WWE News: New Favorites Emerge as Potential Host Cities for WrestleMania 29 & 30

There have been all kinds of conflicting reports out there this week about which cities will play host to WrestleMania 29 in 2013 and WrestleMania 30 in 2014. 

One day, the favorite is here, the next day the favorite is there and so on and so forth. 

And—what do you know?—it looks like we have two new cities in the lead once again. 

From WrestleZone.com: 

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After speaking with sources, WZ can confirm that WrestleMania 29 is going to take place at MetLife Stadium, home of the New York Giants and Jets football teams. 

This will be the first time this venue has held a professional wrestling event. WrestleMania 29 will also beat the NFL to the punch of having a major event there because WrestleMania 29 will take place in late March or early April of 2013 and the NFL is going to hold the Super Bowl there in February of 2014.

This is reportedly a huge success for Vince McMahon as he is wanting to hold the first big event at MetLife stadium and set an attendance record before the Super Bowl takes place there. Sources said McMahon had a big smile on his face for getting WrestleMania 29 at MetLife Stadium. 

WrestleMania 29 taking place at MetLife Stadium will also give the New York market a WrestleMania which has some significance because WrestleMania 30 is not going to be held in New York's Madison Sqaure Garden as tradition would have it. WrestleMania 30 is going to take place at the Dallas Cowboys stadium located in Arlington, Texas. 

WrestleMania 30 will not be at MSG because WWE wants to stick with only having WrestleMania at stadiums from here on out. Madison Square Garden is expected to continue to get big pay-per-views like it did with Survivor Series this past year. 

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Let me sum that up for you: It looks like WrestleMania 29 will be held in MetLife Stadium (which gels with the Popthecrowd.com report that WrestleMania 29 is headed to East Rutherford, N.J.), WrestleMania 30 will not take place in Madison Square Garden as expected and instead is likely headed to Cowboys Stadium. 

I have absolutely no problem with any of this. 

I’ve written all week long that I didn’t think it would be fair to the WWE’s fans to host a sixth straight WrestleMania in the southern part of the United States (five in the southeast region), and thus, bringing the pay-per-view up north gives fans in that region a better chance of attending it before it goes back south in 2014. 

MetLife Stadium is a great new stadium in an area that’s rich in wrestling tradition in history, so it will likely come along with awesome fans and a raucous crowd. 

Meanwhile, Cowboys Stadium is the premiere stadium in the United States, and it was always just a matter of time before WrestleMania made its way there. Jerry Jones’ billion-dollar creation likely will be able to fit 100,000-plus fans for WrestleMania 30, so don’t be shocked to see the WWE go after a number of attendance records for the show. 

While these reports haven’t been confirmed by the WWE, I wouldn’t be surprised if MetLife and Cowboys Stadium were the next two hosts of WrestleMania.

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