Evil Uno Discusses Putting Longest Match Ever Together, ‘It Was A Logistical Nightmare, But I’m Glad We Did It’
On August 11-12, Evil Uno and Mystery Wrestling made history by holding the longest match ever. The match lasted 21 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds and aired live on Twitch.
The bout was put together to raise money for Canadian Cancer Society.
Speaking to Fightful’s Joel Pearl, Uno discussed putting the match together.
“No, I thought I would,” Uno said when asked if he felt good now that things were over. “I thought by now, I’ve had four nights of sleep, I would feel good. I don’t. Truthfully, for as bad as it is for me, I think it’s probably far worse for the men and the women who wrestled the full 22 hours. I only did an hour of wrestling and I sat on a chair most of it. But even then, if you get the chance to watch it on YouTube, you can watch us all be delirious between like 2 a.m. and 9 a.m. It’s a feat to see for sure.
“So I know every year we do a charity stream and typically I’ll do like a 12 hour marathon on Twitch. Most years what we’ve done is I’ve brought in guests from all over the world of wrestling, from AEW, Impact, so on and so forth, a lot of like influencers and so on. So I knew I was at least gonna commit 12 hours to it and then on a completely different conversation unrelated to it, somebody had asked me, ‘I wonder what the longest match in the world is.’ When I Googled it, it said it was under 22 hours and unfortunately, this was like three weeks before we did the event. I went, ‘F it, we’re doing it. We’re gonna do 24 hours, I’m committing to it.’ Then I asked all of our local wrestlers who would be willing to do it and practically everyone did. The day we announced that we were doing it, was the day I thought of it. So, it was very poorly planned, but that is the Mystery Wrestling way, so.
“So we knew we were gonna raise a decent amount of money just with the guests we were gonna have. If we’re basing it on previous years, we knew we would do well. My main concern is how are we going to keep this interesting for 24 hours and how are we going to make sure that, while we are aiming for 22 hours+, how am I going to make sure that no one gets hurt? That was definitely a logistical nightmare. I pressured my friends to do this match, but I thought like, ‘Oh, we’ll do eight on each side. It’ll give plenty people time to rest.’
“What I didn’t anticipate was everyone is going to try to rest between 1 a.m. and 9 a.m. So at a certain period of time, I went to the back to eat food, because I hadn’t had any food in 10 hours and I realized everyone was asleep on one side of the team, except for one guy, and he had been in there for several hours. So on the fly, we added people in. Surprisingly, some people had called in, they were around town
and like, ‘Hey, I would love to join in.’ So we just added people to it. I would say it felt fine for the first six hours. I felt like, ‘Oh, we’ve got this,’ and then the next eight felt like, ‘This is a mistake. We’ll never do this again. What are we doing? This is not even wrestling,’ and then the last two felt good again. So logistical nightmare for sure, but I’m glad we did it. I do not think I’ll ever do that again though.”
Guinness World Records previously recognized a 2021 event from Ehime Pro Wrestling (EPW) as the recordholder for longest wrestling match, clocking in at 21 hours, 44 minutes and 34 seconds. Evil Uno said their match won’t be recognized by the world record organization, claiming that Guinness asked for a minimum of $16,000 to make it official.
Fans can watch the full interview with Evil Uno in the video below.
