Sports fans love their statistics, whether it’s tracking win-loss records, offensive productivity, how specific athletes perform against specific other, or any other number of metrics.

On one hand, it is a little absurd to track statistics for professional wrestling, an endeavor with predetermined outcomes. At the end of the day, the industry is equally if not more about storytelling than actual sport. On the other hand, wrestling has become more and more inclined to share numbers as time has gone on and the public has grown more accustomed to processing them. Whether it was Goldberg’s undefeated streak in WCW or the fact that The Undertaker didn’t lose at WrestleMania for over two decades, stars have captured the imagination of wrestling fans. It has even become a tradition for WWE to actively promote the Royal Rumble each year with a video highlighting noteworthy facts and figures.

In a worked sport, it’s understandable that some oddball statistics would emerge. Some are sheer happenstance or indicative of changes in booking ideas. Others, however, undermine the logic of wrestling stories on a broader scale. In short, they simply do not make sense.

This article takes a look at twenty different individual statistics for WWE Superstars past and present that don’t quite add up for what we would expect, or could readily make sense of. While some are relatively well known among serious fans, others might surprise you as WWE has gone out of its way not to draw attention to these anomalies or inconsistencies in performers’ careers.

20 Brock Lesnar: Ended The Streak, But Only Has A 3-3 Record At WrestleMania

Brock Lesnar is a dominant force on the WWE landscape whose real life credentials in MMA and amateur wrestling, in addition to his obvious power, athleticism, and tremendous look make him a huge deal. For all of his championships and big matches, though, nothing did more to cement his legacy than beating The Undertaker to end his WrestleMania undefeated streak.

The irony of Lesnar picking up this specific win? Outside that match, he actually only has a .500 record at WrestleMania, having lost to Goldberg and Triple H, besides dropping his WWE Championship to Seth Rollins via Money in the Bank cash-in. That’s three losses stacked up against his three wins over Kurt Angle, Goldberg, and Roman Reigns. To be fair, top stars occupy the wins and losses columns, but the numbers nonetheless paint a different story than you might expect about Lesnar’s ‘Mania legacy.

19 Diamond Dallas Page: Only Won One Match In His Career On Raw

Diamond Dallas Page is a wrestling legend, but built his legacy primarily in WCW where he rose from the bottom of the card all the way to main event status as an organically over, homegrown guy. He was one of the few top tier guys to jump immediately to WWE after they bought out WCW, and didn’t exactly prosper in his one year full time.

Page is widely remembered to have been dominated by The Undertaker in his debut feud. He didn’t win much from there—only picking up one victory in a tag match on Raw. Fortunately for Page, he would do a bit better on SmackDown, where he rode out his WWE tenure after the first brand split.

18 Dolph Ziggler: 0 WrestleMania Singles Matches

Dolph Ziggler is generally respected as one of the best in ring workers of his generation, and particularly among WWE’s homegrown talents who didn’t come to them after a lengthy tenure on the indies or abroad. Despite have performed at a high level for a decade there’s an interesting hole in his WWE resume—he has never worked a singles match at WrestleMania.

Ziggler is largely a victim of an era with more part-time stars coming back, and WWE trying to get everyone on the card. As such, he has found himself in a lot of big-team tag matches and battle royals. The closest he got to a featured spot was working a tag title match WrestleMania XXIX with Big E, challenging Team Hell No, though it’s also been reported that Ziggler was originally tapped to wrestle Shane McMahon at WrestleMania 34 before plans changed.

17 Jeff Hardy: No Wins At SummerSlam

WWE typically markets SummerSlam as second only to WrestleMania as the biggest show of the year. It’s the show where big time stars like Brock Lesnar and Randy Orton won their first world titles, and has played host to all time classics like Bret Hart vs. Davey Boy Smith in 1992 and Shawn Michaels’s comeback match against Triple H in 2002.

For as much as Jeff Hardy is a celebrated, long term star in WWE it’s very odd that he never won a single match at SummerSlam. That statistic takes into account not just underwhelming short matches like his one with Shinsuke Nakamura this year, but classics like the original TLC Match and his main event war with CM Punk. It’s an odd hole in the resume of a surefire future Hall of Famer.

16 Sasha Banks: More PPV Main Event Minutes Than Any Other Woman

Critics and hardcore fans have been quick to point out how under utilized Sasha Banks feels in WWE nowadays. Despite her talent and popularity, she was relegated to the pre-show battle royal at this year’s WrestleMania, and even on the all women’s Evolution PPV, she couldn’t get a singles match.

Despite not being featured as much as she probably should be, Banks can actually lay claim to more PPV main event minutes thus far than Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair, or any of the other more spotlighted women on the roster. The women have only had three main roster PPV main event opportunities. The first featured Banks and Flair in a 22 minute Hell in a Cell Match, eight minutes longer than the Rousey-Nikki Bella match that closed Evolution. Additionally, Banks was the iron woman at the women’s Royal Rumble, lasting over 54 minutes.

