WWE's Two-Hour Gauntlet Worked Because Long Wrestling Matches Are Dying Off
by David Bixenspan from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3GESS)

You may have heard that this week's edition of Monday Night Raw featured the longest match in WWE history, a seven-man gauntlet match that lasted roughly two hours and took up the first two-thirds of the show. There was little logic behind the bout being made in-canon, especially just six days before all seven men"