Tickets for the event went on sale on November 11, 2006. The all-time attendance record at Ford Field of 80,103 people from 24 countries, all 50 states and 9 Canadian provinces, pumped an estimated US$25 million into the local economy, and made this event the highest grossing one-day live event in WWE history, grossing more than $5.38 million in ticket sales. [1] This makes WrestleMania 23 the highest-grossing pay-per-view in WWE history as well as the highest-grossing event in professional wrestling history in North America, shattering the previous record of $3.9 million held at WrestleMania X8.[2]
During the match Jeff Hardy jumped of a ladder to leg drop Edge who was laying on a ladder causing it to break. Edge was taken out of the match by medical personal.
Soul legend Aretha Franklin performed "America the Beautiful" at the start of the event, reprising her role from twenty years earlier at WrestleMania III.
Cena is the second man in history to retain the WWE Championship at back-to-back WrestleManias. Hulk Hogan was the first, retaining the Championship at Wrestlemania 2 and III. Cena, as well as being undefeated at WrestleMania, is the first to win the WWE Championship match three years in a row.
This was the second year in a row that Cena main evented WrestleMania, and both times he won with the STFU on a member of D-Generation X. It is also the second year in a row that the World Heavyweight Championship has changed hands, but not the WWE Championship.
File:Cena23.jpgJohn Cena after retaining the WWE Championship
This is the 5th consecutive WrestleMania without an Intercontinental Championship match, 4th with the championship being active.
With this WrestleMania win, The Undertaker is the only superstar to win both the WWE Championship and the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania.
