2020

I’m taking the Rewind time machine away from NXT 2.0 for a bit (I’ll be back). I need a break from the POKER WARZ of Duke Hudson and Cameron Grimes. My original intent was to spin towards Money in the Bank 2020 after this past Monday’s Raw mentioned that MITB qualifiers for this year start next week. Then as I got into the MITB write-up, I realized there was only one other big event in this specific era before it and I might as well cover it too.

WrestleMania 36. It was going to be a grand spectacle at Raymond James Stadium on April 5, 2020. And then, well, plans changed. COVID-19 began rampaging across the world, becoming a pandemic in March 2020 with major sports organizations all cancelling or postponing their seasons and large gatherings shut down. On March 16th, WWE announced that WrestleMania would be moving (alongside their weekly programming) to the WWE Performance Center in Orlando with no crowds and only essential personnel. They also used this opportunity to declare WrestleMania “too big for one night” and make it a two-night event, something that would stick for later years.