10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 34 Facts

2. An Olympic Tag Team

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Making your in-ring debut at WrestleMania is one thing (albeit a bizarrely common one), but doing so against the tag team of Ronda Rousey and Kurt Angle? Yikes. The odds were stacked against Stephanie McMahon, that's for sure.

Of course, it is important to remember that this was not only Ronda Rousey's WrestleMania debut, but also her first professional wrestling match. Full stop. It isn't as if Ronda was Snooki either, expected to stand on the apron and do one bit of gymnastics before collecting a big cheque. Ronda Rousey was going to revolutionise women's wrestling in WWE, and her starting point was a big-time match at WrestleMania 34.

Teaming with Kurt Angle was obviously a massive help, albeit a Kurt Angle that may or may not have been a friendly ghost version of the Olympic Hero. In teaming up, the two became the first team of Olympic medallists in WrestleMania history, as Kurt's 1996 wrestling gold joined forces with Ronda's 2008 judo bronze to make the most legitimate fighting team possible. 'Chief Brand Officer' Stephanie didn't stand a chance.

There have been other Olympic medallists in WrestleMania history, namely Bad News Brown (a judo bronze medallist in 1976), but this was the first time to that two joined forces.

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