9 WWE WrestleMania 37 - Night 1 Impulse Reactions

9. The Crowd

Without one individual match from the card generating the typical buzz for the biggest show of the year, major anticipation centred around how exactly the 25,000 in attendance would look and sound during the show after 13 months of sterile atmospheres.

Pre-show shots of people taking their seats amongst the cardboard cut-outs ramped all that up. Going over a year without anything is weird - going without a key component of a pro wrestling show has never fully become the normalised experience promoters would have hoped for.

It was worth the wait. And what a wait in turned out to be.

Just minutes after a bizarrely evocative introduction by Vince McMahon that saw the whole roster rolled out on stage, Michael Cole greeted audiences with a weather delay. An actual honest-to-god weather delay. WrestleMania 37 had another first before the opener.

After 13 months, the jokes about having to wait even longer wrote themselves, unlike the the promos...