15 Vince McMahon: The Only Wrestler To Work Both Hulk Hogan & Shawn Michaels At WrestleMania

When it comes to the legends of WrestleMania, very few names compare to Hulk Hogan, who worked the last match of eight out of the first nine WrestleManias, and two more featured matches in 2002 and 2003. Shawn Michaels is one of those few legends of similar clout for not only working a high number of ‘Mania matches, but quite arguably more bona fide great matches at the show than anyone else.

Only one man has worked both of these all time greats at the biggest show of the year, and it’s not a world class worker or star like Steve Austin, Ric Flair, The Rock, or The Undertaker. No, it’s Vince McMahon, who worked Hogan at WrestleMania XIX and Michaels at 22, losing to each of the icons in his heel role.

14 Bo Dallas: Made Family History For WWE Tag Team Championships

After a very successful run in NXT, Bo Dallas has largely disappointed in his main roster run. He did, however, make an interesting bit of history in the tag title ranks.

When Dallas and Curtis Axel picked up the Raw Tag Team Championship from Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt, it marked the first time that three different blood relatives won tag gold in WWE with none of the working as partners. He actually took the title off his brother Wyatt (who’d won tag gold with both Hardy and Randy Orton). Their father, Mike Rotunda, had won tag gold previously with Barry Windham and Ted DiBiase.

13 Kane: Most Royal Rumble Eliminations, No Wins

Kane holds the record for the most career Royal Rumble eliminations at 42. It’s an impressive mark that rightly points to the fact that he has been in a lot of Rumble matches and, more often than not, been a featured performer in those matches.

Despite being largely synonymous with the annual bout, Kane is one of the biggest WWE stars to have never actually won a single iteration of it. In a sense, this stat feels emblematic of Kane’s place in WWE history. For so many years, including Kane’s prime, the Royal Rumble victory was not only a feather in someone’s cap or even a gateway to a world title shot, but a ticket straight to the WrestleMania main event. Kane has been a perennial upper card talent, but never quite crossed over to ‘Mania main eventer status.

12 Alexa Bliss: Has Never Worked A Non-Title Match On PPV

Alexa Bliss has been featured on the main roster since summer 2016. The brand split that started then seemed directly benefit her as she got opportunities to be featured she wouldn’t have had on a combined women’s roster, including PPV matches.

Interestingly, for all her PPV bouts, every single one to date has been a title-related match. The lone arguable exclusion was her appearance in the women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match. It’s a bit spurious if the briefcase should count as a title, but the fact that she won and converted into a title the same night feels as though it shores up her record. (Her champion vs. champion match at Survivor Series 2017 also wasn’t technically for a title, but she had the match because she was a champ).

Interestingly, Bliss’s streak would have ended at Evolution before she had to pull out due to being hurt.

11 Shane McMahon: The Only McMahon To Ever Win At WrestleMania

In the hierarchy of Vince, Stephanie, and Shane McMahon, it’s hard to argue that Shane isn’t the least powerful in WWE. Sure, he spent the better part of a decade away from the company, doing his own business, and in so doing lost some clout and his formal backstage position. More so, though, indications are that he saw the writing on the wall that his sister and brother-in-law were leapfrogging him in the WWE succession plan—and that’s if Vince ever hands over the reins.

Despite backstage power structures, in kayfabe, Shane has done what none of his blood relatives can claim to: he has won at WrestleMania. Whereas Shane beat X-Pac at WrestleMania XV and his dad at X-Seven (and winning a tag match at 34), Vince lost all three of his outings and Stephanie tapped to Ronda Rousey in her only ‘Mania match to date.

10 Spike Dudley: Won A Championship In Record Time

While Spike Dudley is a recognizable enough character from the Attitude Era, he wasn’t a bona fide star per se, rarely rising higher than the lower mid card on his own, and most memorable as a sidekick to the Dudley Boyz.

Spike got his name into the record books though in what was, in 2002, the shortest match to crown a new champion in WWE. He snatched a pair of brass knuckles that opponent William Regal had hidden in a turnbuckle, and immediately KOed the European Champion to take his title. It really does seem like an anomaly.

9 Bret Hart & Alberto Del Rio: The Only Stars To Lose The First Match On A PPV And Win The Last One

It’s rare for a WWE Superstar to lose a match and then go on to win another later in the night—at least on a live broadcast, as opposed to a TV taping with weeks of shows getting filmed. Wrestlers typically only work once per night, or in the context of a tournament, losing means a performer’s night is over.

So it is that Bret Hart and Alberto Del Rio share the dubious honor of being the only wrestlers to have lost a PPV opener and gone on to win the last match of the night. For Hart, it was losing to his brother Owen to kick off WrestleMania X, only to beat Yokozuna in the main event. For Del Rio, the scene was SummerSlam 2011 where he was on the losing team for the six-man opener but cashed in Money in the Bank at the end of the night.

8 John Cena: The Record Holder For Most SummerSlam Losses

John Cena has earned the respect of fans over their years for a deceptively deep resume of strong matches, and all the more so for having demonstrated his willingness to put over others in recent years.

Case in point, Cena has worked a lot of SummerSlams, including dropping classic bouts to the likes of Daniel Bryan and CM Punk, besides enduring a famous squash loss to Brock Lesnar in 2014.

