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The WWE website has run a story with 30 superstars of past and present talking about each WrestleMania. It is interesting to see how certain minds percieve things different from everyone else. Don't think of me as cynical, because some of these guys have insights that were never made public before. While most of the comments tend to look back at history positively, there are one or two people who have said some things you wouldn't expect.
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>“Rowdy†Roddy Piper on WrestleMania</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
There has always been controversy over what drew the first WrestleMania. Hulk Hogan will tell you he did. Mr. McMahon will tell you he did. But they’re liars. I did. Let me give you simple facts: Leading into the event, I’d kicked the female vocalist of the year, Cyndi Lauper, in the head. I broke her platinum record over Captain Lou Albano’s head at Madison Square Garden. I chased Dick Clark. I started a riot. I slapped Mr. T and beat him with a belt on ‘Saturday Night Live’. I said one of the lines that got me in the most trouble ever, and it was a dandy. All of this going into WrestleMania. What had Hogan done? What had Mr. T done? What had Mr. McMahon done? Well?
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Hillbilly Jim on WrestleMania 2</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
When you’re grappling in a Battle Royal like that, in a contest with so many guys battling it out in the ring, you have to watch yourself because there is such a high-injury factor in that sort of thing. There’s just a lot of humans and a lot of beef running around. It was really no different at WrestleMania 2, and we had NFL guys in there, too, in Chicago, complicating things. It’s no surprise that Andre won that one. It was just a wild thing.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Ricky “The Dragon†Steamboat on WrestleMania III</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
WWE were talking about 100,000 people being there, and we’re thing, “Are they crazy?â€. If they only get 20,000 people in there, it’ll look like there’d been a bomb scare… But then we’d hear these numbers. There’d been 50,000 tickets sold. Then 70,000. And it all made Randy Savage and myself more excited.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>“Million Dollar Man†Ted DiBiase on WrestleMania IV</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
How many guys do you know who can say they wrestled three matches at WrestleMania? And that’s what I did. I wrestled all day, culminating in the main event against Randy Savage. And I think that match was important in the legacy of the Million Dollar Man… I remember the pressure of that day being pretty substantial. For one thing, it was my first WrestleMania, and I had to worry about the possibility of competing in multiple matches. I didn’t have a lot of time to panic.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Jake “The Snake†Roberts on WrestleMania V</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I would probably say being in the ring with the big man, Andre the Giant, at WrestleMania V is the most memorable moment for me. I mean, what business did I have being in there? That, to me, says more about where my career went than anything else. I never won a bunch of titles, which was OK. I didn’t want to carry them around in my bag. I was already carrying a giant snake! But I would have never, ever, in my wildest dreams have thought that I would’ve ended up in the ring with Andre.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Cody Rhodes on WrestleMania VI</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
My youngest memory? I have two actually. One is of me in the pool when I believe I was four. But the first memory I actually have is when I went to WrestleMania in Toronto at the SkyDome. It’s the only WrestleMania that my father was a part of. I don’t remember much about the event itself but I remember that was the day that he put his hands under my underarms and sat on the mat in the middle of the ring. I remember seeing the blue and yellow WWE logo in the corner on the turnbuckle pad and then he sent me back outside the ring. That was it.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Sergeant Slaughter on WrestleMania VII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Just to be in the main event itself was a big thing. But we had a lot of scary times just getting to WrestleMania, because I was an Iraqi sympathizer at the time. We received death threats.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Ric Flair on WrestleMania VIII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
When I was working with Randy Savage, he was going through a lot personally, so I probably didn’t get his best, but we definitely had a great time.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Shawn Michaels on WrestleMania IX</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
They’re putting a fair amount of trust in you to start off the show with a bang. You don’t get that position because they want the show to start out with a whimper. That’s not how it works. The opening match is a coveted position. I remember at WrestleMania IX being a little disappointed because I felt that I had moved past that point… I was a little unhappy about going on first, but now I see it as a compliment.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Bret “Hitman†Hart on WrestleMania X</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Wrestling Owen in Madison Square Garden, which we had both always wanted to do growing up together, has the most meaning to me. The truth is, I hadn’t wrestled Owen much. So just before WrestleMania, we met at my parents’ house and went down to The Dungeon just like the old days.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Kevin (Diesel) Nash on WrestleMania XI</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I did get to walk out of the ring with Pamela Anderson when she was red hot. Jenny McCarthy was there that night, too. But I was out there with my friend Shawn Michaels. I think these WrestleMania matches have a tendency to be anti-climactic. I really do. I think there’s all this buildup and hype but by the time you get to the ring it’s just like, “Man, I just want to get this over with.â€
