10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2017
3. The Longest Pay-Per-View Match Of 2017
In a year full of explosive multi-man matches, main event epics and The Undertaker assembling something so sluggish with Roman Reigns that he could barely stand to watch it back, nobody got more time to tell their story on pay-per-view all year than Kevin Owens and Shane McMahon at Hell In A Cell 2017.
Truthfully, 39 minutes was too long, but the pair assembled a fairly worthy payoff to the first version of their programme, famously concluding with Sami Zayn saving longstanding rival Owens from 'The Money' as he flew from the top of the giant structure.
Only the Royal Rumble match itself went beyond 40, with even the Team Raw Vs Team SmackDown Survivor Series main event clocking in six minutes lighter at 33:20. Despite nepotistic motivations for at least 50% of the presentation, the allocation wasn't without merit - the pair had feuded for much of the summer, and Zayn's involvement ultimately brought Daniel Bryan into the angle and eventually back in to the ring in time for the four blowing the whole thing off at WrestleMania 34.