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Sean Ross Stats For WrestleMania 36

– Kabuki Warriors had their first televised tag team title defense of the year this weekend. They’d defended them on some live events.

– This weekend was Drew Gulak’s first WrestleMania match ever. The match was Cesaro’s first singles match ever at WrestleMania.

– Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross are the first two time champions in the history of this iteration of the Women’s Tag Team Titles.

– Elias had his first PPV singles match since losing to Roman Reigns in ten seconds last may. His last before that was Money in the Bank 2018.

– Becky Lynch hit one full year as Raw Women’s Champion this week. She’s the only woman in the modern brand-split era to hold a Raw or Smackdown Women’s title longer than 235 days.

– Becky Lynch’s Raw Women’s Title reign is the longest on Raw or Smackdown since Trish Stratus‘ between 2005 and 2006, in which Stratus was sidelined for five months.

– WrestleMania was Sami Zayn’s first PPV singles match since Bobby Lashley at Money in the Bank 2018.

– WrestleMania 36 was the first in which Seth Rollins competed and didn’t win a match.

– The Undertaker became the first man to main event WrestleMania across four decades. He’s also won across four decades.

– Sunday was Natalya’s first one-on-one match at WrestleMania, as well as Liv Morgan’s.

– AJ Styles and Drew McIntyre were both first-time WrestleMania main eventers.

– For the second straight year, the Universal and WWE Titles changed hands.

– The NXT Women’s Championship was defended at WrestleMania for the first time ever.

– Charlotte Flair has walked in to WrestleMania as Divas Champion, and also competed for the WWE Women’s, Raw Women’s, Smackdown Women’s and NXT Women’s Championships at WrestleMania.

– Goldberg vs. Braun Strowman was the shortest match of Mania 36 at 2:10, while Randy Orton vs. Edge at 36:35 was the longest.

– Edge is 7-0 in Last Man Standing matches, and 4-0 in televised ones.

– Edge has appeared at WrestleMania events across four decades, but hasn’t competed across four decades as he didn’t wrestle at WrestleMania 15.

– Former UFC fighters both lost title matches on each night of WrestleMania. Bobby Lashley, who fought in Strikeforce, also lost.

– WrestleMania dropped three 50+ year olds in Triple H, Shane McMahon and Kurt Angle from last year’s card, but picked up two in Goldberg and The Undertaker who weren’t on last year’s card.

– Drew McIntyre picked up his second WrestleMania win in five matches. His first was in a 12-man tag in 2012.

– Braun Strowman finally won the Universal title in his eighth televised opportunity to win it.

– Sasha Banks is 0-5 at WrestleMania, and has never had a one on one match at the show. She’s competed for a title at all but one of the shows, which was the first WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal

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