I guess so but I'm hoping as the years go by, people eventually realize it's too hard to sit through both nights.
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GKJ
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I think the last few years of the one night shows were 6 hours including pre-show. The 2 night shows were 5 hours each, so 10 total.
They don't need to be doing 2 hour pre-shows. It was fine when it was a 1 hour pre-show and 4 hour main card. It's not like the roster is deeper to warrant the extra time.
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They spend most of the kickoff show time hyping up the main show matches and haven't done matches on the kick off show lately. During Mania weekend they should do one about 30 minutes before the main show starts because that's when there are more fans present. I remember one year when they had multiple matches and during the first match not many people had arrived at the venue yet.
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The one night shows the last few years were absolutely exhausting and made for poorly paced cards.
As long as they are dead set on getting everyone on the Mania card, 2 nights make more sense.
As long as they are dead set on getting everyone on the Mania card, 2 nights make more sense.
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God damn. And there was a lot of filler. The 2 hour pre-shows were mostly video recaps and the panel discussion.
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That one had 4 ten+ minute matches including both mens and womens battle royals
GKJ
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17 matches. I was there. And in the main event we couldn't even get a real finish.
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That's TV though. But even so, most pre-show matches aren't Wrestlemania worthy. You could do a 4-5 hour one night show, including pre-show and fit everything you need.
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It was, I felt like I should have taken a vacation day the next day after watching that one
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Why I don't get the 2 night complaints. It is wat better then those 6 hour 17 match cards.
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For the other 200 PPV's the WWE has a year, totally.
This is Wrestlemania though. Once a year. Should be two nights, 6 hours.
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Bah, the two-night WMs just show how watered down the WWE product is now.
You have to be an absolute die-hard WWE fan to justify purchasing WM for both Saturday and Sunday on the same weekend.
With the exception of WM 20, WM 1 through 31 were all under 4 hours (approximately). During the mid 90s, many were under the 3 hour mark.
The run-time really shot up for WM 32, almost cracking 5 hours. WMs 33 and 34 did crack 5 hours. Then 35 nearly 5 hours 30 mins.
How did they go from needing less than 4 hours, to suddenly needing over 5 hours, to now with two nights it was almost 8 combined hours last year.
None of these numbers account for any sort of pre-show.
They've effectively doubled the run-time since WM 31.
You have to be an absolute die-hard WWE fan to justify purchasing WM for both Saturday and Sunday on the same weekend.
With the exception of WM 20, WM 1 through 31 were all under 4 hours (approximately). During the mid 90s, many were under the 3 hour mark.
The run-time really shot up for WM 32, almost cracking 5 hours. WMs 33 and 34 did crack 5 hours. Then 35 nearly 5 hours 30 mins.
How did they go from needing less than 4 hours, to suddenly needing over 5 hours, to now with two nights it was almost 8 combined hours last year.
None of these numbers account for any sort of pre-show.
They've effectively doubled the run-time since WM 31.
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