5 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Raw 3:16 Day

1. Empty-Arena Mania

Look, WWE has just under three weeks to scrape together a plan that takes an event that was booked for a 70,000-seat stadium and put it on an empty WWE Performance Center.

Maybe the company can pull off a miracle. Maybe they can find a way to make this event that has been billed as larger than life come off in a similar fashion under these new circumstances.

Or maybe this is a huge mistake.

Visually, this is going to be a very different show. You’re going to have wrestlers hitting big, explosive moves that play out to silence as Michael Cole yells. You’re going to have new champions crowned and posing on the turnbuckle with their newly won title, holding it aloft for a bunch of empty chairs to… do nothing.

But beyond that, there’s the very real possibility that during the next three weeks, several of WWE’s top stars become unable to perform at WrestleMania 36. If Goldberg, Brock Lesnar or any other top star tests positive, it could at best throw off a match or two, or at worst wreak havoc on the entire event itself.

There’s a lot that could go very wrong here, or at least go very weirdly. As a wrestling fan, this writer sincerely hopes they’re doing the right thing and can pull a proverbial rabbit out of the hat. But let’s not hold our collective breaths.