10 Amazing WWE WrestleMania 41 Stats, Facts & Figures

9. Reigns Ties A Main Event Record, Extends Another

WWE WrestleMania 41 Night 2 Roman Reigns CM Punk
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At this stage in his career, Roman Reigns is fast becoming the Samoan Undertaker: he shows up at WrestleMania and commands a major match, even if he hasn’t competed in six months.

Thanks to his standing as WWE’s biggest star this decade, and Vince McMahon’s pet project in the 2010s, the Tribal Chief managed to eclipse a decades-old Hulk Hogan record last year and padded it this year. Reigns wrestled his 10th WrestleMania main event match on Saturday, extending his lead. Last year, he competed in both main events, tying and surpassing Hogan’s eight times closing Mania.

But Saturday also marked the fifth consecutive year that Roman had a WrestleMania main event match, which tied Hulk’s mark from WrestleManias 5-9. John Cena, Triple H, and Cody Rhodes each have main-evented three consecutive 'Manias, with Cody’s streak still active.

If Reigns sticks around for another year, odds are good that he’ll find his way into the last match of the night on one of the two evenings in New Orleans.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.