10 Unique WWE WrestleMania Statistics

5. WrestleMania 36's World Title Matches Were The Shortest On The Card

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There are a few culprits for super short title matches throughout WrestleMania history, and even less when it comes to the world titles. Sheamus kicking away Daniel Bryan's World Heavyweight Championship in 18 seconds, Hulk Hogan stealing the WWF Title back in 22 seconds, and Kane beating ECW's dead horse in 11 seconds (yes, the ECW Championship was still a World Title at that time if you can believe it). The difference with those however is there were other World title bouts on the card to fill up more time for the biggest prizes in sports entertainment.

WrestleMania 36 breaks that trend by being the only one where both the WWE and Universal title matches were shorter than every other match across the whole of WrestleMania weekend, clocking in at 4 minutes & 20 seconds for the Universal title match, and 6 minutes & 35 seconds for the WWE Championship. Now in fairness, the champions going into the show were part-timers in Brock Lesnar and Goldberg, and they were dropping their belts to Drew McIntyre and Braun Strowman respectively. So epic runtime be damned, lets get the top titles onto full-time talent once again!

WrestleMania 36 was a night full of unique statistics as it's the only show to: have no audience, be pre-recorded, have singles stars battle for the tag straps. Interestingly one accolade it can't claim is being the only Mania to feature cinematic matches, since technically the first one belonged to Roddy Piper vs. Goldust at WrestleMania XII. However, the world championship is WWE's grandest prize, therefore a grand and epic battle for the gold is always a guarantee. So a scenario like this is likely never to happen again.

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