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Goldust on WrestleMania XII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Getting stripped down to my bare underwear in the middle of 25,000 screaming fans was my moment. I don’t know of any other ‘Backlot Brawls’, but that match is always brought up to me on Twitter and by my fans in general. They remember that the most, and it was a big moment in my life. I almost ran Roddy Piper over. I mean, he was like a deer in the headlights. I thought he was going to move, and he didn’t. I head his knees buckle on the front of the car. I thought, “Jeez, I just killed Hot Rod.â€
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>“Stone Cold†Steve Austin on WrestleMania 13</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I had thought that match was going to be garbage. I’m a kicker and a stomper – not a submissions wrestler. But it had been such a badass ride, where the emotion and the story of that match grabbed everybody by the heart and the guts, and you understood it, and you believed it 100 percent.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Road Dogg on WrestleMania XIV</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
What do I remember from that match at WrestleMania XIV? Pain! It was a big match that no one had ever seen at WrestleMania and I loved wrestling those guys, because Mick Foley is such a great guy and a tough guy as well. The word I started out with was pain, and I’ll come back to it and close with it, that’s what I remember the most about that match.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>The Rock on WrestleMania XV</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Ironically, WrestleMania was supposed to be the beginning of The Rock-“Stone Cold†Steve Austin rivalry, as far as pay-per-view storylines, television, etc. was concerned. After WrestleMania, things just started to change. The fans were behind me…
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Chris Jericho on WrestleMania 2000</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Originally, there were four guys on the official WrestleMania poster that year: Triple H, Big Show, The Rock and myself. Two months in, they took me off and put Mick Foley on it because he was in the main-event match. But on the Sunset Strip, there was a huge billboard and my face was still on it. It was really cool to be on that level.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>William Regal on WrestleMania X-Seven</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
If you recall, the buildup stemmed from the time Chris Jericho urinated in my tea, which I’ve still not quite gotten over. The first match of the evening is an important slot. There’s pressure, and yet it’s very satisfying knowing that you’re trusted to open the show.â€
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Triple H on WrestleMania X-8</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
In 2002, when I came back after my first quad tear and beat Chris Jericho to become the Undisputed Champion, for me, that was a massive moment. A lot of people would look at it and think that it was overshadowed by The Rock vs. Hollywood Hogan, and I get that. But for me, it wasn’t. Because when I tore that quad, people told me I’d never wrestle again.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Booker T on WrestleMania XIX</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
For me it’s never been about winning or losing in the business, it’s about going out and giving a great performance that those fans can walk away from and have something they could hold on to. A lot of them still hold on to that moment because they are still coming up and saying, “Man, you should have beat Triple H that night.â€
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Molly Holly on WrestleMania XX</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
They told me there wasn’t going to be a Women’s Title match, so I figured I could start slashing people’s tires or think of a way to get on the show. I’m not a Playboy Playmate and I can’t do a triple flip, so I had to come up with something that would make them put me on the show. If it were socially acceptable for someone with my personality to have a shaved head, I totally would’ve left it.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>JBL on WrestleMania 21</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I knew that John Cena was getting hot at the time, and that this match could be the crowning of the guy who was going to be the face of the company. And while I gave that match everything I had, it was pretty special to be part of that moment. I take no credit for Cena’s career; he did that on his own. Also, I had always wanted to headline a WrestleMania and walk in there as champion. I became a main-eventer late in my career, and I think I enjoyed it more than I would have if it had happened sooner. So the timing was right for everything.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Mick Foley on WrestleMania 22</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
