WWE News: WrestleMania Venues Coming Rent-Free, HBK Talks PG Product, More

– The Wrestling Observer reports that WWE is not paying rent for Levi’s Stadium or the SAP Center for WrestleMania 31 and the Hall of Fame. The company is getting use of both venues at no cost as part of the deal Santa Clara struck with the company to hold the event there.

– Shawn Michaels spoke with ChristianPost.com promoting his new book and said the following about WWE’s current PG product:

“[The Attitude Era] was very successful and lucrative for the guys in it at that time but when wrestling first went sort of mainstream so to speak in the 80s, with Hulk Hogan in it, that was certainly more PG than it was Attitude Era. I would say that way back when in the 50s when it was again on at primetime it was the Gorgeous George era, it was more, certainly more realistic but it wasn’t Attitude Era. People talk about the Attitude Era as if it was some kind of longstanding, it was a four-year run out of a line of work that’s been around for fifty-plus years. I would always have to say that ultimately everything is done more for the bottom line of making a profit. WWE is more profitable if it appeals to more people.”

– WWE posted the following video of the Divas reacting to Madusa’s Hall of Fame announcement: