On Monday even WWE announced that its marquee event, WrestleMania 36, will move from its planned Tampa, Florida location to the WWE training center in Orlando. The event will be streamed from there, in front of no fans, on WWE Network and available on Pay Per view.
WWE already hosted SmackDown at the training center, and will host Monday Night Raw there, as well. It was … strange.
In the statement announcing the move from Tampa, WWE said that only “essential personnel” would be on the closed set, though it’s unclear how many people that would be.
Fans had mixed reactions to the decision. They also had a lot of jokes.
Ladies & Gentlemen, we are going to experience a Wrestlemania with no crowd in attendance.
We are living through history… pic.twitter.com/x8rIpV3mBP
— Zinfamous (@ZinfamousHD) March 16, 2020
Roman Reigns after he beats Goldberg at #WrestleMania: pic.twitter.com/l1yDQGb948
— Շ๏๓ Շђє ק๏รєรรє๔ ๒ץ ๔є๓๏ภ שคɭєภՇเภ๏♿ (@TheTomValentino) March 16, 2020
damn the wrestlemania 36 stage is fire pic.twitter.com/BDvFdPJNC4
— robert (@flairtorious) March 16, 2020
Charlottes entrance at Wrestlemania in the Performance Center: pic.twitter.com/nINoegXftx
— travage (@banksesglow) March 16, 2020
vince mcmahon and the boys at wrestlemania in the performance center when roman reigns wins the universal championship pic.twitter.com/x8SkqeTxje
— James Darnell (@cmpuls3) March 16, 2020
If #WWE has a sense of humor then during #Wrestlemania at the performance center they will still announce the attendance as 80,000
— Wrestling Daze (@WrestlingDaze) March 16, 2020
The wrestlers making their WrestleMania entrances in an empty performance center pic.twitter.com/r3Z2HKqFYU
— — (@kojiclutch) March 16, 2020
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