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3. WrestleMania Run-Time Causes Chaos
WrestleMania 35 was a long show.
Too long, truth be told, and the ramifications went further than Becky Lynch having to wait for the early hours of Monday morning to even walk out to the ring let alone become the Raw and SmackDown Women's Champion in the night's historic main event.
At 5:50 (discounting the two hour pre-show), WWE pushed things too far for fans to be fully up for the headliner, and too late for local transport to get them home. Thousands were left stranded outside of MetLife Stadium as New Jersey transit shut up shop for the night and Ubers and taxis collapsed under the pressure of the numbers and over-charging.
It was p*ssing down with rain too, which didn't help. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy was none too pleased with WWE blaming the local infrastructure too, noting that WWE had mislead his office about timings. As he put it;
“At the end of the day, if folks are frustrated, they ought to be. I would have been crazed. It’s completely and utterly ‘dog-ate-my-homework’ unacceptable. We’re fixing it. We’re gonna learn from this. I’ll be damned if it happens again.”
The company are not set to return to the venue for at least the next two years. It could be longer if Murphy gets his way.