10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 35 Facts

1. The Longest (One Day) WrestleMania Ever

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Once upon a time, WrestleMania was a best of the best type of show, clocking in at around four hours and featuring less than two hands worth of matches that really felt like big-time bouts. It was special, every bit as special as WWE wants you to think it is, as the company succeeding in making the Show of Shows feels like, well the Show of Shows.

WrestleMania 35 was seven and a half hours long and featured 16 matches. Seven and a half hours. 450 minutes. Nothing should be that long, even the most enjoyable things on the planet. Kieslowski's Dekalog is one of cinema's great achievements, but even that is best enjoyed in 10 separate sittings. To be blunt, only a masochist would enjoy sitting through nearly eight hours of largely mediocre wrestling.

This was the longest pay-per-view in WWE history, a record that will hopefully never be broken. Yes, WrestleMania is now a two-day event, but you get the point. The time between Tony Nese winning the Cruiserweight Championship and Becky Lynch making history was almost the same length as a flight from London to New York, a flight that traverses 3,459 miles. Think about that for a second.

WrestleMania 35 was far longer than anything should ever be. History was made in New Jersey that day (and night), but the interminable nature of it all is what remains.

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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.