10 Obscure WWE WrestleMania Facts You'll SWEAR Aren't Real

Until the pandemic, WrestleMania was exclusively a springtime Sunday tradition, a close to a weekend and something to generate conversation at school or work on Monday morning. The genesis of the two-night extravaganza in 2020 meant that WrestleMania took place on Saturdays as well, requiring fans to tune in on an evening other than Sunday.

However, that’s not true.

Way, way back in the early days of modern-day WWF, before Hulk Hogan pressed 700-pound Andre the Giant over his head in a torch-passing moment that preceded the Giant’s death by mere months (if you don’t get the snark here, apologies), many of the traditions that came to be associated with WrestleMania had not yet been canonized.

Witness WrestleMania 2, an event that stands out as an anachronism among all the other Manias.

Many know the piece of trivia that WrestleMania 2 is the only such event to have three host locations, with Mania divided between arenas in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. It was an experiment that was roundly criticized and never again attempted.

But WrestleMania 2 also holds the distinction of being the only WrestleMania to take place on a Monday.

That’s right, more than five years before This Tuesday in Texas, the WWF tried its hand at a signature PPV/CCTV event on a weeknight. Today, it would seem unfathomable to hold WrestleMania on a Monday night (in no small part due to Monday Night Raw existing), but even the notion of a Friday WrestleMania would seem outrageous… unless WWE wanted to make CM Punk’s cryptic “main event night four of a buy-one-get-one-free extravaganza” a reality.