My match with Edge was built on the very simple, and very real, premise that I never had a true great WrestleMania moment. I remember I was getting ready for that match – listening to Tori Amos – when one Superstar, who shall remain nameless because it may betray his image – walked into my makeshift dressing room… He admitted to me later that he was a little bit scared, and this is one of the biggest and toughest Superstars of all time. So you can understand that I was really getting in the zone, really intent on having that classic match that night.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>John Cena on WrestleMania 23</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I didn’t necessarily have the idea of breaking through the glass. I wanted to drive the Mustang down the ramp. We consulted the production team and discussed limitations. The car couldn’t be driven down the ramp, so we entered through the glass, which ended up being much better… I came really close to totalling that car. It could have ended up like The Shockmaster’s entrance.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Edge on WrestleMania 24</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Kicking out of the Tombstone (from the Undertaker) was a big moment. I was waiting for that, waiting to hear the reaction from the crowd. And then to hear it when it happened, my ears were smiling.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Randy Orton on WrestleMania XXV</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I think main-eventing The 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania could have been my moment. Undertaker and Shawn Michaels went on a few matches before us and it was their first go at WrestleMania. They stole the show. By the time Triple H and I got out there, the fans were just sitting on their hands. I think we made a mistake or two in the match and the audience didn’t go for it. That sort of sealed the deal. We were fighting uphill the whole time.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Kofi Kingston on WrestleMania XXVI</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Kane had gone crazy and broke the ladder in half during the Money In The Bank Ladder match. I saw two pieces of a ladder right there, so instead of rushing outside and grabbing another, I made stilts out of those two pieces. As the crowd figured out what was going on, you could hear a slow roar coming up as I started climbing. It’s not easy to walk on stilts.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>The Miz on WrestleMania XXVII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I was knocked out during my match. Now that I’ve watched it a few times, I remember bits and pieces of the match. It’s still kind of blurry. I have no idea what happened backstage. I was so worried that I messed up everything. I was miserable that night. I think someone would have said something, but I don’t want that sympathy card.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Daniel Bryan on WrestleMania XXVIII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I would have like to have gotten a better opportunity at WrestleMania. That is when you want to showcase everything you can do and steal the show… it was a blessing and a curse. The blessing of it was that it really engaged the hardcore group of fans, who were really ticked off.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Fandango on WrestleMania 29</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
We went down to Broadway in New York City with about eight to 10 girls and we rehearsed a few hours for a couple of days with a local ballroom dancing company. It was really cool because I got to meet a bunch of chicks. Russian girls are great.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Stephanie McMahon on WrestleMania XXX</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
You’re guaranteed the greatest live-event spectacular in the world. WrestleMania 30 will have something for everyone, commemorating 30 years of epic entertainment. WWE Legends, the best Superstars of today and the brightest young talent of tomorrow will all join forces to create memories that will last a lifetime.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>“Rowdy†Roddy Piper on WrestleMania</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
There has always been controversy over what drew the first WrestleMania. Hulk Hogan will tell you he did. Mr. McMahon will tell you he did. But they’re liars. I did. Let me give you simple facts: Leading into the event, I’d kicked the female vocalist of the year, Cyndi Lauper, in the head. I broke her platinum record over Captain Lou Albano’s head at Madison Square Garden. I chased Dick Clark. I started a riot. I slapped Mr. T and beat him with a belt on ‘Saturday Night Live’. I said one of the lines that got me in the most trouble ever, and it was a dandy. All of this going into WrestleMania. What had Hogan done? What had Mr. T done? What had Mr. McMahon done? Well?
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Hillbilly Jim on WrestleMania 2</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
When you’re grappling in a Battle Royal like that, in a contest with so many guys battling it out in the ring, you have to watch yourself because there is such a high-injury factor in that sort of thing. There’s just a lot of humans and a lot of beef running around. It was really no different at WrestleMania 2, and we had NFL guys in there, too, in Chicago, complicating things. It’s no surprise that Andre won that one. It was just a wild thing.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Ricky “The Dragon†Steamboat on WrestleMania III</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
WWE were talking about 100,000 people being there, and we’re thing, “Are they crazy?â€. If they only get 20,000 people in there, it’ll look like there’d been a bomb scare… But then we’d hear these numbers. There’d been 50,000 tickets sold. Then 70,000. And it all made Randy Savage and myself more excited.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>“Million Dollar Man†Ted DiBiase on WrestleMania IV</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
How many guys do you know who can say they wrestled three matches at WrestleMania? And that’s what I did. I wrestled all day, culminating in the main event against Randy Savage. And I think that match was important in the legacy of the Million Dollar Man… I remember the pressure of that day being pretty substantial. For one thing, it was my first WrestleMania, and I had to worry about the possibility of competing in multiple matches. I didn’t have a lot of time to panic.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Jake “The Snake†Roberts on WrestleMania V</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I would probably say being in the ring with the big man, Andre the Giant, at WrestleMania V is the most memorable moment for me. I mean, what business did I have being in there? That, to me, says more about where my career went than anything else. I never won a bunch of titles, which was OK. I didn’t want to carry them around in my bag. I was already carrying a giant snake! But I would have never, ever, in my wildest dreams have thought that I would’ve ended up in the ring with Andre.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Cody Rhodes on WrestleMania VI</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
