10 Biggest Challenges WrestleMania Has Ever Faced

2. Global Chaos - WrestleMania 36

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It would be impossible to put together a feature based around the challenges WrestleMania has faced over the decades without including the ongoing situation with WrestleMania 36.

Right now, the world is in the midst of chaos - and that chaos has obviously been reflected across WWE programming as of late.

No longer is WrestleMania 36 going ahead at Tampa, Florida's Raymond James Stadium. No longer is WrestleMania 36 going to be played out in front of an expected crowd of 75,000 people. No longer is WrestleMania 36 going to be a mammoth seven-hour slog (silver linings, right?).

Instead, WrestleMania 36 will take place in front of a crowd of absolutely zero, with only essential personnel present for the event. In fact, there is even a chance that this year's Granddaddy of Them All - which we now know will air over two days - could end up being pre-recorded.

With how the situation we're in at present as a society is changing on a daily, if not hourly basis, it wouldn't be unfeasible to think that WWE's current plans for WrestleMania 36 will get changed up even further as we edge closer to the weekend of April 4 and 5. And for WWE, this is a challenge the likes of which they - like the rest of us - have never seen before.

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