10 Things You Only Learn Attending WWE WrestleMania Live

10. The Real Reaction To The Real American

At WrestleMania 35, Alexa Bliss promised a WrestleMania Moment with one click of her fingers. And, with one click of her fingers, she summoned the Immortal Hulk Hogan from the back.

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Now, what you can hear and see on the WWE Network broadcast is a deafening wall of sound and a vista of outstretched arms, all pointed to the sky, in the direction of that dead child he made up to sell a novelty record. It looks, for all the world, like an entire stadium is riding a wave of nostalgic sensory overload.

In reality, there was a caveat to that pop, in that it wasn't unanimously positive. Myself and several others added to the din with a note of incredulity. I popped, because Real American is a euphoric ultra-cheese banger of pure triumph - but there was a guffaw in there, too.

I appreciated the sheer audacious balls on WWE to immediately re-embrace Hulk Hogan on the WrestleMania stage, even if I can never again look at my childhood hero through the same, six year-old lens. Others were less conflicted; a very audible smattering of boos were not picked up by the mics in the upper tier.

This is specific to WrestleMania 35, but this must happen most years; in a stark inverse to the RAW after WrestleMania, the vocal minority is muted on the Grandest Stage.

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