• This seemed like it was going to be Roman Reigns 5th (6th? I've lost track) coronation to mark him as THE guy in WWE.
  
• Roman recovered from a second bout of leukemia in recent years and has a compromised immune system as a result, making him at a greater risk from COVID-19.
  
• Roman showed up to the Wrestlemania tapings where another wrestler had shown up sick and said he wasn't comfortable taking part, and went home.
  
• This was reported by the mainstream media, which for once WWE didn't blow their loads over. Then Roman announced it publicly himself.
  
• WWE not only didn't mention this until the very last Smackdown one day before Wrestlemania, but simply stated Braun was in the match now and didn't even mention Roman by name.
  

• Drew eliminated Brock from the Royal Rumble (with a little help from Ricochet) which he went on to win.
  
• Drew humiliated Brock in physical confrontations back when the show was still allowed crowds.
  
• Paul Heyman has declared that Drew is special but Brock makes a habit of beating special people and this will be no different.
  
• The Global Pandemic saved Drew from having to be mentored by an old Scottish gameskeeper in some awful quasi-Skyfall relationship, which was WWE's original plan.
  
• This was the match that seemed to have the most potential to be good quality, and hopefully it will live up to that.
  

• John Cena made an appearance on Smackdown to explain that he wasn't going to be on Wrestlemania this year, because his time was past and it wasn't fair to take away from the current stars time to shine.
  
• Bray Wyatt showed up and challenged Cena to a match at Wrestlemania and John instantly agreed his time was now and it was fair to take away from the current stars time to shine.
  
• Bray admitted that Cena beating him at an earlier Wrestlemania still burned him up inside, and would use The Fiend to set things right. He challenged Cena to a Firefly Funhouse match.
  
• We don't know what a Firefly Funhouse match is.
  
• Cena declared Bray looked stupid and was lazy and wanted to blame Cena for not being more successful, then got spooked by Bray teleporting and doing horror-film jump scares
  

• Edge returned at the Royal Rumble, and the next night on Raw old partner Randy Orton suggested they reform Rated RKO... then attacked Edge and beat him badly enough to need a stretcher job.
  
• Orton refused to explain himself until Edge's wife Beth Phoenix showed up to give a medical update, and he cut an excellent heel promo claiming he cared for Edge more than she did, and RKOed her.
  
• Edge returned and beat Orton's rear end, then later demanded a Last Man Standing match at Wrestlemania.
  
• It's actually sad because it's not a bad story at all, but Edge returned from seemingly permanent retirement and his first Mania back is going to be an empty arena inside the WWE Performance Center.
  

• AJ Styles cut a series of promos mocking Undertaker for being old, washed up, pathetic and whipped by his wife Michelle McCool.
  
• Undertaker finally offered a promo back calling AJ a coward scared of big stars like himself, Austin, Rock, Mankind etc and only came to WWE when they were gone, effectively burying the entire current roster as losers.
  
• If AJ wins, he's beaten a washed up old man. If AJ loses, he lost to a washed up old man. If Undertaker wins, he's beaten a loser coward. If Undertaker loses, he's lost to a loser coward.
  
• The Boneyard match is just straight up a Graveyard match, but Vince decided he wanted it called a Boneyard match instead for no conceivable reason.
  
• This would have been a fantastic match 15 or even 10 years ago. But it's 2020, hopefully being taped allows them to make it work.
  

• After defeating Asuka at Royal Rumble, Becky's story changed from,"I've been too scared to face Asuka" to "Asuka has been ducking me but I finally got my hands on her"
  
• Shayna Baszler jumped Becky out of nowhere and bit her and poured fake blood out of her mouth.
  
• That actually happened.
  
• Shayna obliterated her other opponents in the Elimination Chamber main event, with only Asuka putting up any kind of fight.
  
• Becky pointed out that she beat Ronda Rousey at the last Wrestlemania and Ronda was better than Shayna ever was.
  
• Shayna choked Becky out with a surprise attack after Becky's final promo on Raw.
  

• After winning the Royal Rumble, Charlotte Flair had to choose between the Raw and Smackdown Women's Championships.
  
• Rhea Ripley showed up and reminded her the NXT Championship was also up for grabs but warned her not to try for it.
  
• Charlotte decided to try for it.
  
• Bianca Belair got beaten by Charlotte in a very good match and promptly disappeared from any kind of storyline, and she deserves better.
  
