10 Obscure WWE WrestleMania Facts You'll SWEAR Aren't Real
You think you know everything there is to know about WrestleMania? Think again.
If there’s a universal, unifying truth across different sports, it’s that each sport has at least one signature championship event.
American football has the Super Bowl. Football (as the rest of the world knows it) has the World Cup. Baseball has the World Series. Golf has the Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open and the Open Championship. And so on.
For professional wrestling, WWE’s signature PPV/PLE has become synonymous with those major events. When talking to casual viewers or non-fans, WrestleMania is still the pinnacle of the industry, a decades-old spectacle that has endured as other wrestling promotions and events have risen and fallen.
WrestleMania’s 40-plus years of history has resulted in a litany of records, statistics and trivia that fans can pull out of a hat at any given moment. Some of it is pretty top-of-mind, such as the Undertaker’s Streak and 25-2 record, Roman Reigns’ dominance as a main-eventer, or Randy “Macho Man” Savage winning four matches in one night to win the WWF Championship at WrestleMania IV.
But as with many other signature sporting events, WrestleMania’s longevity has enabled studious fans to dig through the minutia to identify obscure facts that are so random that they just have to be made-up.
However we assure you that these facts are indeed true. So buckle up for some truly obscure factoids that you can break out to surprise your friends.
Let’s get to it…
10. Snoop Dogg’s Mania Success
We’re previously documented that Snoop Dogg is the most prolific celebrity in WrestleMania history, appearing at five shows through the years in various capacities.
The D-O-Double-G has been involved in a backstage segment, performed his cousin Sasha Banks’ entrance, served as a guest commentator, and hosted a WrestleMania.
It was at WrestleMania 39 where Snoop was called into action to “wrestle” an impromptu match against his co-host The Miz after planned impromptu opponent Shane McMahon tore his ACL seconds into the match. (Yes, that’s a real thing that happened.) Snoop would clock Miz and pin him to win the “match.”
As absurd as that sounds, Snoop Dogg is technically 1-0 at WrestleMania. That means that Snoop (along with other celebrities such as Lawrence Taylor and Maria Menounos) has more WrestleMania wins than superstars such as Goldust (0-5-2), Asuka (0-5), Big E (0-4-1) and the Dudley Boyz (0-4).
What makes Snoop’s situation so bizarre is that it wasn’t planned. His participation was called on the fly after Shane’s injury. As a result of being in the right place at the right time, he owns something many longtime WWE wrestlers can’t claim: a WrestleMania victory.