10 Fascinating WWE Facts About WrestleMania 34

9. Undertaker's Shortest Ever WrestleMania Match...

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At just two minutes and 45 seconds, The Undertaker's squash victory over John Cena turned out to be his shortest ever.

Stuck with an increasingly complex WrestleMania legacy following his WrestleMania XXX defeat to Brock Lesnar, Undertaker's average match quality settled on "mixed" after some of his latter showings brought down a mean greatly enhanced by his late-2000s in-ring renaissance.

The one thing none of them had was a run-time as swift as this one. Even his squash victory over Jimmy Snuka at WrestleMania VII and clandestine victory over King Kong Bundy at WrestleMania XI broke the four and six minute marks respectively, and he'd worked a total of 68 minutes against Bray Wyatt, Shane McMahon and Roman Reigns in the years since the Lesnar loss.

'The Deadman' also didn't know then what we all do now - this was his penultimate outing on 'The Grandest Stage', and his last one in front of crowds after 2020's WrestleMania 36 was impacted by the start of the pandemic. Not that any of that was going through his mind in 2018. Quite the opposite in fact...

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