10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 34 Facts

7. It Could Have Been Minoru Suzuki

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For that matter, Braun Strowman could have picked Minoru Suzuki to be his mystery tag team partner. Given the choice between an actual child and one of the most dangerous men in all of professional wrestling, Strowman chose the child. Maybe Shane McMahon has a point about his intelligence after all...

Minoru Suzuki was in attendance at WrestleMania 34, but he wasn't the only NJPW star in the New Orleans crowd on that fateful night (and day). Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi were also part of the 78,133 fans at WM34, along with Juice Robinson and Tomohiro Ishii. Why was there such an abundance of New Japan stars at WrestleMania 34? Surely 'The Show of Shows' is answer enough to that question, but it isn't entirely shocking considering the whole 'Shinsuke Nakamura making his WrestleMania debut against AJ Styles' thing. Rumour has it, Tanahashi was very entertained by Shinsuke's subsequent heel turn.

WrestleMania is when WWE gets to pretend that it still is a major mainstream media phenomenon, and 2018 was the height of 'WrestleMania Weekend Madness'. Hordes of professional wrestlers were in New Orleans, hordes of them. It's no great shock that many found their way into the Superdome crowd.

All of which makes Nicholas an even more frustrating piece of 'Mania history. Fans were this close to getting 'WWE RAW Tag Team Champions Braun Strowman and Kazuchika Okada'.

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