9 Most Obscure WWE WrestleMania Records You Need To Know
8. Most Main Event Losses
While winning a world title is often viewed as the pinnacle of achievement for a wrestler’s career, main-eventing a WrestleMania has become a significant accomplishment and validation of a superstar’s career (just ask CM Punk if closing out a Mania is important to him).
The truth is that not just anyone can wrestle the final match at a WrestleMania – the club of wrestlers who actually have competed in the main event is quite small, with a decent group of repeat offenders.
For a handful, the main event hasn’t been too kind to them. Two men have lost three main events: Roman Reigns (WMs 31, 34 and 40) and Brock Lesnar (WMs 31, 36 and 38).
However, three men have lost four WrestleMania main events: Shawn Michaels, Triple H and The Rock. Michaels lost at WM 14 (to Steve Austin), WM 20 (to Chris Benoit), WM 22 (John Cena) and WM 26 (Undertaker). Triple H fell at WrestleMania 20 (Benoit), WM 21 (Batista), WM 22 (Cena) and WM 32 (Reigns). And The Rock lost three consecutive WrestleMania main events (WM 15 (Austin), WM 2000 (Triple H) and WM X-Seven (Austin) ). He would then lose to Cena at WrestleMania 29.
7. Biggest Gap Between WrestleMania Matches
Being the biggest showcase WWE has for its product each year, WrestleMania has become the site of many comeback or “one night only” matches, with wrestlers returning to action after years away from the ring – or at least away from WWE.
The result is wrestlers who have gone more than a decade without competing at WrestleMania, only to make their triumphant return. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin achieved this at WrestleMania 38, battling Kevin Owens in his first match since WrestleMania 19, a 19-year gap between Mania matches.
But Austin is not the record holder. The record for largest gap between WrestleMania matches belongs to Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, who wrestled at each of the first four Manias, then did not appear in the ring again until he joined “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka to take on Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 25, a 21-year gap between Mania matches.
To break this record this year, you would need someone who hasn’t wrestled at Mania since at least WrestleMania 19 (such as Hulk Hogan, Diamond Dallas Page, Jazz, Raven or Albert) to compete in Las Vegas. That’s not to say this record won’t ever be broken, but it would involve digging deep into the vault.