Posted on 5/19/126 by Colin Vassallo
Appearing on the Power Players With Brian Sozzi podcast on
Yahoo! Finance, TKO President and Chief Operating Officer
Mark Shapiro admitted that WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas was
a “mistake” which is his fault.
Shapiro said that due to the huge success of the previous
year in Vegas, he went to WWE President Nick Khan and told
him to make the 2026 WrestleMania in Las Vegas again.
“I said to Nick Khan, ‘We’ve gotta go back to Vegas next
year. We have to move New Orleans down the road and we got
to come back to Vegas,'” Shapiro said.
But Shapiro said he has no regrets on the gamble of going
back-to-back in Las Vegas and said the only reason everyone
kept hearing that it wasn’t like the prior year is because
there was no “first mover experience.”
The interview was actually recorded around the time of
WrestleMania 42 but released a month later.
WrestleMania 42 was originally announced to be taking place
in New Orleans by The Rock himself during an appearance on
Smackdown. Money In The Bank this year is taking place in
New Orleans instead, with a future WrestleMania returning to
the city somewhere down the line.