Shortest/longest wrestling event you've ever attended?

[wildojinx]

So what's the shortest and the longest wrestling show you've ever attended? Shortest would probably be some indy show at a state fair that was only an hour long, longest would be a RAW taping in 1997 which was a little over 3 hours IIRC (the one with Austin throwing the IC title into a river and later stunnering Santa, they also had to redo the Steve Blackman vs Jose Estrada match and had a Triple H vs Taker casket match as a dark match which likely added to the time).

[brown bricks]

A local independent show I went to years ago was no more than 30 minutes long.

Longest event I ever attended was an ROH show in Atlanta a couple of years ago. I'm not sure of an exact time, but it was wayyyyy too long and it felt like I was there for at least 24 hours.

[Deleted]

I have caveats.

Longest I attended and stayed the entire time: Last year's SDL/205 Live taping. A shade more than 4 hours total (including dark matches Mojo vs. Ryder before and Nakamura/Orton/Styles vs. Jinder/Owens/Zayn final.)

Longest attended, didn't stay for whole thing: IWA Mid-South in 2004. Saw the first handful of matches [4 way tag match, Angel(ina Love) Williams vs. ODB, Nigel McGuinness vs. Claudio Castagnoli, a Bobby Heenan appearance/signing], left about 9:30pm because I promised my wife we'd see Mean Girls at the movies.
Heard the event didn't end until 1am.
[Edit: Technically the event started late because Ian thinks he's Paul Heyman and gave a 20-minute speech before they finally got going.]

Shortest: Probably a WCW event from the early '90s. I'm pretty sure one of them was just a little more than 2 hours.

The others were anywhere from 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

I want to say a Cage of Death show from a few years ago was the longest, due to taking over an hour to build the cage.

Shortest was probably a WWF house show I saw in the fall of 1998, main-evented by a short bout between The Rock and Vader.

[Jake, The Jake, Jake]

Longest was Wrestlemania 32. Got in the building at like 5:15 (although the show started an hour earlier) and didn’t leave til like 10:45. Shortest is probably the terrible Smackdown house show I went to in 06 that was main evented by King Booker and Bobby Lashley. They were doing everything they could to kill time on that show. Booker’s entrance must have lasted twenty minutes.

[Venti]

Don't know how long it was exactly, but I attended an ROH tv taping in San Antonio a few years ago that was probably a few hours because they filmed what seemed like 2 or 3 episodes, plus dark matches.
On a side note, I got to take a pic with AJ Styles like a couple months before he joined WWE, and the Young Bucks liked my shirt. So that was a highlight.

The only other show ive been to was Raw in 2014, which was three hours plus dark matches, but it seemed to have went by fast.

[theresalwaysanegon]

The longest would be either night 1 or 2 of the 2008 King of Trios when they had 28 teams instead of 16 or whatever Cage of Death I went to, they took over an hour to build the cage. The shortest was probably also a Chikara show.

[cassonova]

Longest has to be the IWA-MS King of the Death Matches 2011. Just due to the cleaning in between matches.

Shortest has to be a defunct company that ran out of Orion IL. So family friendly the show was over by 9p after starting at 7p.

[DSR]

I never actually keep track of time while I'm at a wrestling event, so I'm going by how long or short they felt.

Longest was probably an ROH TV taping back in 2012. They taped four or five episodes worth of material.

Shortest was a TV taping for local all-women's promotion Angel Gate earlier this year. Two episodes worth of material and even with an intermission it was over in two hours.

[Natural Born Farmer]

One of the WrestleCircus shows was around 6 hours. Tons of great matches but by the time they got to the first ever match between the Lucha Bros and O’Reilly/Fish, the crowd was definitely burned out, and that wasn’t even the main event.

[Deleted]

Shortest: WWF House Show in 95. Longest match was probably eleven minutes.

Longest: Shitty outlaw mud show I attended back in October. Took forever to set up all the death match stuff for the main event

[Cyno]

Shortest - High school Gym Indie show when I was a teenager. The Mean Street Posse was there. I tried to get a "Pete Gas" chant going but I was no sold.

Longest - WWE Raw taping about 4 years ago at the Prudential Center in Newark. I think with the dark matches it was just a little under four hours total.

[edtheripper]

I've been to TOD a few times, and those usually run in the ballpark of 4-5 hours. The process of cleaning up and then setting the gimmicks up for the next match always tends to drag.

[Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen]

Longest has to be any one of the ROH shows I went to when Gabe was in charge. Some of those shows were marathons.

Shortest was a 2CW show at the county fair that was just over an hour.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Dec 29, 2018 12:44:27 GMT -5 brown bricks said:

A local independent show I went to years ago was no more than 30 minutes long.

Go on, people gotta know!

[brown bricks]

Dec 29, 2018 23:33:02 GMT -5 TWERKIN' MAGGLE said:

Dec 29, 2018 12:44:27 GMT -5 brown bricks said:

A local independent show I went to years ago was no more than 30 minutes long.

Go on, people gotta know!

Well, it ended due to a wrestler spitting in the face of a woman in the crowd (I guess that's a big thing to leave out of the previous post). Lady's husband went ape-shit, so they kicked him out. The remaining three matches were all quick squashes because the crowd was pissed about the boyfriend/brother/husband/whatever getting kicked out. I would've been pissed over the quick show, but the wrestling was so awful, I was just happy to leave. My cousin and I went back the next week and Mike Jackson was the big "attraction". He announced at intermission that since school was about to start back he was cutting 8x10's from $6.00 to $5.75, which is still the most hilarious thing I've ever heard at a show. That was the last show the "company" ran. They had a hell of a two show run.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Longest is Last Rites Championship wrestling's first show. Started at 7pm and was almost 1am when it ended. But that was cause...

The ring crew forgot to secure the mat down. So after the 50 minute long opening Rites Rumble the ring crew had to come out and fix it.

Intermission was almost an hour.

Shortest was Brickhouse Brown's Blazing Stone show in Jackson. Was 3 matches and lasted maybe 1 1/2 hours.

[Deleted]

Shortest I guess was this random house show I went to in late 2007 / early 2008 (I forget exactly when it was, but Punk was ECW Champion at the time), longest was Mania 33.

[4TheGlory]

Wrestlemania 34 and Super card of honor 12 were both extremely long.

[ayumidah]

Longest probably Wrestlemania 22 in Chicago

Shortest would be any current day WWE house show, which tends to run about two to two and a half hours.