10 Fascinating WWE Facts About WrestleMania 35
10. The Main Event Finish
Starting at the very end, WrestleMania 35's glorious climax was infamously fudged when Becky Lynch defeated Ronda Rousey with a loose roll-up long before the historic Raw & SmackDown Women's Championship match felt close to the conclusion.
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The 'Baddest Woman On The Planet' cleared up the confusion on an discussed the botched finish during an appearance on The Kurt Angle Show, noting exactly how things fell apart. She said;
"I didn’t think my shoulder was down...I was trying to flatten out to put my shoulder more down. I thought it was just the very tops of my shoulders, so I was trying to shimmy down so the actual back of my shoulders was down and I didn’t know that he had already started counting, so I’m worried that my shoulder came up during the shimmy. So I was trying to help, but it ended up being awesome because now I have a gripe to revisit. That wasn’t on purpose. I apologized about that one. It wasn’t until later that I was like, 'Oh f*ck, my bad."
Various bits of hubbub have suggested that Charlotte Flair was supposed to tap to preserve the Rousey/Lynch rematch, but it didn't matter - that singles match ultimately never materialised.
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