15 Amazing WWE WrestleMania Backstage Secrets (From Someone Who Was There!)

11. The Usos Gauntlet Punishment Plan

Schilling had plenty to say on The Usos' involvement in WrestleMania 35.

Following on from his notes back the iconic New Day gauntlet edition of SmackDown and Jimmy and Jey's crucial involvement in that, he explains how their 'Show Of Shows' title defence could have been a ladder match as punishment from Vince McMahon for helping Kofi Kingston make it.

A creative idea and some decent dovetailing between the central characters, which is perhaps why McMahon hated it. The tag match was just one of two non-stipulation Fatal Four Ways booked on either side of a Miz/Shane brawl.

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