10 Fascinating WWE Facts About WrestleMania 35

9. The Hardy Boyz' Music Played Continuously For Nearly FIVE MINUTES

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Specifically four minutes and 29 seconds, but rounding up feels justified for anybody that sat through it in person that night.

It's a beloved theme harking back to various beloved times for multiple generations of fans, and still generates a pop in AEW in spite of the fact that people know they'll have to watch a Hardy Boyz match when it fades out. But four and a half minutes was cruel and unusual punishment for the New Jersey crowd. Not least because they were only working the pre-show Andre The Giant Battle Royal.

If the time doesn't seem that excessive, compare it to that of main eventers Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch, who left their locker rooms and/or helicopters and made it down there in three, four and one and a half minutes respectively.

Unsurprisingly, only Triple H's five minute disasterpiece of an arrival gobbled up more time. 'The Game' was presented as surviving a Mad Max: Fury Road-style truck chase before finally hitting the ring for a match against Batista. He took over five minutes to make it, before taking five times' that amount of time to defeat 'The Animal'.

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