10 Times Really Weird S**t Happened At WWE WrestleMania 34
You don't see that every day.
In terms of match quality, WrestleMania 34 will probably go down in the history books as passable, or perhaps good, if the authors are feeling generous. It was much better than some of the event's early efforts, to be sure, but it didn't hold a candle to X-Seven or XIX, both of which have come to symbolise what WWE at its best truly looks like.
One measure by which it does score pretty highly, however, is weirdness. Even by the standards of Vince McMahon, Sunday night was a strange show. A lot of the stuff that went down - be it big stars losing or a 10-year-old kid winning the tag team titles - was virtually impossible to see coming in the build-up.
Sadly for the wrestlers who spent their entire year preparing for it, this probably won't keep the critics from ripping apart that disappointing final hour and a half, wherein both of the event's main attractions abjectly failed to deliver the in-ring spectacles we were initially promised.
But, in better news, it gives us fans an inexhaustible supply of things to look back on and ask, "what was that?"
10. A 10-Year-Old Won The Tag Titles
There's an unwritten rule in wrestling about putting one of your titles on a performer who is over the age of about 50. Mostly, this is just naked age discrimination - but it also makes sense if you want the division to be taken seriously.
The younger the better, basically, and that's why WWE officials saw fit this weekend to put one half of the Raw Tag Team Championship around the waist of Nicholas, a 10-year-old boy Braun Strowman pulled from the crowd in lieu of a professional partner.
A lot of us aren't really sure what to make of this. It seems inherently mean-spirited to complain about the effect it could have on the credibility of the belt when the real headline here is that a kid just got to live out his dream in front of a capacity crowd at WrestleMania (even if it did happen to be senior official John Cone's son).
That's pretty cool, if also a little short-sighted on the part of Braun. Thanks to his partner's scheduling conflicts (he's still in the fourth grade, so following the rest of the WWE roster around the country isn't really an option), the duo were forced to relinquish their belts just 24 hours later on Raw.