WWE WrestleMania Interesting Facts And Stats: New Undefeated Streak, Youngest Main Eventers, More
Ahead of this year's Royal Rumble event, we provided you with a ton of stats and facts about the event. We're back for WrestleMania with a host of new doses of history.
Below are dozens of stats and facts on WrestleMania:
The Streak
* The Undertaker holds the record for most consecutive WrestleMania match appearances, with 14. That will extend to 15 this year.
* The Undertaker has defeated all four members of Evolution (Triple H, Ric Flair, Batista, Randy Orton) at WrestleMania.
* 20 of Undertaker's 22 WrestleMania matches were against eventual world champions, Hall of Famers, or WrestleMania headliners.
* The Undertaker has never successfully defended a title at WrestleMania. Both of his title wins were as a challenger.
Yokozuna
* Aside from the Hardcore title, Yokozuna is the only wrestler to win and lose the same title at WrestleMania (WrestleMania 9).
* Yokozuna is the only wrestler to win a world title and a tag team title at WrestleMania.
* Yokozuna was in four WWF title matches over the course of WrestleMania 9 & 10.
* The shortest WrestleMania main event was Hulk Hogan vs. Yokozuna at WrestleMania 9.
Win- Loss Records
* Tito Santana had 7 straight WrestleMania losses.
* Rob Van Dam, Road Warriors, Sable and Ax are all unbeaten at WrestleMania.
* The Miz has never been pinned or submitted at WrestleMania.
* Other impressive WrestleMania records include Big Bossman (5-1), Hulk Hogan (8-3-1), Owen Hart (5-2-1), and Stone Cold Steve Austin (5-2).
* Ax/Smash as a team are 3-0 at Wrestlemania. Without Ax, Demolition Members are 0-6 at Wrestlemania.
* LOD and Ax & Smash are the most successful Wrestlemania teams, both at 3-0.
* Jeff Hardy is 0-5 at WrestleMania. Goldust is 0-6.
* Virgil, Terry Funk, Shane McMahon, Mr T. are all 2-0 at WrestleMania.
John Cena
* John Cena has competed for a championship or went on last at every WrestleMania in which he has performed, except for 2014.
* John Cena has won 4 world titles at WrestleMania, more than anyone else.
* WrestleMania 30 was the first not headlined by John Cena, Triple H or Undertaker since WrestleMania 19.
Young Guns
* King Kong Bundy (28) was the only person under 30 to headline WrestleMania until 1993.
* Yokozuna (26-27), King Kong Bundy (28), Shawn Michaels (29), The Rock (26-28), Big Show (28), Brock Lesnar (25), John Cena (28-29), Randy Orton (29) would all go on to headline WrestleMania under 30 years old.
* Roman Reigns, 29, will be the first man under 30 to headline WrestleMania since Randy Orton.
Championship History
* Over the course of 9 WrestleMania events from 2003-2011, the Intercontinental Title was only defended once, and only for 21 seconds.
* The World Heavyweight title changed hands at WrestleMania or within 2 weeks of WrestleMania every year from 2004-2013.
* Rey Mysterio competed for the World Heavyweight Title, Cruiserweight Title, and the Intercontinental Title at WrestleMania. He also went into WrestleMania 21 as a tag team champion.
* The Miz has competed for the WWE Title, Intercontinental Title, Tag Team Title, and the Andre The Giant Memorial trophy at WrestleMania. He also competed in a match to determine WWE's permanent GM.
* Five Intercontinental champions have retained their title while losing matches at WrestleMania.
* Every 10th WrestleMania has featured two title challengers. Batista and Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 30, Chris Benoit and Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 20, and Lex Luger and Bret Hart at WrestleMania 10 .
* The WWE Divas Title went undefended at WrestleMania between WrestleMania 24-29.
The Kliq
* Razor Ramon was featured on the WrestleMania 12 poster, although he did not have a match on the card. He was slated to face Goldust, but was pulled from the show and replaced with Roddy Piper.
* A member of DX/The Kliq (More specifically Shawn Michaels or HHH) has wrestled at every WrestleMania since 1989.
* Diesel was the only WWE Champion in the 1990's to show up and leave with the title.
Specialty Matches
* The Intercontinental Title Ladder match will be the tenth ladder match in WrestleMania history
* WrestleMania 21 had no tag team matches, and WrestleMania 2000 had no one-on-one male singles matches.
* Cesaro, Yoshi Tatsu, Santino Marella, Kane, Viscera, Great Khali, Booker T, Iron Sheik, Andre The Giant, Bad News Brown, D'Lo Brown and Test have all won battle royal matches at WrestleMania.
Celebrities, Retirements and Departures
* The Rock (2013) Maria Menunous (2012), Edge, Snooki (2011), Shawn Michaels, Mr. McMahon (2010), Roddy Piper, Jimmy Snuka (2009), Floyd Mayweather (2008), all wrestled in the last PPV of their wrestling careers at WrestleMania, as of this writing.
* Only three performers on the WrestleMania 29 card haven't appeared for WWE in 2015.
* Snooki, Mayweather, Lawrence Taylor, Akebono, Butterbean, Maria Menunous, and Mr. T- Celebrities and Athletes are 8-0 in Wrestlemania non-battle royal matches. None would ever wrestle in the WWE again.
* Pete Rose has appeared for WWE more times than he has in an official WWE capacity at WrestleMania in the past 25 years than he has for MLB.
Miscellaneous
* DDP and CM Punk both served as extras for WrestleMania entrances prior to their WWE careers. Current NXT stars Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Alexa Bliss were also entrance extras.
* Daniel Bryan in 2014 had more ring time at any one WrestleMania since Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart in 1996.
* Rikishi (Rikishi, The Sultan, Fatu) appeared at WrestleMania under three personas. Charles Wright (Kama, Papa Shango, The Godfather, The Goodfather), appeared under four.
* Bam Bam Bigelow was the only man who held ECW's incarnation of the ECW title who main evented a Wrestlemania.
* Before his 2011 World Heavyweight Title Match, Alberto Del Rio had gone winless in his previous 5 TV matches.
* Stone Cold Steve Austin has served as a special guest referee at three WrestleMania events since retiring.
* There have been three hair vs. hair matches at WrestleMania. Adrian Adonis vs. Roddy Piper (WrestleMania 3), Victoria vs. Molly Holly (WrestleMania 20), and Umaga vs. Bobby Lashley (WrestleMania 23)
* There have been only 17 matches to end in submission at the first 30 WrestleMania events.