You’ve spent more than an hour of your life watching Triple H entrances at WrestleMania

Triple H is fighting Seth Rollins in a non-sanctioned match this year at WrestleMania 33, and so that means you will likely be forced to endure yet another unnecessarily grandiose entrance from The Game.

With that in mind, I decided to take a look at how long each of Triple H’s prior entrances at WrestleMania events have lasted compared to his opponents. In the cases where Triple H faced multiple opponents (such as WrestleMania 16), I simply chose the opponent who had the longest entrance time from the group.

Here is a table with the results. The final column shows the difference in entrance time in seconds, where a negative time indicates that Triple H’s entrance was shorter than his opponent:

This table shows that Triple H had a longer entrance than his opponent in 15 of his 20 matches at WrestleMania. His entrance at WrestleMania 27 was actually longer than the Undertaker’s entrance! And not surprisingly, Triple H was most vulnerable to having a shorter entrance than his opponent in the years prior to reaching the main event level; he fell short of his opponent three times in his first four WrestleMania events.

It appears that these ridiculous things are lasting even longer in recent years, with his entrances at both WrestleMania 31 and WrestleMania 32 both breaking the 5-minute mark. Let’s face it, this is probably the main reason that Triple H was so determined to get on the card in a match at WrestleMania 33; his entrance is a decent bet to last longer than Goldberg’s match.

In total, Triple H’s 20 separate entrances add up to 60m 17s, which means that you have spent more than an hour of your life listening to his entrance music and watching this guy walk to the ring at WrestleMania.

The 20 opponents in the table above have a combined entrance time of 47m 18s. This man’s shovel cannot be held down, even when it comes to entrances.

Triple H wrestled multiple opponents at WrestleMania 16, 20, and 24, but the table above only includes the entrance time for one opponent in each of those years. When the missing entrance times for Mick Foley (1m 12s), the Rock (0m 58s), Chris Benoit (0m 47s), and Randy Orton (2m 11s) are also included from those WrestleMania events, his opponents still only come out with a total entrance time of 52m 26s.

For some context, it’s good to know that I timed all wrestler entrances on pay-per-view in 2014 and Randy Orton consistently had some of the longest entrances due to his slow walk to the ring. His average entrance time that year was roughly 2m 04s. Extending that lengthy entrance time average over 20 matches would produce a total entrance time of 41m 20s. So Triple H’s WrestleMania opponents beat that mark by a decent amount, but Triple H completely blows it away.

I would strongly prefer to see his 5-minute entrance time instead go to a Breezango entrance this year, but there are certainly some fans who eat this stuff up.

What do you think, Cagesiders? Are you looking forward to Triple H’s spectacular entrance this year at WrestleMania? And does Seth even have a small shot at surpassing the Cerebral Assassin’s entrance time?