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Promotional poster featuring and Date April 1, 2012 City Venue Attendance 78,363 Pay-per-view chronology ← Previous Next → chronology ← Previous Next → WrestleMania XXVIII was the twenty-eighth annual (PPV) produced. It took place on April 1, 2012 at in.

It is the highest grossing PPV event in professional wrestling history. There were eight on the event's and one pre-show match that was streamed on. The main event, in which defeated, was advertised a year in advance.

The match, and its yearlong buildup, was broadcast on and later sent to and, collected under the title of The Rock vs John Cena: Once in a Lifetime. The match was later included in WWE Best PPV Matches of 2012 as the Most Anticipated WrestleMania Match of All Time.

Despite the 'Once in a Lifetime' tagline, the two would wrestle each other again at for the, with Cena emerging victorious. A record of 78,363 fans at for WrestleMania XXVIII The city of Miami Gardens was one of the two major contenders to host along with; in February 2010, Atlanta was awarded the right to host the event. According to the Miami-Dade Sports Commission, WWE management felt that Miami's planning for the event would have been too hectic with many other sporting events held in the area around the same time of the planning, such as. However, the Miami area was reportedly considered for the next event due to its international ties, facilities, airports and experience of hosting previous major events. Bidding documents were sent to seventeen cities in consideration for hosting a WrestleMania event between 2012 and 2014, with fourteen replying in interest. Other cities under consideration for WrestleMania XXVIII included Los Angeles,, New York City,,,,,,,.

The city of also showed interest but had to withdraw from bidding for the next two years due to hosting events such as the. Miami was revealed as the site of WrestleMania on February 9, 2011, by and at a WWE press conference at the. WrestleMania XXVIII was the second Wrestlemania event that was hosted in the state of, the fourth open-air event, and the third event to be held entirely outdoors.

For hosting the event, WWE received a $250,000 cash incentive from the Miami-Dade Sports Commission raised through grants and sponsorships. Along with WrestleMania XXVIII, a series of events grouped as 'WrestleMania Week' was held in the week preceding the event including WrestleMania's annual WrestleMania Axxess at the, the 2012 ceremony at the, the finals of the WrestleMania Reading Challenge, and a Celebrity Pro-Am Golf tournament. Storylines [ ] WrestleMania consisted of that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds or that played out on WWE's primary television programs. Qlab 238 download. Wrestlers portrayed or as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. (left) and (right) agree to fight at WrestleMania XXVIII The of WrestleMania XXVIII pitted wrestling against.

On the February 14, 2011 episode of, The Rock was revealed as the host of, and upon his return to WWE, began a with John Cena (and Cena's opponent at that WrestleMania, then-WWE Champion, ), which continued for weeks in terms of verbal insults, until the March 28 episode of Raw, where Cena delivered the to the Rock after he fended off attacks from the Miz. At WrestleMania XXVII, the Rock got involved in the main event match between The Miz and John Cena, which initially ended in a. After the match was restarted under, the Rock delivered a to Cena, thus enabling the Miz to win the match. The next night on Raw, Cena challenged the Rock to a; Rock accepted and proposed that it be held at WrestleMania XXVIII. After winning the championship from The Miz at, Cena interrupted The Rock's birthday celebrations during the May 2 episode of Raw to announce his intention to defend the WWE Championship against The Rock at WrestleMania XXVIII.

Such intentions were however thwarted by Cena losing the title against at in July. At in November, Cena teamed with the Rock (who wrestled his first WWE match in almost eight years, last competing at ), and billed as 'the most charismatic ', and defeated the Miz.

After the match, The Rock gave a Rock Bottom to Cena. Chief Operating Officer Triple H being taunted by ahead of their second consecutive match A second main event, billed as the 'end of an era', saw face in a match. The previous year at WrestleMania XXVII, in a, The Undertaker defeated Triple H via, in their second encounter at a (the first being at in 2001, where the Undertaker won as well).

However, in the post-match events, due to the harsh physicality suffered during the bout, the Undertaker, for the first time in his career, was carted away from the by the medical staff on a stretcher. After a near ten-month long hiatus, The Undertaker returned on the January 30, 2012 episode of Raw, confronting and challenging Triple H to a rematch at WrestleMania XXVIII. The Undertaker, having been dissatisfied of his post-WrestleMania match scenario the previous year, stated that he 'did not want 'that scene' to be a lasting memory' of him and was willing to give Triple H 'another chance at immortality'. After Triple H refused to accept the challenge the next week on Raw, his close friend and, appeared on the February 13 episode of Raw to instigate him in accepting The Undertaker's challenge, which was in vain as Triple H stated he was willing to put his ego and personal agendas aside for the future of WWE, and viewed The Undertaker's as a 'brand' to cash-in for the company, finally ending the argument saying he would not be the one to end it. Then, on the February 20 episode of Raw, The Undertaker still remained adamant in getting a WrestleMania rematch with Triple H, going so far as to label Triple H as a 'coward', and comparing his abilities and career to that of Shawn Michaels. Enraged by these comments, Triple H finally accepted The Undertaker's challenge at WrestleMania XXVIII, saying that if 'he [Undertaker] wanted an end, they would go all the way', and proposed that they would compete in a Hell in a Cell match.