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10 Longest WWE Pay Per Views Of All Time | partsFUNknown If I could save time in a bottle, the last thing that I'd like to do is spend it watching some of these shows. These are the 10 longest WWE pay per views of all time but make sure you let us know if you've ever been to any of these events in the comments below!  00:00 - Start 01:00 - 10 02:08 - 9 03:15 - 8 04:06 - 7 05:12 - 6 06:13 - 5 07:20 - 4 08:27 - 3 09:33 - 2 10:32 - 1  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:00Some of you may not know this, but one of the biggest metrics in YouTube is watch hours.

00:04The actual time spent watching the content, like this fine YouTube video here.

00:08It's an important metric.

00:10However, WWE's mandate to make pay-per-views longer for the sake of increasing the amount of watch hours spent on the WWE Network

00:16is worthy of a plague being placed upon their houses.

00:19If you ever wondered why WWE pay-per-views started becoming longer and longer and longer to a certain point,

00:24that would be why.

00:25And while we won't be counting them for this list here, most of these shows also feature an additional two hours of bullshit to sift through in the form of their pre-shows.

00:35And when you start getting into the territory north of seven fucking hours, how dare you?

00:42I'm Tempest Hailing from Parts Fun Known, and these are the 10 longest WWE pay-per-views of all time.

00:47But before we get on with our list, make sure, of course, that you like this video, subscribe, and enable notifications to always on

00:52so you never miss a fun bit of wrestling content just like it.

00:54And watch every single list that we have on this channel.

00:57I bet if you put them all together, it probably doesn't equal the length of some of these shows.

01:00Number 10, Royal Rumble 2020, 4 hours, 6 minutes.

01:04If you're gonna have a self-indulgently long pay-per-view, it might as well be a rumble.

01:08With 30 participants entering every 90 seconds to 2 minutes, the match has a minimum length of between 45 minutes to an hour.

01:15And that isn't counting the theatrics of the actual final stretch.

01:18Added the fact that WWE has finally decided to let the ladies have a go, and you're already looking at two hours of wrestling before you even start thinking about your undercard.

01:26Speaking of undercards, if you know you've got two big-ass matches coming up on your pay-per-view,

01:31maybe it's a good idea to keep your other matches as trim as possible, hmm?

01:34Roman Reigns vs. Baron Corbin in a Falls Count Anywhere match was actually a lot better than anyone thought it would be.

01:39But that's no justification for it to be 22 minutes long.

01:43Fiend vs. Bryan and Becky vs. Asuka also settled in for the long haul, but both produced.

01:47And honestly, the show as a whole is really good, which is the best way to keep a long show from feeling long.

01:54The pay-per-view's length didn't seem to touch the crowd's enthusiasm,

01:57as they popped massively to see Drew McIntyre eliminate Brock Lesnar towards the end of the night,

02:01and then again when he eventually won the whole thing.

02:03If only they'd been as loud at that year's Wrestlemania.

02:06Fickle fans.

02:07Number 9. Royal Rumble 2018.

02:104 hours, 9 minutes.

02:11Another example of a bloody great Royal Rumble show,

02:14making what would otherwise be an unacceptable amount of time to watch wrestling in one sitting,

02:19actually pretty enjoyable.

02:20History is made twice in one night,

02:21as WWE not only debuts the first ever Women's Royal Rumble,

02:25but lets it main event the entire show.

02:27There would definitely be better Women's Rumbles down the line,

02:29but this one has a lot going for it.

02:31Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch starting off proceedings,

02:33the inclusion of women's legends like Trish Stratus, Lita, and Molly Holly,

02:37the entrants all putting their differences aside to save the crowd's eardrums from Vicky Guerrero,

02:41and of course the crucial fact that the right woman won.

02:44The men's Rumble though?

02:46Oh boy, I was there, and this is for sure a top three Rumble,

02:49and there's even an argument to be made for putting it at number one.

02:52Heath Slater getting repeatedly brutalized on his way to the ring

02:55before turning the tables on Sheamus, on Sheamus' birthday mind you,

02:58Finn Balor making it to the final four as the match is Iron Man,

03:01the whole final sequence with coronated Golden Boys, Reigns, and Cena

03:04versus New Japan Outsiders, Balor, and Nakamura,

03:06but again, what really elevates this match is the ending,

03:09as WWE beat its self-imposed Royal Rumble cold streak

03:12by making sure the right man took home the win.