Some of it is a matter of sheer volume of matches, but for as big a star as he is, Cena is also a historic loser at SummerSlam (nine losses), losing more matches at that event over the years than anyone to come before him.

7 Asuka: The First NXT Women’s Champion Not To Win A Title In Her First Year On The Main Roster

Asuka was something special in NXT—a dominant force who won her way to the Women’s Championship and held it for a year, boomed to wrestle at a higher level than anyone around her.

On paper, Asuka’s start on the main roster continued this story. She won the women’s Royal Rumble, won the Mixed Match Challenge, and stayed undefeated for nearly half of a year. However, to date, age still hasn’t won a title, failing in challenges to Charlotte Flair and Carmella. Unlike Flair, Paige, Sasha Banks, or Bayley before her, that makes her the first NXT Women’s Champion not to capture a title in her first year on the main roster.

6 Kevin Nash: The Only WWE Champion To Successfully Defend His Title At WrestleMania In The '90s

The '90s had its share of iconic WWE Champions, including Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Steve Austin, The Rock, and Shawn Michaels. Out of everyone who got his hands on WWE’s top prize that decade, only one ever defended the world title successfully at WrestleMania.

Diesel.

To be fair, after Hogan’s original reign, WWE spent most of the first two decades of ‘Mania using the biggest show of the year as the moment to pay off storylines with a heroic face winning his first world title or regaining it from a heel champ. Nonetheless, it feels odd for Diesel to have this successful defense on his resume relative to better champs when, in hindsight, most critics agree the Diesel WWE Championship reign was a bust.

5 Bam Bam Bigelow: The Only ECW Champion To Ever Main Event WrestleMania

ECW gets remembered fondly, and with good reason. It was an exciting, innovative brand that helped modernize wrestling and launched a cast of memorable stars who would go on to do good work in WWE and other national platforms.

For as over as ECW was, that wasn’t necessarily based on its world champions. Case in point, the only guy to get his hands on ECW strap to ever main event a WrestleMania was Bam Bam Bigelow. Many fans might guess a name like Rob Van Dam, as the ECW original who arguably got most over in WWE, but he both never won the world title in the original ECW, not ever got to main event a ‘Mania, though he did headline other PPVs.

4 Edge: The Most Recent Star Besides John Cena To Work Four Straight WrestleMania World Title Matches

When fans think of the top stars of WWE from the past decade or so, guys like Roman Reigns, Daniel Bryan, and Brock Lesnar may come to mind.

Interestingly, none of those guys had generated a streak of world title matches at WrestleMania in the past decade that can match Edge, who had title matches every year from WrestleMania XXIV to his retirement match at WrestleMania XXVII. Indeed, the only recent star to top Edge's stat was John Cena, whose own streak ran from from 21 to 27, ironically ending in the same year as his former arch-rival’s.

3 Sami Zayn And Samoa Joe: The Only NXT Champions Not To Win Gold On The Main Roster Since Getting Called Up

Since the launch of the WWE Network, NXT has been a celebrated brand with some of the best storytelling and in ring work WWE, on the whole, has to offer. To be crowned NXT Champion is an honor.

Sami Zayn and Samoa Joe certainly fit in among NXT Champions. They’re guys who worked their way up the card, gelled in the developmental brand, and didn’t seem out of place at all with the strap. However, for how over they each got, and how undeniably talented they each are, they also stand out for being the only former NXT champs called up to the main roster to still not win titles there.

There’s still plenty of time for either to grab gold, but with guys like Bo Dallas and Bobby Roode having already won titles, one has to wonder if WWE will pull the trigger on Zayn or Joe.

2 Yokozuna: Holds The Record For Most WrestleMania World Title Matches In A Two Year Span

When fans remember Yokozuna, they tend to think first and foremost of his remarkable physical size, and perhaps secondarily of his gimmick as a late stab at recapturing the old magic of the foreign heel act. They don’t, however, tend to think of his stamina.

Still, Yokozuna holds the unlikely distinction of having the record for the most WWE Championship matches in a two year span of WrestleManias, with a total of four outings. He beat Bret Hart for the title at WrestleMania IX, then lost it to Hulk Hogan in an impromptu match minutes later. He successfully defended the belt against Lex Luger at WrestleMania X, only to drop it back to Hart at the main event. Yokozuna working four matches in two nights may demonstrate WWE being thin on top heels then—or show how indecisive the company was about whom to push as the top face.

1 Braun Strowman: Has Never Won A Singles Match At WrestleMania

Braun Strowman is widely regarded as one of the top new stars WWE is building for this generation, and is on the short list of guys who could realistically be booked to beat Brock Lesnar, or win the WrestleMania main event next year. Interestingly, though, he doesn’t have a single WrestleMania singles match win to his name.

Strowman was mostly saved for post-WrestleMania pushes in 2016 and 2017, whereas 2018 saw him work his first featured match at the event. Still, that was a tag title match. In picking a child for his partner, Strowman essentially won a handicap match. Just the same, the official record shows the Monster Among Men hasn’t yet gotten the job done solo at a ‘Mania.