10 Fascinating WWE Facts About WrestleMania 36

4. Going Out On Top

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When viewed retrospectively, the WrestleMania 36 card unintentionally serves as a guide to who Vince McMahon saw as important enough ahead of one of the crueler business decisions he'd ever make.

The "Black Wednesday" cuts of 2020 dropped just days removed from the 'Show Of Shows' and was disgusting before one considers the sacrifices being made by talent to take themselves to Orlando, Florida during the scariest and uncertain period of the pandemic.

That the released wrestlers then had nowhere else to go was especially awful, as was the sheer scope and scale of it all. 100+ talent and staff suffered during a time where everybody was suffering enough, and yet only two that appeared on the WrestleMania main show were included in the redundancies. Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows were warm bodies for The Undertaker to batter during his Boneyard Match against AJ Styles, then thrown out in the cold soon after. Jaunts via Impact and AEW over the following years resulted in a comeback under Triple H in late-2022.

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