03:15Number eight, Money in the Bank 2018,

03:18four hours, 11 minutes.

03:19There are some real peaks and troughs through this event,

03:22which isn't what you want to hear about a pay-per-view

03:24that lasts longer than the amount of sleep

03:25Vince McMahon gets in an average week.

03:27Both the men's and women's Money in the Bank matches are pretty great,

03:30with the men's in particular standing out for helping sow the seeds

03:32of what would later become Kofi Mania.

03:34Alexa Bliss and Braun Strowman made sense as winners at the time,

03:37even if their reigns with the briefcases were a bit sh**,

03:39with Alexa cashing in in the same night,

03:41and Strowman failing his cash-in at that year's Hell in a Cell.

03:44Styles vs Nakamura was also among the better of their WWE match-ups,

03:47even accounting for Nakamura's dick-punching fixation.

03:50The rest of the card is pretty mediocre to bad, though,

03:52with a lot of matches that could probably have been saved

03:55for the following week's Raw or SmackDown.

03:56Daniel Bryan vs Big Cass,

03:58Seth Rollins vs Elias,

04:00Roman Reigns vs Jinder Mahal,

04:02Bobby Lashley vs Sami Zayn.

04:04No, you're gonna watch them all, though.

04:06Number seven, WrestleMania 20,

04:08four hours, 30 minutes.

04:10The oldest event on our list by more than a decade,

04:12WrestleMania 20 just goes to show

04:14that tediously long pay-per-views

04:15are not necessarily a recent phenomenon.

04:17There's so much good stuff here.

04:19Jericho vs Christian,

04:20Eddie vs Angle,

04:22but there's a ton of padding, too.

04:23The Playboy Evening Gown match

04:25is pretty much exactly what you would expect.

04:27The Tag Team Championship match

04:28is a who's who of who cares.

04:30Garrison Cade and Mark Jindrak, anyone?

04:32Remember that team?

04:33Because I don't remember that team.

04:34And Lesnar vs Goldberg,

04:35which could have been,

04:36and was great under different circumstances,

04:38is 14 minutes of two men

04:41who've just handed in their notice

04:43performing a masterclass in not being arsed.

04:46Like a lot of pay-per-views on this list,

04:48the length of this show is counteracted somewhat

04:49by the quality of the main event,

04:51a triple threat between Triple H,

04:53Shawn Michaels, and Chris Benoit,

04:54which is a legit five-star banger.

04:56However, of course,

04:58due to reasons that should be fairly obvious,

05:00the payoff doesn't really stick the same landing

05:02that it did on a modern viewing.

05:03The show closes with a final shot,

05:05which, while uplifting at the time

05:06and more than justified the event's length

05:08for contemporary viewers,

05:09today comes across as equal parts tragic and chilling.

05:12Number six, Royal Rumble 2019,

05:15four hours, 40 minutes.

05:16I'm starting to think that WWE

05:18should just stop putting other matches

05:19on the Royal Rumble card.

05:21Start with one,

05:21let R-Truth do a funny little rap about his own name,

05:24have the other one,

05:25and then get everybody out before the pub's shut.

05:27I'm kidding, mostly.

05:28If there's gonna be a musical performance,

05:29it should be by Jillian Hall.

05:31But this is one of those Royal Rumble pay-per-views

05:33that goes on for so long

05:34that even the good matches feel like filler.

05:37Buddy Matthews, Akira Tozawa, Kalisto,

05:39and Hideo Itami for the Cruiserweight Championship?

05:41Cool!

05:42How long did we pay the babysitter for?

05:43Asuka vs. Becky Lynch?

05:45Finn Balor vs. Brock Lesnar?

05:47My favorites!

05:48Will this be done before I go into work tomorrow?

05:50The Rumbles for this year, however,

05:51do not quite make up for this insane runtime.

05:54The Women's Rumble had yet to hit its stride

05:56outside of the best choice being chosen to win,

05:58and the men's match just...

05:59sort of happened?

06:01Honestly, I remember nothing about this match

06:02outside of Nia Jax being the most bizarre final entrant

06:05of a Royal Rumble ever.

06:07This was the end of a near five-hour pay-per-view.

06:10Maybe those in charge just went as delirious

06:12as we all did, having watched it.

