Various News: WrestleMania Makes Forbes’ Fab 40 List, Today’s Wrestling Birthdays

– Forbes has ranked WrestleMania at #6 on their Most Powerful Sports Brand list. They value the brand at $195 million, up 8.3% from the year before. The top 6 breaks down like this…

6. WrestleMania
5. NCAA Final Four
4. FIFA World Cup
3. The Winter Olympics
2. The Summer Olympics
1. The Superbowl

– WWE posted the following on the announcement…

WrestleMania makes Forbes’ Fab 40 list of most powerful sports brands

WrestleMania has once again ranked on Forbes’ Fab 40. The Showcase of the Immortals, which just celebrated its 33rd edition this past April in Orlando, ranked at No. 6 on the magazine’s long-running list of the world’s most valuable sports brands, above institutions such as the UEFA Champions League and the Daytona 500. This year’s WrestleMania broke the Orlando Citrus Bowl’s attendance record with 75,245 WWE Universe members from all 50 states and 62 different countries. The previous Orlando Citrus Bowl attendance record – 74,635 – had been set by WrestleMania XXIV in 2008. WrestleMania also ranked on Forbes’ list in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

– Here are today’s wrestling birthdays…

* Rosa Mendes (38)
* Perry Saturn (51)
* 2 Cold Scorpio (52)