Chavo Guerrero wasn’t in the ring at WrestleMania 24 for long, but the veteran wrestler certainly made his time count.
At the event in March 2008, Guerrero lost the ECW World Championship in seconds to Kane, who had won a battle royal on the pre-show to earn the title match.
During a digital signing on “The Captain’s Corner,” Chavo explained that the match was the biggest payoff he ever had in WWE, and was supposed to be much longer. He said,
“The week before, we had like eight-minute matches. When we got to WrestleMania, Vince called us in. He goes, ‘Guys, I have to cut time. I’m cutting time all over the place. I even cut time from the main event and here shuffling times around.’ So he goes, ‘I can only give you guys two minutes.’ Well I’m like, ‘Two minutes? What are we gonna do in two minutes? No one remembers a two minute match at WrestleMania, nobody.’ So we’re like, ‘Well, what if we say we can do this in, you know, 10, 20 seconds’ and he was like, ‘What? What? That’s great. How can you do that?’
“By the second, it’s incredible but it’s for the whole match. It was the most I got paid for one match. It was a lot and thank you Jim Ross. But yeah, that was for that and if you break down the second, it was pretty lucrative.”
Guerrero would have a rematch at the following Backlash pay-per-view event, and while the match went longer, he would fail to regain the title.