My youngest memory? I have two actually. One is of me in the pool when I believe I was four. But the first memory I actually have is when I went to WrestleMania in Toronto at the SkyDome. It’s the only WrestleMania that my father was a part of. I don’t remember much about the event itself but I remember that was the day that he put his hands under my underarms and sat on the mat in the middle of the ring. I remember seeing the blue and yellow WWE logo in the corner on the turnbuckle pad and then he sent me back outside the ring. That was it.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Sergeant Slaughter on WrestleMania VII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Just to be in the main event itself was a big thing. But we had a lot of scary times just getting to WrestleMania, because I was an Iraqi sympathizer at the time. We received death threats.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Ric Flair on WrestleMania VIII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
When I was working with Randy Savage, he was going through a lot personally, so I probably didn’t get his best, but we definitely had a great time.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Shawn Michaels on WrestleMania IX</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
They’re putting a fair amount of trust in you to start off the show with a bang. You don’t get that position because they want the show to start out with a whimper. That’s not how it works. The opening match is a coveted position. I remember at WrestleMania IX being a little disappointed because I felt that I had moved past that point… I was a little unhappy about going on first, but now I see it as a compliment.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Bret “Hitman†Hart on WrestleMania X</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Wrestling Owen in Madison Square Garden, which we had both always wanted to do growing up together, has the most meaning to me. The truth is, I hadn’t wrestled Owen much. So just before WrestleMania, we met at my parents’ house and went down to The Dungeon just like the old days.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Kevin (Diesel) Nash on WrestleMania XI</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I did get to walk out of the ring with Pamela Anderson when she was red hot. Jenny McCarthy was there that night, too. But I was out there with my friend Shawn Michaels. I think these WrestleMania matches have a tendency to be anti-climactic. I really do. I think there’s all this buildup and hype but by the time you get to the ring it’s just like, “Man, I just want to get this over with.â€
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Goldust on WrestleMania XII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Getting stripped down to my bare underwear in the middle of 25,000 screaming fans was my moment. I don’t know of any other ‘Backlot Brawls’, but that match is always brought up to me on Twitter and by my fans in general. They remember that the most, and it was a big moment in my life. I almost ran Roddy Piper over. I mean, he was like a deer in the headlights. I thought he was going to move, and he didn’t. I head his knees buckle on the front of the car. I thought, “Jeez, I just killed Hot Rod.â€
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>“Stone Cold†Steve Austin on WrestleMania 13</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I had thought that match was going to be garbage. I’m a kicker and a stomper – not a submissions wrestler. But it had been such a badass ride, where the emotion and the story of that match grabbed everybody by the heart and the guts, and you understood it, and you believed it 100 percent.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Road Dogg on WrestleMania XIV</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
What do I remember from that match at WrestleMania XIV? Pain! It was a big match that no one had ever seen at WrestleMania and I loved wrestling those guys, because Mick Foley is such a great guy and a tough guy as well. The word I started out with was pain, and I’ll come back to it and close with it, that’s what I remember the most about that match.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>The Rock on WrestleMania XV</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Ironically, WrestleMania was supposed to be the beginning of The Rock-“Stone Cold†Steve Austin rivalry, as far as pay-per-view storylines, television, etc. was concerned. After WrestleMania, things just started to change. The fans were behind me…
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Chris Jericho on WrestleMania 2000</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Originally, there were four guys on the official WrestleMania poster that year: Triple H, Big Show, The Rock and myself. Two months in, they took me off and put Mick Foley on it because he was in the main-event match. But on the Sunset Strip, there was a huge billboard and my face was still on it. It was really cool to be on that level.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>William Regal on WrestleMania X-Seven</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
If you recall, the buildup stemmed from the time Chris Jericho urinated in my tea, which I’ve still not quite gotten over. The first match of the evening is an important slot. There’s pressure, and yet it’s very satisfying knowing that you’re trusted to open the show.â€
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Triple H on WrestleMania X-8</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
In 2002, when I came back after my first quad tear and beat Chris Jericho to become the Undisputed Champion, for me, that was a massive moment. A lot of people would look at it and think that it was overshadowed by The Rock vs. Hollywood Hogan, and I get that. But for me, it wasn’t. Because when I tore that quad, people told me I’d never wrestle again.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Booker T on WrestleMania XIX</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