06:13Number 5, Wrestlemania 32.

06:164 hours, 49 minutes.

06:17This may not be the longest pay-per-view on this list

06:19in terms of actual hours and minutes,

06:21but you'll be hard-pressed to find a wrestling show

06:23that feels longer.

06:24There are some good matches here.

06:26The Intercontinental Ladder Match

06:27and the WWE Women's Championship Match

06:29in particular stand out as a cut above the rest.

06:31But there are some baffling decisions on this card, too.

06:35Lesnar vs. Ambrose is a huge letdown,

06:37and for some reason, they have Rock come out

06:39and vamp with the Wyatt family

06:40for, like, a really long time.

06:43Even though the show is already four hours long

06:45at that point.

06:46And look, I know it's Adam's favorite

06:48WrestleMania main event of all time,

06:50but I'm going to have to put my foot down.

06:51Triple H vs. Roman Reigns is painful to watch.

06:55It feels like a mad wrestling scientist

06:57spent his entire life

06:58trying to genetically engineer

06:59the least interesting match ever.

07:01It has everything.

07:02An over-the-hill legend

07:03versus an over-pushed baby face,

07:04an exhausted crowd

07:05who are starting to wonder

07:06if the whole event

07:07is some kind of psychological experiment,

07:09a predictable finish,

07:10and about 15 more minutes

07:11than it needed to be.

07:12Honestly, it's so bad

07:13that after a certain point,

07:15you almost have to appreciate

07:16the sheer balls of WWE

07:18for making you sit through it.

07:19Almost.

07:20Number 4.

07:21The Greatest Royal Rumble.

07:234 hours, 58 minutes.

07:24In the words of Nelson Muntz,

07:26I can think of two things wrong with that title.

07:28WWE's first foray

07:29into the land of massive

07:30human rights violations and honey

07:31was definitely not great,

07:33and it was barely a rumble.

07:35The only things on the line

07:36were an ugly green belt

07:37that looked like it was designed

07:38by and for supervillains,

07:39and a trophy that looked

07:40less structurally sound

07:41than the World Cup Stadium.

07:43Adding insult to injury

07:44was the fact that,

07:45to prove this was indeed

07:46the greatest Royal Rumble ever,

07:47WWE expanded the number of entrants

07:49to 50 instead of the usual 30,

07:51presumably based on the logic that,

07:53as this list is sure to prove,

07:55bigger number equals more good.

07:57Again, lads,

07:58if you're gonna have

07:58an 80-minute long rumble,

08:00maybe don't have

08:01nine other bastard matches.

08:03Did AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura

08:05really need another

08:06underwhelming match

08:07with a pointless ending

08:08in their Best of Who Gives a Sh** series?

08:10Was it absolutely vital

08:11that we see Jeff Hardy

08:12miss Jinder Mahal

08:13with a whisper in the wind

08:14and then have Mahal sell it anyway?

08:16That one actually is quite funny.

08:17Speaking of funny, however,

08:19without this rumble,

08:19we would have never gotten to see

08:21Titus O'Neil trip during his entrance

08:22and slide under the ring,

08:24which in many ways

08:25means this really is

08:26the greatest Royal Rumble.

08:27Number three,

08:28WrestleMania 34,

08:30five hours and three minutes.

08:31The shows just keep getting longer

08:33and the endings

08:33just keep getting more disappointing.

08:35Sometimes it's difficult to tell

08:36after a show of this length

08:38whether a main event

08:38is actually bad

08:39or if it's just sitting

08:40through a five-hour-long pay-per-view

08:42has made you hate

08:42the very concept of wrestling.

08:44Truth be told,

08:45Reigns versus Lesnar

08:46is actually a pretty decent little match

08:47if you love a million finishers

08:48being hit and being kicked out of

08:50in front of a crowd

08:51that absolutely doesn't want to see it.

08:52Reigns even gets his head

08:53busted open at one point,

08:54which as a wrestling fan in 2018

08:56is the only thing

08:57you wanted to see in the world.

08:58Styles versus Nakamura

08:59was pretty disappointing

09:00given their potential,

09:01but the match might have been

09:02received a lot better

09:03if WWE hadn't insisted

09:04on giving every wrestler

09:05on their roster

09:06that sweet, sweet Mania payday.

09:08There's some other great stuff

09:09on here too.

