericho and Punk fought each other on a ladder, but Punk trapped Jericho's one leg in the ladder's steps and retrieved the briefcase to win the match. This was an interpromotional match.[47]

Next after that match, Howard Finkel introduced the 2008 WWE Hall of Fame class: Jack and Gerald Brisco, Gordon Solie (represented by his family), Rocky Johnson, High Chief Peter Maivia (represented by his wife Lia and daughter Ata), Eddie Graham (represented by his son Mike), Mae Young, and Ric Flair (represented by his family).

The next match, which was billed as a "Battle for Brand Supremacy", was between SmackDown's

Samoan Spike, Batista countered the attempt and gave him a spinebuster. Batista won the match by pinning Umaga after a Batista Bomb.[49]

The fourth match for the event featured Chavo Guerrero defending his ECW Championship against Kane. Kane surprised Chavo by emerging from underneath the ring instead of from the entrance stage during his ring entrance.[50] Kane instantly pinned Chavo after a chokeslam and won the ECW Championship in eleven seconds.[51] This was the only ECW match on the show and the only ECW Championship match in WrestleMania history.[50]

Main event matches

chops to Michaels' chest, Michaels executed a second Sweet Chin Music.[47] After getting up on his feet with a worried face, Michaels said to Flair "I'm sorry, I love you", before nailing a final Sweet Chin Music and thus pinning Flair to end his 35-year-long wrestling career.[52] After the match, Michaels left quickly and Flair got a standing ovation from the crowd. An emotional Flair embraced his family at ringside and then, as he proceeded to go backstage, he thanked the crowd for their support.[47][52]

Snoop Dogg at WrestleMania XXIV with Ashley Massaro and tag team partner Maria

The sixth match was the

WWE Divas surrounded the ring and were able to interfere in the match without disqualifications.[53] Due to some technical difficulties, the lights at Citrus Bowl temporarily went out during the match.[47] Near the end, a pin attempt by Maria was prevented when Marella pulled Maria's leg. In response, Raw commentator Jerry Lawler approached and knocked Marella down with a punch. Phoenix executed a Fisherman Suplex and pinned Maria to win the match. After the match, Snoop Dogg executed a Clothesline on Marella and kissed Maria, before leaving with her and Ashley.[53]

Next was

punted Triple H and pinned Cena to win the match and retain the WWE Championship.[54]

Edge lost the World Heavyweight Championship to The Undertaker

The next match was the No Disqualification match between Big Show and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Early in the match, Mayweather repeatedly escaped Big Show's grasp and delivered body shots to him.[47] Mayweather and his accomplices tried to "walk out" of the match, but Big Show walked up the ramp and brought Mayweather back in the ring. As Big Show was about to chokeslam Mayweather, one of Mayweather's accomplices struck a steel chair on Big Show's back, and the latter chokeslammed him in retaliation. Capitalizing from this distraction, Mayweather grabbed that chair and hit Big Show multiple times on the head with it. Finally, Mayweather removed his right glove and put on a pair of brass knuckles to hit Big Show in the face. As a result, Big Show was knocked out as he could not answer the referee's ten count, and Mayweather was declared the winner.[55][56]

The

spear on Undertaker, but was unable to pin him. When Edge delivered another spear to Undertaker, Undertaker applied Hell's Gate and forced Edge to submit to win the World Heavyweight Championship, improving his WrestleMania record to 16–0.[57]

Reception

Approximately 1,058,000 people ordered WrestleMania XXIV, grossing $23.8 million in revenue. This number was fewer than the 1,188,000 buys that

Canadian Online Explorer's professional wrestling section gave the entire event 9 out of 10 stars. The rating was higher than WrestleMania 23 which received 8 out of 10 stars. The main event between The Undertaker and Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship was rated a 9.5 out of 10 stars. The Career Threatening match between Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels was rated a perfect 10 out of 10. Big Show vs. Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr. was rated 7 out of 10 stars, and the Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship between Randy Orton, Triple H and John Cena was rated 8.5 out of 10 stars.[47]

Aftermath

The Undertaker, after defeating Edge at WrestleMania XXIV

After the show, WWE was criticized for a malfunction in the pyrotechnics during The Undertaker's victory celebration. During the celebration, a hot cable for pyrotechnics was sent flying into audience members in the upper seating bowl of the stadium, leaving 45 injured, with some hospitalized. The accident was apparently due to a cable which fireworks were traveling across snapping, thus resulting in the fireworks exploding into the top rows of the upper bowl of the stadium.[59][60] WWE's corporate website released a statement afterward stating that they would investigate the incident, but the results of the investigation were never released.[61]

On the following episode of Raw, Ric Flair made his farewell speech, which led to Triple H introducing various people from Flair's past, such as

the Four Horsemen, Ricky Steamboat, and others, each coming out to give an emotional farewell. Afterward, the entire WWE roster came out to say thank you to Flair (Including Undertaker, who came out after Raw went off the air and hugged Flair and did his kneeling stance). Shawn Michaels, who was clearly upset about retiring Flair, was forgiven by Flair.[62] Despite Flair's forgiveness, his former protégé Batista later started a feud with Michaels, citing Michaels' "selfishness" at WrestleMania for not lying down for Flair.[63][64] The two had a match booked at Backlash, and after a confrontation between Michaels and Chris Jericho, Jericho was later added into the match as a Special Guest Referee.[65] Michaels won with a superkick.[66]

The feud between Randy Orton, John Cena and Triple H continued after WrestleMania with the added involvement of John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) leading to a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match between all four at Backlash. At Backlash, Triple H won his seventh WWE Championship by last pinning Orton.[67] With Matt Hardy's return at WrestleMania, his feud with Montel Vontavious Porter over the WWE United States Championship, that had started in July 2007, was revived with a match booked at Backlash, which Hardy won.[68] The rivalries between The Undertaker and Edge and the one between Kane and Chavo Guerrero both continued with successful title defenses at Backlash. On the May 2 episode of SmackDown, General Manager Vickie Guerrero stripped The Undertaker of the World Heavyweight Championship because of his continued use of his illegal chokehold, claiming she did it to protect the other wrestlers.[69][70]

DVD / Blu-ray release

The event was released on

Blu-ray Disc by WWE Home Video in the U.S. on May 20, 2008, after it had completed broadcast on pay-per-view. It was also released on UMD on August 23 2008. It was the first WWE PPV event to be released via the Blu-ray and UMD format. As well as the event, the DVD/BD release features bonus material in the form of the 2008 Hall of Fame ceremony in its entirety and the battle royal that took place before the event.[71][72][73]

Results

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
No Disqualification match
11:40
10The Undertaker defeated Edge (c) by submission[57]Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship24:03
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
P – the match was broadcast on the pre-show
  1. Snitsky, Mark Henry
    .
  2. ^ Since Flair lost, he had to retire from in-ring competition (though he would later wrestle more matches outside WWE.)
  3. Katie Lea Burchill, Layla, Kelly Kelly, Michelle McCool, Mickie James and Victoria
  4. ^ Ashley Massaro replaced Candice Michelle, who could not participate due to injury

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