WWE WrestleMania 34: Who is the Real Mr. WrestleMania?
By Bryan Heaton
Main Events – Triple H
Sure, overall card placement is nice to look at a “big picture” view of a superstar’s WrestleMania career. But when it comes down to it, tickets are sold on the main event. And despite some of the nonsense about shows having a double or triple main event, it’s the final match of the evening that is the real main event. It’s the difference between being an MVP finalist, and the MVP itself.
To date, there have been 33 WrestleMania main events. Only one was a tag team match, two started out as triple threat matches, and one was a fatal four way. Seth Rollins’s cash-in made another match a triple threat. That makes 73 main event spots over the past three and a half decades. Out of over 300 superstars competing, that’s a pretty select group.
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So if you can get yourself into two different main event matches, it’s pretty impressive. Out of the 53 superstars who have appeared on five or more WrestleManias, 24 have appeared in at least one main event. 13 have appeared in two or more.
The cream of the crop, though, are the five superstars with five or more main events apiece. With seven each are Hulk Hogan and Triple H. And with five are The Rock, John Cena, and Shawn Michaels.
Again, no real surprises there, except for maybe Triple H. Hogan put WrestleMania on the map in the 1980s, The Rock was a huge box office draw, and John Cena was the face of WWE for seemingly forever. Michaels, though, went from being a card opener to main event by his eighth WrestleMania, but made his mark after his 2002 comeback with three main events in the second half of his career.
Undertaker has been in the main event itself four times, including last year in what was likely his final match. But still, Triple H being in seven main events is kind of mind blowing – and he’ll take the lead spot if the mixed tag match closes WrestleMania 34 (a distinct possibility).