09:10Charlotte versus Asuka is fun,

09:11Ronda and Kurt Angle

09:12versus The Authority

09:13is way better than anyone

09:14could have expected

09:15from Rousey's in-ring debut

09:16and Braun Strowman and Nicholas

09:18put on a five-star masterclass

09:19against the bar.

09:20But,

09:21and I cannot stress this enough,

09:22this show is over five hours long

09:26and that doesn't include the pre-show.

09:29If you were watching this in the UK,

09:30that means you didn't go to bed

09:32until 6 a.m.

09:33Number two,

09:34WrestleMania 33,

09:35five hours and five minutes.

09:37No wonder Undertaker

09:38suffered his second ever

09:39WrestleMania defeat

09:40at WrestleMania 33.

09:41He was probably knackered

09:42after standing around

09:43for five hours

09:44waiting for his match to start.

09:45Undertaker's getting up there, man.

09:46He can't be staying up

09:47murdering people

09:48until 1 a.m. anymore.

09:49And murder people

09:50he certainly did not,

09:51putting on the type of performance

09:52that only serves to remind you

09:53that the people you grew up admiring

09:55are also subject

09:56to the laws of entropy.

09:57It probably wouldn't have been too bad

09:58if Taker had kept his promise

10:00and stayed retired after the match,

10:01but John Cena

10:02and the Saudi royal family

10:03had other ideas,

10:04so here we are.

10:05Sadman Crothers

10:06wasn't the only one

10:06whose match suffered

10:07from being put on

10:08past his bedtime,

10:09Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt

10:10had a weird,

10:10spooky bollocks match

10:11that looked like it was produced

10:12by Spirit Halloween,

10:13and John Cena

10:14no bullsh**

10:15proposed to Nikki Bella,

10:16which doesn't feel quite like

10:18the WrestleMania moment

10:19it was supposed to be

10:20considering how their

10:20relationship worked out.

10:21There are some great moments here

10:23like Shane McMahon

10:23carrying AJ Styles

10:24to Match of the Night

10:25and the Hardys making

10:26one of the greatest returns

10:27in WWE history,

10:29but this era of WrestleMania

10:30just cannot be watched

10:31back in one sitting.

10:32And number one,

10:34WrestleMania 35,

10:365 hours and 20 minutes.

10:38Humans weren't built

10:39to do anything

10:40for an uninterrupted

10:415 hours and 20 minutes straight,

10:43except sleep

10:44and argue with strangers

10:45on the internet.

10:46Make sure to leave

10:46a comment below.

10:47If you watched Infinity War

10:48and Endgame back-to-back,

10:50it would only take

10:5110 minutes longer

10:53than it would take

10:53to watch WrestleMania 35,

10:55and that's with credits.

10:57And not including

10:58the pre-show.

10:59The worst thing

10:59about this show

11:00is that it actually

11:01isn't that bad.

11:03It just takes

11:04f***ing forever.

11:05Sometimes I wake up

11:06in the middle of the night

11:07and I worry

11:07that it's still going on.

11:08Sure, there are

11:09some stinkers on this show,

11:10like Samoa Joe

11:11defending his United States

11:12title against Rey Mysterio

11:13in a one-minute match,

11:14or Kurt Angle

11:15being retired by...

11:16Sorry, it says here

11:17Baron Corbin,

11:18but surely that can't be right.

11:20Either way,

11:21Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar

11:22is a hot opener

11:23where the right man won,

11:24and Kofi vs. Bryan

11:25is a great match

11:26that leads to an all-time

11:27great WrestleMania moment

11:28in the heartwarming

11:29climax to Kofi Mania.

11:30The women's triple threat

11:31under-delivers a little,

11:32and the ending

11:33is a bit of a mess,

11:34but what really lets it down

11:35is that it's being performed

11:36in front of an audience

11:37that's genuinely begun

11:39to wonder

11:39if they'll have to start

11:40getting their mail

11:41delivered to the arena.

11:42Historic,

11:43glass-shattering main event,

11:44is it, ladies?

11:45That sounds nice,

11:46but a couple of quick questions

11:47before we start.

11:48Have I died,

11:49and is this purgatory?

11:50And that's our list.

11:51Which wrestling event

11:52did you feel like

11:52was going on forever?

11:53Make sure to let us know

11:54in the comments below,

11:55and make sure to like this video,

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12:01jam that jam.

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