• The entire angle is based on the premise that Rhea feels she and others have elevated NXT to a higher level than Charlotte left it at, while Charlotte declares she's still superior to everybody in NXT.
  

• Sami became champion after he, Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Braun Strowman in a match Braun initially suggested and also agreed to be in.
  
• Sami rubbed it in Daniel Bryan's face that he'd offered Bryan the chance to be in his group and been declined, and Bryan was now hanging out with Drew Gulak and taking his coaching advice.
  
• Drew Gulak beat Shinsuke Nakamura to get Bryan a title shot against Sami Zayn.
  
• Daniel Bryan's wife Brie is heavily pregnant and as a result Bryan will need to be quarantined from her for 3 weeks after Wrestlemania.
  

• Owens and Rollins have been feuding a long time now over Owens being sick of Seth Rollins being an rear end in a top hat who never shuts up.
  
• The feud initially featured stables but injuries to one of the Authors of Pain as well as Samoa Joe put an end to that.
  
• The feud turned into Rollins and Owens arguing over who truly made the Performance Center and NXT a success, with Rollins claiming it was all him.
  
• Regardless of victories in matches, Owens has mostly ended up getting Curbstomped by Rollins at the end of their segments.
  

• Otis wanted to date Mandy Rose, and she finally agreed to go out on Valentine's Day.
  
• He arrived at the restaurant and found Dolph Ziggler there with Mandy.
  
• Otis got really creepy/possessive and Mandy told him to gently caress off.
  
• Ziggler mocked Otis and teased him with suggestions he had nude photos of Mandy.
  
• It got revealed on Smackdown that Sonya Deville had orchestrated Ziggler's appearance and other misunderstandings between Otis and Mandy.
  
• This is now an angle between Mandy and Sonya, neither of whom are wrestling in this match.
  

• Asuka was mostly wrapped up in singles matches the last couple months, and Alexa Bliss called the Kabuki Warriors out to come defend their belts.
  
• The Kabuki Warriors made fun of Alexa and Nikki but didn't answer the challenge.
  
• Alexa managed to beat Asuka in a singles match, and the tag team match was made official.
  
• Alexa and Nikki have only had one tag match in the last two months, which they lost (to Bayley and Sasha).
  

• Bayley defeated a returning Naomi to retain her title, and had beaten Lacey Evans several times, so she declared she was skipping Wrestlemania and going straight to the Hall of Fame.
  
• Paige, who apparently has the power to do this now, decided that Bayley would defend her title against Lacey and Naomi and also Dana Brooke.
  
• Bayley mocked the idea as ridiculous and said why not throw in Tamina too, so Paige agreed because again apparently she can just do that. She also put in Sasha.
  
• Dana Brooke had to go into quarantine due to possible COVID-19 exposure and got dropped out of the match without explanation.
  
• Sasha has been suspiciously quiet about the idea of wanting to win the title from Bayley.
  

• Angel Garza was called up from NXT to replace Andrade who was on suspension for a wellness failure. He did so well he stuck around in a tag team when Andrade returned.
  
• Andrade suffered a rib injury and had to pull out of the tag match with the Street Profits (who presumably originally would have been facing AOP if they hadn't suffered an injury too).
  
• Austin Theory, who has only been in NXT for 6 months, has replaced Andrade to tag with Andrade's original replacement.
  
• Montez Ford did something REALLY STUPID on the go-home Raw.
  

• Rusev's wife Lana wanted a divorce, it turned out she was sleeping with Lashley (in storyline).
  
• Rusev said he was happy she was going to marry Lashley, but interfered in the wedding anyway.
  
• Lashley and Rusev never got a proper blow-off match for a variety of reasons, making Wrestlemania the perfect place for the two to finally face off.
  
• Bobby Lashley and Aleister Black will be wrestling at Wrestlemania.
  

• Elias kept singing songs making fun of Baron Corbin, which pissed Corbin off.
  
• Corbin knocked Elias off the Crow's Nest at the Performance Center.
  
• The match is still scheduled but the commentators have suggested Elias won't be medically cleared to wrestle.
  

• THIS MATCH IS NOT HAPPENING.
  
• THEY HAVE CONTINUED ADVERTISING THIS MATCH KNOWING IT IS NOT HAPPENING.
  
• THE MIZ SHOWED UP TO THE WRESTLEMANIA TAPINGS SICK AND GOT SENT HOME.
  
• THE ENTIRE SHOW SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN THE MOMENT THAT HAPPENED.
  

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