10 Mind-Blowing WWE WrestleMania 42 Facts You May Have Missed
7. Women Get Short-Changed
Let’s turn our attention back to match times, because the statistics are really quite fascinating.
The Women’s World Championship match on night one was lampooned because of how quickly it ended, flying by in less than seven minutes, or two-and-a-half plays of Liv Morgan’s auto-tuned pop song “Trouble.”
Indeed, Morgan’s victory over Stephanie Vaquer in 6:51 was the shortest women’s WrestleMania match since the utterly forgettable six-pack challenge for the SmackDown Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 33. That’s a span of more than 25 matches that ran longer.
What makes this stat particularly glaring is that this was built up as a major feud between the Women’s Royal Rumble winner and one of the best women on the roster. They barely had time to tell any kind of story in the ring before the Judgment Day ran down for a series of distractions, leading to Liv capturing the title.
However, in the days since WrestleMania, reports suggest that this match was kept so short due to both women being banged up, and WWE opting to keep things brisk to reduce the risk of either wrestler doing more damage to themselves.