10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 34 Facts

1. A Quick Payday For 'Taker And Cena

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When all is said and done, The Undertaker vs. John Cena will hold a special place in WrestleMania history. How so? Well, it will go down in history as one of the few WrestleMania matches that took place that should have taken place. No, there are no typos in that sentence. It happened, but it really should have happened.

Allow me to explain. When The Undertaker was having his run of actually quite good WrestleMania matches ('Mania 21 through 29, for the record), John Cena was establishing the LOLCENAWINZ characters that we all remember so fondly. If ever there was a time to book a match that would have put The Streak in real jeopardy, it was then. Nobody really believed that Mark Henry, Edge or CM Punk was going to end the famous run, but Cena? Oh boy.

'Taker vs. Cena eventually did happen at WrestleMania 34, but what actually transpired was the sort of thing usually reserved for characters like Elias. Cena sat around in the crowd waiting for his challenge to be answered, only to be squashed in less than three minutes. It was and remains very, very weird.

Still, the two minutes and 45 seconds from bell to bell remains the shortest WrestleMania match for either man, an incredible payday and then some. Of course, Cena had to sit around in the crowd for a couple of hours and 'Taker took about that same time to make his entrance, but that is neither here nor there.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.