10 Ways WWE Is Completely Unrecognisable From Just One Year Ago
1. The First Ever TAPED WrestleMania
It being dwelled upon a lot, but this. Is. Huge.
WrestleMania will be in the books (wherever those are kept) nearly two full weeks before it airs thanks to an ambitious taping schedule by WWE to get as much in the can before other forces stop them being able to. With the world getting increasingly smaller crowd-wise in the near future, this is astute, but keeping the results from leaking seems an impossibility beyond the pale in 2020.
Though the "essential personnel" in attendance probably won't have Dave Meltzer on speed dial in front of the scant few colleagues they'll see in the room, they will for the 10-day period before they air, especially without a lot of much else to do to kill the time.
Your writer would like nothing more than for every single match to be a closely guarded secret with six different finishes that are equally hidden right up until showtime and it's likely you do too. But the sinking feeling of this not really being a WrestleMania even if it's labelled as such by the temporary signage hanging in the Performance Center that evening is as real as it gets, and any potential spoilers will be too tantalising. The biggest surprises on the night will come from not from the results but in finding out if the company can erect a pirate ship in a gym.