Report: WWE Has "No Direction" For WrestleMania 37
Roman Reigns heads the list of wrestlers suffering from WWE's lack of WrestleMania 37 planning.
Times are tough in the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly when it comes to planning anything in advance. The coronavirus' fluidity and suddenness with which positive tests can emerge makes everything beyond the short-term difficult, especially in professional wrestling, with company-wide outbreaks seemingly happening every couple of months.
Therefore, the following report shouldn't be considered a surprise.
Dave Meltzer writes in this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the reason WWE programming hasn't had any direction with regards to WrestleMania 37's biggest matches is because WWE hasn't actually planned any of them yet. Even at main event level, the card is undecided.
Nothing has been mentioned for the WWE Championship. On the SmackDown side, Daniel Bryan has been mentioned as Roman Reigns' Universal Title challenger but isn't considered a lock, with Shinsuke Nakamura also under consideration as recently as last week. Meltzer notes that Nakamura getting the bout is less likely than Kofi Kingston's rapid ascent in 2019, but not impossible.
WrestleMania 37 is currently booked as a two-night affair at Tampa, Florida's Raymond James Stadium on 10 and 11 April, with around 30,000 fans to be welcomed in on each night (numbers from the Observer). Announcing a few marquee matches may help shift those tickets, though WWE is in an unenviable situation.