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

4. Randy Orton: 4 Hours, 17 Minutes, 3 Seconds

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When people praise Randy Orton's career, they often do so to put over his longevity, his ability to stay on top for years and years and years.

Why?

Longevity is f*cking boring. It's obviously impressive, purely from a physical standpoint if nothing else, but that's because there is little else. There's no impressive legacy of which to speak. In an indictment of Orton's run, and indeed the monotony of modern WWE at large, Orton is worse at 'Mania than he is everywhere else - and this is a man who has built a main event career on a million methodical ***1/4 matches. The consistency of gravy is to be praised, not the consistency of a friggin' pro wrestler.

He is not consistent at WrestleMania.

He has participated in several disasters, in fact. The terminable heat-free bore with Triple H at 'Mania 25. The goofy projections at 'Mania 33, so scary that...Orton looked at them and RKO'd Bray Wyatt in under 10 seconds. The unending po-faced walk-and-brawl at 'Mania 36.

Beyond that, his record is merely boring. His matches with Kane, Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, Jr, and AJ Styles were all fairly drab.

He has worked some very good to great matches - the impressive counter-driven Streak match, the beautiful suspense of Daniel Bryan's 'Bourbon Street Miracle' - but that's far less than the bare minimum for a supposed all-timer.

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