10 Wrestlers Who Spent The Most Time In The Ring At WWE WrestleMania

2. The Undertaker: 7 Hours, 45 Minutes, 34 Seconds

The Streak was as legendary as WWE said it was, and they - quite rightly - sold the everliving f*ck out of it.

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But not until 2005. It wasn't designed to be a Streak; in the formative stage, imagine this, it was a byproduct of protecting a major star over the span of several years!

Those early matches were sh*te because 'Taker, who could go, didn't much have to and couldn't against the dismal likes of an ageing King Kong Bundy and the statue that was Giant Gonzalez.

His work improved drastically with the increased ability of his opponents. Randy Orton proved a great potential spoiler; Ric Flair's underrated sports entertainer years yielded a vintage WWE special; Batista, in an improbably great banger, threw back the bombs 'Taker lobbed at him in a match that wouldn't have felt too out of place in Japan; Edge, lacking any imposing qualities, used his immense ring IQ to extract awesome back-and-forth suspense.

And then, over four seminal years in back-to-back epics with Shawn Michaels and Triple H, the Undertaker told the story of becoming human, in an almost profound theme, before becoming truly immortal.

Beyond the classic with CM Punk - a necessary restoration (and advancement) of the true babyface versus heel dynamic - everything else sucked sh*t.

People liked the Boneyard Match a great deal, and even those who didn't admired the audacity of it feeling like WrestleMania at WrestleMania 36.

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