IWE WrestleMania 23
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| WrestleMania 23 | ||
 Promotional poster featuring the Main Event Matches involved | ||
| Tagline(s) | All Grown Up | |
| Theme song(s) | "Ladies and Gentlemen" by Saliva "The Memory Will Never Die" by Default | |
| Imformation | ||
| Promotion | International Wrestling Entertainment | |
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown! XCW | |
| Date | April 1, 2007 | |
| Attendance | 80,103 | |
| Venue | Ford Field | |
| City | Detroit, Michigan | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| No Way Out (2007) | WrestleMania 23 | Backlash (2007) |
| WrestleMania chronology | ||
| WrestleMania 22 | WrestleMania 23 | WrestleMania XXIV |
WrestleMania 23 was the twenty-third annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by International Wrestling Entertainment (IWE). It took place on April 1, 2007 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The event was the first WrestleMania at Ford Field and the second to take place in the Detroit metropolitan area (following WrestleMania III, at the Pontiac Silverdome, in Pontiac, Michigan).
The event was a joint-brand pay-per-view, featuring performers from the Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW brands. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's supercard, a scheduling of more than one main event. The main match on the Raw brand was [[Dustin Simpson versus Ryan Barnhart for the IWE Championship, in which Simpson won The predominant match on the SmackDown! brand was Jesse Dern versus The Undertaker for the World Heavyweight Championship, in which The Undertaker was victorious. The primary match on the XCW brand was an Eight Man Tag Team match between The XCW Originals and The New Breed; The XCW Originals claimed victory in the match. The featured matches on the undercard included Bobby Ashley versus Umaga
Tickets for the event went on sale on November 11, 2006. The all-time Ford Field attendance record of 80,103 consisted of people from all fifty states, twenty-four countries, and nine Canadian provinces, making it the second highest attendance at a WWE event, behind WrestleMania 3. WrestleMania 23 grossed US$5.38 million in ticket sales, breaking the previous record of $3.9 million held at WrestleMania X8.
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