10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 34 Facts

4. Stephanie McMahon's Big Debut

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WrestleMania 34 obviously wasn't Stephanie McMahon's 'Mania debut, her being a McMahon and all, but it was the first time she actually laced up the boots and did battle in the squared circle. Stephanie teamed with husband Triple H to take on the duo of a returning Kurt Angle and a debuting Ronda Rousey (more on them shortly) in a match that many fans were somewhat reticent about. A debutant, two long-retired (in wrestling terms) guys and Steph? The expectations were somewhere between train wreck and minor train wreck.

Somehow, someway, the mixed tag team match ended up being the best match on the entire card. Yes, Stephanie McMahon had a better WrestleMania match than Shinsuke Nakamura, AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn and Finn Balor.

That is surprising enough in itself, but this was Stephanie's first match since SummerSlam 2014. Nearly four years had passed between matches, yet here she was, stealing the show. Okay, it was more about Ronda Rousey than anything else, but the former UFC star needed an opponent to ragdoll around, and Stephanie was one heck of a ragdoll.

Stealing the show in your WrestleMania debut? Not bad for a 41-year-old mother of three.

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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.