10 Shortest Matches In WWE WrestleMania History
You've got 30 seconds - make them count.
If we imagine that WWE is like football, then WrestleMania is basically the World Cup. The pinnacle of the entire industry. The culmination of years of hard work and dedication. The event for which wrestlers often spend their whole lives striving.
Well, now imagine how annoyed footballers would be if they got to the World Cup only be told that, this year, matches are only going to last 20 seconds. Under these new rules, they will sing their national anthems, take their positions on the pitch, and then be ushered back down the tunnel for a post-game shower.
This is a fate that befalls at least two wrestlers almost every year at the Showcase of the Immortals, where time constraints often mean that a pair of performers see their time in the ring cut from a respectable 10 minutes down to, like, one (and that's if they're lucky).
None of the announced matches for this year's show seem likely to join this list, but that's the beauty of it all: you almost never know when it's going to come. Perhaps Roman will take the WWE Title on Sunday inside 12 seconds?
10. Butterbean Vs. Bart Gunn (WrestleMania XV) (00:35)
Anyone who complains about WWE being fake should be required by law to watch this match. This is what happens when it's real: you get 35 seconds of action - less time than it takes for The Undertaker to lift someone up for a Tombstone.
Bart Gunn was the unfortunate victim of WrestleMania XV's boxing match, having won the opportunity face Butterbean - a real-life heavyweight boxer - after winning the company's ill-fated Brawl For All tournament a few months earlier.
Many greats of the squared circle have adapted well to legitimate fighting disciplines, but Gunn (at least that evening in March 1999) was not one of them. A single punch from Butterbean was enough to knock him into another dimension.
He well and truly learned his lesson, and so, it seems, did Vince McMahon. Unless you count that time Daniel Puder nearly broke Kurt Angle's arm on SmackDown, WWE has steered well clear of shoot-fighting in the two decades since.