WWE: 6 Ways WrestleMania 30 And Post-Mania Raw Mark A New Era

6. Young Lions Win Big

If you count the Usos defending the Tag Team titles on the pre-show, the average age of all the winners at WrestleMania 30 is 30.67 years old and that's with the old-timers Cena and Lesnar (both 36) dragging the average up a bit. Turn the clock back one year to WrestleMania 29, where four of the winners were north of 40. Quite a turnaround in one year. But it's not just the age of the WrestleMania winners, it's who they are. Aside from Cena and Lesnar (and the argument could be made the Cena should have lost to 26-year-old Bray Wyatt), none of these guys were main event material two years ago. Bryan was just starting to come into his own, and the others either hadn't debuted or hadn't established themselves. And look at who they beat: Triple H, New Age Outlaws, Kane, Undertaker, Big Show (last elimination in the battle royal), Randy Orton and Batista. (Orton's the only one in that group under 40.) Some of the biggest stars of the Attitude Era were bested Sunday night, and some in very convincing fashion. This wasn't a show where the faces go over or the new guys win, this was a show where the next generation handed it to the old guard. However, there is an exception to the rule...
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.