The largest event in professional wrestling will take place in Las Vegas in 2025, according to a statement made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on Saturday. Allegiant Stadium will be put under lockdown for two nights on April 19 and 20 by WrestleMania XLI.

Since its 1993 headline run at Caesars Palace, this yearly event will be held in Sin City for the first time.

“Las Vegas is the sports and entertainment capital of the world,” Nick Khan, WWE president, is quoted as saying in Saturday’s press release. “Allegiant Stadium has proven to be even greater than the A+ venue Las Vegas guaranteed it would be.”

U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis has been Minnesota Sports and Events' preferred site for WrestleMania XLI for a number of months now, ever since it submitted its application to host the event. However, Scott Roeben, a blogger for Vital Vegas, was the first to formally forecast Las Vegas instead on February 9.

Devoted followers have been curious as to why the announcement was postponed. The event that typically serves as the announcement platform for WrestleMania each year has been over for almost a month.

The most plausible explanation is a last-minute change.

Why, then, 32 Years?

Though the maximum audience at a Las Vegas venue has not increased, WWE has been increasing gradually since 1993, when it was still largely a made-for-TV event. 

Since 2007, only venues with a capacity of more than 65,000 have hosted what is also known as "The Showcase of Immortals" (excluding the COVID-affected years of 2020 and 2021).

However, the Raiders didn't construct a stadium that size in Las Vegas until 2020. SummerSlam 2021, the WWE's first high-end live event following a run of closed-door shows during the pandemic, was also held at Allegiant Stadium.

Since combining with the UFC, another massive sports entertainment organization, under the TKO Group Holdings umbrella last September, WWE has also been drawn to Vegas.

WWE moved its developmental NXT Battleground event from May 26 in Savanna, Georgia to the UFC Apex, the production and events hub that organizes "UFC Fight Night" events, on June 9. This was the company's first official crossover transfer.