Everything You Wanted To Know About Stipulations
50: Ladders purchased by WWE per year for various stipulation matches. Due to the loss of their structural integrity during a contest, these ladders are never used twice.
23: Total rungs on the largest ladder used in WWE matches. More often than not, 19-rung ladders are used inside the squared circle. Meanwhile, Hornswoggle's mini-ladder sports only five itty-bitty steps.
36: Ladder Matches contested in WWE history as of the 2009 Extreme Rules ppv. This stat doesn't include TLC Matches, of which there have been a grand total of seven.
24 Hours a Day/7Days a Week. The stipulation instituted on the WWE Hardcore Championship, which stated the title could change hands whenever, wherever so long as a referee was present.
10,000: Tacks Mankind scattered across the ring during his infamous Hell In a Cell Match against Undertaker at the 1998 King of the Ring.
0: No Rope Barbed Wire Matches contested in WWE history. The closest WWE has come was in 2005's brutal Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match at No Way Out.
1937: Year of the first recorded Cage Match. A Houston-area promoter surrounded a ring with Chicken wire to keep wrestlers in and the fans out. During the 1960s, "Classy" Freddie Blassie would propose that a wrestler climb out of the cage or walk through the door to win.
1: Time in WWE history that the World Heavyweight Championship has been defended in a ladder match. Chris Jericho retained the title, but only after losing a tooth. By the way, as of 2008, the World Heavyweight Championship has never changed hands at a No Mercy ppv.
$15,000: Purse for winning the Bodyslam Challenge, the very first stipulation match contested at the inaugural WrestleMania.
60: Most Superstars to ever compete in a single stipulation match. It occurred four times at the annual WCW ppv World War 3, which saw 60 wrestlers battle in three adjacent rings.
1 Hour, 10 Minutes, 52 Seconds: Length of the longest Iron Man Match in WWE history. Normally, these matches are scheduled to last 30 or 60 minutes, but at WM 12 neither Shawn Michaels nor Bret Hart could manage to score a pinfall or submission...sending the bout into sudden death overtime.
DID YOU KNOW...?
Shawn Michaels does not give high marks to his classic ladder match against Razor Ramon at WM 10. "Everyone goes on and on about that ladder match and I understand all the praise, but I look at that match and feel, 'Eh it was alright,' " says Michaels.
Shelton Benjamin has fought in four of the Money In The Bank Ladder Matches. "And I haven't won a single Money In The Bank Ladder Match," he laments. "It's either I don't know when to quit, or I have no luck with ladders."


