7 Reasons Why I Regret Staying Up To Watch WrestleMania 32

7. WrestleMania Is Unnecessarily Long

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Has any professional wrestling show in history been (or felt, for that matter) this long? I'm not just talking in terms of actual length either. Sure, it is the Show of Shows and the biggest night of the professional wrestling year, but it truly feels like a line has been crossed in terms of how long this goodwill can stretch on a single night?

All WWE special events now come with pre-shows, and even this is extended for WrestleMania. The taster for the event clocks in at two hours, and three matches are featured on the card. This is buffered by interviews, insights, hype-videos and more. I can understand this to a degree, but it also means that by the time the actual show starts the audience are already two hours into it.

Which brings us to WrestleMania itself. Things actually started well this year, the relatively quick pace of the opening bouts meant time wasn't something one became aware of. The ladder match, Y2AJ explosion and Women's bout all felt fresh, and the fact that it was the middle of the night didn't really register.

All of which hit the fan once the cell was lowered over the ring for Undertaker/Shane McMahon. From here on out, the final couple of hours of the show were absolutely painful. Both the Taker/McMahon match and the main event between Roman Reigns and Triple H were painfully slow matches, and the drudgery of sitting through a six hour plus show began to kick in.

When the show went off air with Reigns standing tall, I felt like celebrating myself, taking joy in the fact that it was finally over.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.