10 Wrestlers Who Spent The Most Time In The Ring At WWE WrestleMania

7. The Rock: 3 Hours, 21 Seconds, 56 Seconds

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You'll never see his like ever again, because from 1999 on, everything the Rock did at WrestleMania was enormous. The crowd never tired for the Rock. No excuses were made for the subdued reactions that simply never happened.

His first main event, opposite Steve Austin at WrestleMania XV, was the worst of the legendary trilogy, but the crowd still went banana for the entertaining brawl, as they did for WrestleMania 2000's poorly-judged downer of a Four-Way main when it was thought he was taking it home.

His seminal X-Seven headliner - the immortal thumbnail of the Attitude Era - was supercharged with the feeling only Rock could elicit across the entire length of its powerful drama, a strain so potent that it was the most hotly-received disaster of all-time. One could argue that his Icon Vs. Icon clash with Hollywood Hogan was the quintessential WWE match: two super-charismatic muscle giants doing the simple, histrionic things to the maximum reaction, it was perfection.

His inclusion here is as a result of the bloat of his two-year programme with John Cena, but even that was loud if little else.

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