WrestleMania XXVI

WrestleMania XXVI was the twenty-sixth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on March 28, 2010 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in the Phoenix (Phoenix, Arizona) suburb of Glendale, Arizona. This was the fourth WrestleMania to feature a non-title main event and the first since WrestleMania XI. The event was the first WrestleMania to be held in the state of Arizona and the third to be held in an open-air venue, after Wrestlemania IX and Wrestlemania XXIV.

WrestleMania XXVI was a joint-promotion (WWE Brand Extension) event, featuring performers both from the Raw (WWE Raw) and SmackDown (WWE SmackDown) brands. Ten matches were featured on the events card (Card (sports)), which featured a supercard (Card (sports)#Supercard), a scheduling of more than one main bout. The first of these matches was a no disqualification (Professional wrestling match types#No Disqualification match), no count-out (Professional wrestling match types#No Count-Out match) match that featured The Undertaker defeating Shawn Michaels to improve his undefeated WrestleMania streak (The Undertaker#WrestleMania record) to 18-0. Per the pre-match stipulation, Michaels was forced to retire (Professional wrestling match types#Retirement match). The second was a singles match (Professional wrestling match types#Singles match) for the WWE Championship that saw John Cena defeat the champion, Batista (Dave Batista) to win the championship. The third was a singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship (World Heavyweight Championship (WWE)) featured the champion, Chris Jericho, defeating Edge (Edge (wrestler)) to retain the title. Featured matches on the undercard (Card (sports)) included a 10-Diva tag team match, Bret Hart versus Vince McMahon in a No Holds Barred match (Hardcore wrestling), Rey Mysterio (Rey Mysterio, Jr.) versus CM Punk, Triple H versus Sheamus, the sixth annual Money in the Bank ladder match, Randy Orton versus Ted DiBiase (Ted DiBiase, Jr.) versus Cody Rhodes in a Triple Threat match (Professional wrestling match types#Basic non-elimination matches) and a Unified WWE Tag Team Championship match between the champion team, The Big Show (Paul Wight) and The Miz (Mike Mizanin), against the team of John Morrison (John Morrison (wrestler)) and R-Truth (Ron Killings).

Tickets for the event commenced sale to the public on November 7, 2009. Approximately 885,000 people ordered the event, grossing $39 million in revenue. This figure is down from WrestleMania XXVs figure of 960,000 buys. With an attendance of 72,219, the event grossed (gross (economics)) US$ (United States dollar)5.8 million in ticket sales, making the event the highest grossing and attended entertainment event held at the University of Phoenix Stadium, and the third highest grossing event in WWE history after WrestleMania XXV and WrestleMania XXIV.