Author: dtm666

WWE Wrestlemania 36
Sunday, April 5th, 2020
Raymond James Stadium
Tampa, FL
Attendance: 283,098

Wrestlemania 36 was the widely-attended event from Tampa. So widely attended that it broke the worldwide record in the history of attendance. And look, I know I said that Wrestlemania X-Seven was the textbook example of a quality Wrestlemania card and I do still consider that the absolute BEST Mania of all time… but goddamn does 36 come close.

In what seems like the opposite of Mania 35 – a show that lasted eleventy-billion hours – Mania 36’s runtime clocked in roughly less than two hours and thirty minutes. Add another two hours for the pre-show where they had their annual battle royales that I don’t care for, but this was a short show with some big matches.

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Date: April 7, 2019
Venue: MetLife Stadium – East Rutherford, New Jersey
Attendance: 68,000–70,000

For what it’s worth, this was a rather significant and newsworthy Wrestlemania.

For the first time in its 34 year history, three of WWE’s top female wrestles would headline a Wrestlemania main event. It was here that saw Kofi Kingston become the first black man to be crowned WWE World Heavyweight Champion… some would argue Rock, but Rock’s only part-Black – he’d more accurately be the first person of color to win said title. It was on this show where Kurt Angle and Dave Bautista would have their final wrestling matches… neither of which were high notes to end a career on, but that’s another story entirely. It was on this show…’s pre-show where Curt Hawkins – man who lost more matches than he’s had matches – would team with partner Zack Ryder to win the RAW Tag-Team Titles. The team they beat for those titles? The Revival… as in FUCK THE REVIVAL. Or FTR for short.

A fairly significant show with some fairly significant stuff… and the only takeaway I got from this show is that it was too goddamned long.

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Date: April 2nd, 2017
Venue: Camping World Stadium – Orlando, Florida
Attendance: 64,900

I forgot about the roller coaster set that they had for this show… to sort of live up to that “Ultimate Thrill Ride” tagline that was used to promote this – the thirty-third edition of the Showcase Of The Immortals, the Show Of Shows, the Grandest Stage of them all… I still maintain that they need to bring back the ring carts. I always thought those brought in a nice bit of class to the proceedings and hey, I’m a sucker for them ring carts.

Sadly, I’m not quite sure ring carts could have saved this show… but does it really need saving? I don’t know about that, but it could’ve used more ring carts. They had money, they can afford them… cheap bastards.

Anyway, on with the show…

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