For me it’s never been about winning or losing in the business, it’s about going out and giving a great performance that those fans can walk away from and have something they could hold on to. A lot of them still hold on to that moment because they are still coming up and saying, “Man, you should have beat Triple H that night.â€
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Molly Holly on WrestleMania XX</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
They told me there wasn’t going to be a Women’s Title match, so I figured I could start slashing people’s tires or think of a way to get on the show. I’m not a Playboy Playmate and I can’t do a triple flip, so I had to come up with something that would make them put me on the show. If it were socially acceptable for someone with my personality to have a shaved head, I totally would’ve left it.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>JBL on WrestleMania 21</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I knew that John Cena was getting hot at the time, and that this match could be the crowning of the guy who was going to be the face of the company. And while I gave that match everything I had, it was pretty special to be part of that moment. I take no credit for Cena’s career; he did that on his own. Also, I had always wanted to headline a WrestleMania and walk in there as champion. I became a main-eventer late in my career, and I think I enjoyed it more than I would have if it had happened sooner. So the timing was right for everything.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Mick Foley on WrestleMania 22</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
My match with Edge was built on the very simple, and very real, premise that I never had a true great WrestleMania moment. I remember I was getting ready for that match – listening to Tori Amos – when one Superstar, who shall remain nameless because it may betray his image – walked into my makeshift dressing room… He admitted to me later that he was a little bit scared, and this is one of the biggest and toughest Superstars of all time. So you can understand that I was really getting in the zone, really intent on having that classic match that night.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>John Cena on WrestleMania 23</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I didn’t necessarily have the idea of breaking through the glass. I wanted to drive the Mustang down the ramp. We consulted the production team and discussed limitations. The car couldn’t be driven down the ramp, so we entered through the glass, which ended up being much better… I came really close to totalling that car. It could have ended up like The Shockmaster’s entrance.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Edge on WrestleMania 24</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Kicking out of the Tombstone (from the Undertaker) was a big moment. I was waiting for that, waiting to hear the reaction from the crowd. And then to hear it when it happened, my ears were smiling.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Randy Orton on WrestleMania XXV</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I think main-eventing The 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania could have been my moment. Undertaker and Shawn Michaels went on a few matches before us and it was their first go at WrestleMania. They stole the show. By the time Triple H and I got out there, the fans were just sitting on their hands. I think we made a mistake or two in the match and the audience didn’t go for it. That sort of sealed the deal. We were fighting uphill the whole time.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Kofi Kingston on WrestleMania XXVI</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
Kane had gone crazy and broke the ladder in half during the Money In The Bank Ladder match. I saw two pieces of a ladder right there, so instead of rushing outside and grabbing another, I made stilts out of those two pieces. As the crowd figured out what was going on, you could hear a slow roar coming up as I started climbing. It’s not easy to walk on stilts.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>The Miz on WrestleMania XXVII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I was knocked out during my match. Now that I’ve watched it a few times, I remember bits and pieces of the match. It’s still kind of blurry. I have no idea what happened backstage. I was so worried that I messed up everything. I was miserable that night. I think someone would have said something, but I don’t want that sympathy card.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Daniel Bryan on WrestleMania XXVIII</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
I would have like to have gotten a better opportunity at WrestleMania. That is when you want to showcase everything you can do and steal the show… it was a blessing and a curse. The blessing of it was that it really engaged the hardcore group of fans, who were really ticked off.
</div>
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Fandango on WrestleMania 29</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
We went down to Broadway in New York City with about eight to 10 girls and we rehearsed a few hours for a couple of days with a local ballroom dancing company. It was really cool because I got to meet a bunch of chicks. Russian girls are great.
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<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Stephanie McMahon on WrestleMania XXX</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">
You’re guaranteed the greatest live-event spectacular in the world. WrestleMania 30 will have something for everyone, commemorating 30 years of epic entertainment. WWE Legends, the best Superstars of today and the brightest young talent of tomorrow will all join forces to create memories that will last a lifetime.
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