{"id":11865,"date":"2019-03-31T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T19:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/?p=11865"},"modified":"2019-03-31T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:24:10","slug":"time-is-money-wrestlemanias-projected-run-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/31\/time-is-money-wrestlemanias-projected-run-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Is Money &#8211; Wrestlemania&#8217;s Projected Run Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Time is Money: Looking at WrestleMania\u2019s Projected Run time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock for\nthe past couple of weeks, you\u2019ve probably seen at least one or two articles\nfloating around about the potential length of this year\u2019s WrestleMania. If by\nsome miracle you haven\u2019t seen anything about it, let me catch you up.\nBasically, WrestleMania 35 is expected to have a 17 match card, with a two-hour\npreshow and an estimated eight-hour runtime. This has caused a bit of a stir in\nthe wrestling community as some people are annoyed at the idea of such a long\npay-per-view and others are happy (or at the very least, accepting). I wanted\nto delve into the reasons set forth by both camps so let\u2019s discuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My Twitter and Intagram feeds are pretty\nsplit down the middle when it comes to projected runtime so we\u2019ll start with\nthose that say it\u2019s too long. I understand the sentiment. Eight hours of\nanything can easily be too much. Add the fact that those attending live will be\nin their stadium seats for the same amount of time as an average workday and I\ncan see why some fans might be hostile to such a long runtime. Another thing to\nthink about is time zones. I live in the eastern time zone, which is pretty\nmuch what everything in WWE is set by since it\u2019s headquartered in Connecticut.\nLast year\u2019s WrestleMania main card started at 7pm and ran until around 12:30am.\nIt was a tad tough for me, but I know my fellow fans in the UK and other\ncountries were essentially awake all night. In that respect, I can see why an\neight-hour show would rub them the wrong way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Match quantity and quality have also been\ndiscussed. Seventeen matches is a lot to plan for and that means that some of\nthe matches will inevitably suffer with rushed endings, weird booking, or a\ndrained crowd. We saw that last year with the lackluster United States\nChampionship fatal four-way and Braun Strowman\u2019s tag team victory with a\nten-year-old. When you\u2019re trying to fit everyone and every title on the show,\nsomething is going to give. And on the other hand, some matches drag on for far\ntoo long, either killing the story or sapping too much energy from the live\ncrowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s move to the happy\/accepting crowd. A\nlot of these people are either attending live or simply don\u2019t mind making their\nown plans to watch the show. WWE events, especially the Big Four pay-per-views,\nare quite expensive. When you take tickets, access\/meet and greet passes,\ntravel, accommodations, food, and merchandise, you\u2019re racking up quite a tab. For\nthe people making the journey to WrestleMania, the long runtime could arguably\nbe seen as justification for the money spent. After all, I know I would be\nupset if I spent hundreds, or more, of dollars on a two-hour event. There has\nto be some sort of return on the investment and this long runtime is just part\nof the experience of going to WrestleMania. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I mentioned the number of matches\nbefore, it can be brought up again. Though some matches might end up being\nshorter or not quite getting the payoff we\u2019d like, there\u2019s something to be said\nfor getting more matches and more superstars on the card. For some fans, this\nis one of the only events they watch so it makes sense to put a lot of star\npower on the show. Sometimes there are feuds where it would be a missed\nopportunity to not have them duke it out at Mania. Plus, as several people have\npointed out, no one is exactly forcing anyone to watch the event in its\nentirety in one sitting. If you have access to the Network, or some other way\nto watch, then you\u2019re free to tune in and out however you want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the day, WrestleMania is\ngoing to run for as long as Vince McMahon wants it to and there\u2019s really\nnothing we can do about it. It\u2019s up to us as fans to decide whether or not we\nwant to stay up and commit to all eight hours or if we want to catch up on it\nat a later date. So let\u2019s all stop attacking each other and the promotion and\nenjoy WrestleMania!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Wynter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time is Money: Looking at WrestleMania\u2019s Projected Run time Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you\u2019ve probably seen at least one or two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":11805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,2,960,185],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-11865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-editorials","category-featured","category-wrestlemania-week","category-wwe","tag-wrestlemania"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jnWd-35n","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mania-logo.jpg?fit=620%2C413&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11866,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions\/11866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}