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10 Things Nobody Has Told You About WrestleMania - The Anti-Mr. WrestleMania! 50/50! The Streak Ended As It Should Have! It's NOT The Most Important Event Of The Year?!

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Shawn Michaels is Mr. WrestleMania. Who isn't...? Andy Murray presents 10 Things Nobody Has Told You About WrestleMania...


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0:00.0

As Nigel opened his Amazon parcel, it was in love at first sight, sleek design and effortless cornering.

0:07.0

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0:15.0

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0:21.0

A WrestleMania 39 Cody Rhodes may have failed to defrown Roman Reigns inexplicably, but he did succeed in breaking an 18-year WWE cycle.

0:31.0

I'm Andy from What Culture Wrestling and here are 10 things nobody has told you about WWE WrestleMania.

0:38.0

Number 10 Cody Rhodes, like stained, breaks the cycle.

0:42.0

The era of WrestleMania being heavily reliant on part-timers and legends is over.

0:48.0

Yes, John Cena and Brock Lesnar both wrestled this year, but they were on the undercard and not in a position where they were the focus of the emphasis of the entire show.

0:57.0

This hasn't been the case for years and years.

1:00.0

With an impressive diplomacy, Cody Rhodes stated earlier in the year that the rock's presence wasn't needed at WrestleMania 39,

1:07.0

because WWE's in-house stars and stories were enough.

1:11.0

And ultimately, he was proven correct.

1:13.0

The selling point for Mania this year wasn't Steve Austin Brawling or Vince McMahon attempting to brawl, but the stars of today it was about the bloodline.

1:21.0

It was about Cody Rhodes, it was about Sammy and Kevin Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, anyone you can name, and they all made for the most compelling and forward-thinking build since WrestleMania 21.

1:32.0

Number 9, there are shockingly few great openers.

1:35.0

The WrestleMania opener is something of a hallowed spot, but when you go through the annals of history and really add things up,

1:42.0

there have been as many dodgy Mania openers as dynamite ones.

1:46.0

Really, it wasn't until WrestleMania 7 and the rockers versus Haku and the barbarian that we got a truly blowaway Mania opener.

1:54.0

Obviously, Brett vs. Owen at Mania 10 is one of the greatest WWE matches of all time, but beyond that, 90s openers in general were kind of crap.

2:04.0

By the time we got to WrestleMania 21, it started to feel like a curse when on that night, Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero was a clunky disapointment, and yes, we have had a handful of great openers since then, but even a WrestleMania 38.

2:19.0

That fell victim to an unfortunate injury suffered by Rick Boog's hence the curse.

2:25.0

Oh, aside from Brett vs. Owen or Daniel Bryan vs. Triple H and a handful of others, the hallowed WrestleMania opener?

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