10 Things You Only Learn Attending WWE WrestleMania Live

7. When Precisely People Go To The Bathroom

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Before the show, obviously, and here's a disgusting anecdote for you:

I was in the queue for a portable toilet visit before the show. On a WrestleMania Weekend wherein so much money is thrown around, one punter offered to pay $20 just to cut in line.

"It depends," the man in the front of the queue said. "Do you gotta take a piss, or a sh*t?"

"Ah bro, I just gotta take a piss," he said, before taking a five minute piss.

It didn't matter; those portables were already three-day music festival horrific. The facilities inside the MetLife stadium were slightly less offensive, and most took the decision to use them as the...sigh...Women's Tag Team Championship match began.

Your writer was among that number, he's sorry to report, thus living down to the worst stereotype of male wrestling fans by only making the finish. If it makes any female readers out there less unamused, I later learned that my article 'Why WWE's Women Aren't Drawing', an indictment of those fans, was posted to 4Chan's wrestling board. My WhatCulture bio picture was also posted under the title 'Soyboy.png'.

In my defence, I wouldn't have went had, say, Asuka appeared in place of Nia Jax, but the exodus was telling. True women's wrestling is very much on the meritocratic rise, but more people were willing to sit through Triple H laying down for five minutes than 10 minutes of actual action.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!