10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 36 Facts

2. The Rule Of 6 Hits WrestleMania

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Despite being referred to as the Showcase of the Immortals, WrestleMania is the best at shovelling people into matches for the sake of it. The term 'get everyone on the card match' was practically created to describe bouts at the Show of Shows, be they the all-too-frequent battle royals or seemingly random multi-team tag matches that appear out of nowhere.

COVID-19 put an end to this in 2020, as having more than a handful of people in such close proximity to each other was decidedly frowned upon. There was a five-person match on night two (Bayley defending her SmackDown Women's Championship against Sasha, Lacey Evans, Naomi and Tamina), but this was the first WrestleMania since WMXV that didn't have a match featuring six or more people on the card. If we're not counting matches that aired on Heat before the main show, that streak stretches all the way back to WrestleMania XI.

It wasn't for the want of trying, of course. The SmackDown Tag Team Championship match was scheduled to be a three-team (six-person) bout, but coronavirus intervened and trimmed that ladder match in half. The tag team turmoil match on night one of WrestleMania 37 means that all is back to normal in multi-person WrestleMania land.

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