Wrestlemania 2020 - Spoilers, rumours, etc

Itssoeasy

J. Marston wrote: »

If the results leak are people gonna read them?

I probably will. It doesn't feel like a real Mania so I don't think I'll be depriving myself of a massive moment since these matches are happening in front of nobody.

I'll do my best not to read them. But you're right it's a wrestlemania in name only to me. It's a weird time for wrestling and an event like mania is like Christmas and New Years but that's in normal times and we ain't in normal times.

ThePott

Yeah, I don't want to read them. I often read rumours and that kinda thing about likely finishes but when the ending is already filmed then it's so likely to be right that I don't want to see it.

Heard that they filmed two endings to some matches to prevent spoilers but not sure if that was true or not.

Agent Coulson

If I was AJ the first thing I would do is go for Takers hair transplant and weave and try and pull it out.

CastorTroy

Wonder how long it'll be. Last year was over 5 hours for the main show and if they claim this is too big for 1 night, it would need to be longer overall since they clearly won't be measuring size in attendance or setup/pyro.

If they do have a couple finishes for matches you can be sure people will be trying to get them afterwards or at least get details.
Of course, it's a way for supposed insiders to cover themselves "Oh they used the other finish"

Monokne

Agent Coulson wrote: »

If I was AJ the first thing I would do is go for Takers hair transplant and weave and try and pull it out.

Transplant?

His hairline is not far off the crown of his skull. Everytime I see him I wonder why he hasn't had one.

sky88

Fair play to Roman putting his health first


https://twitter.com/wrestlingsheet/status/1243351836549152768?s=21

J. Marston

Wow, that is big news. Sensible.

What do they do now? Last second replacement? No title match?

sky88

J. Marston wrote: »

Wow, that is big news. Sensible.

What do they do now? Last second replacement? No title match?

Hhh he’ll be there anyway or Cena


Or if they really want to go mental give it to riddle with the backstory

I think it’ll be trips

J. Marston

sky88 wrote: »

Hhh he’ll be there anyway or Cena


Or if they really want to go mental give it to riddle with the backstory

I think it’ll be trips

YES! Fúck it, you may as well. Mania is more or less a throwaway show in this situation.

Have Goldberg do an open challenge and then......."BROOOOOOOOOO".

The crowd will go wil.....oh wait.

PTH2009

J. Marston wrote: »

YES! Fúck it, you may as well. Mania is more or less a throwaway show in this situation.

Have Goldberg do an open challenge and then......."BROOOOOOOOOO".

The crowd will go wil.....oh wait.

They crew working can act as spectators

It actually would be awesome to see a show with that calibre of superstars in a small arena. Never in a month of Sundays will it happen in a time where Spectators are allowed.

I wonder did anyone try and attempt to get into the tapings

snoopboggybog

No Nakumara or Daniel Bryan scheduled yet? Surely has to be one of these.

Maybe Vince is on the phone now begging CM Punk to come back for one match.

JP Liz V1

sky88 wrote: »

Fair play to Roman putting his health first


https://twitter.com/wrestlingsheet/status/1243351836549152768?s=21

He is the doing the right thing

Vince should put all their health before profit and just cancel

snoopboggybog

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

He is the doing the right thing

Vince should put all their health before profit and just cancel

They could easily have these matches as another pay per view and setup wrestle mania again for August instead of Summerslam.

So much potential:

Orton vs Edge Round 2
Rollins vs Goldberg
Hardy vs Bryan
Cena vs Regins
Drew vs Brock round 2
Taker vs Joe
etc. etc.

Agent Coulson

So that is the first leak from the WM tapings.

Blue_Dabadee

This is going to a WrestleMania which barely gets acknowledge or shown in future video packages.

Loughc

snoopboggybog wrote: »

No Nakumara or Daniel Bryan scheduled yet? Surely has to be one of these.

Maybe Vince is on the phone now begging CM Punk to come back for one match.

Nakumaura/Bryan suppose to be wrestling for the Intercontinental championship rumour is D-Bryan is out.

Goldberg's opponent has been leaked, spoiled here if anyone is interested.

Braun Strowman

Monokne

Blue_Dabadee wrote: »

This is going to a WrestleMania which barely gets acknowledge or shown in future video packages.

That is not how this company works at all.

They will lionise it, frame it as how WWE were the one sports/entertainment property who kept going and entertained the world while they were gripped by the pandemic. It will be juxtaposed as part of history in video packages where they claim to have made history by packing 100k (LOL) into Giants stadium and made history by doing the first WM in front of no-one. Guarantee it.

Monokne

snoopboggybog wrote: »

No Nakumara or Daniel Bryan scheduled yet? Surely has to be one of these.

Maybe Vince is on the phone now begging CM Punk to come back for one match.

There is a note in the most recent Observer relating to this.

It says Punks agent has put out feelers to WWE looking for an offer but Vince has said "that's the one guy I just can't do business with" and doesn't want to do it at the moment. It was also noted Vince feels he's hurt his value to them being on Backstage (wholeheartedly agree with this, he feels so unimportant now).

The belief is his asking price is sky high as well. It is pretty clear at this point that he wants/needs money now. I think putting feelers out to them is a mistake on par with going on Backstage. Vince wants what he can't have. If he can have it, he doesn't want it.

sky88

Monokne wrote: »

There is a note in the most recent Observer relating to this.

It says Punks agent has put out feelers to WWE looking for an offer but Vince has said "that's the one guy I just can't do business with" and doesn't want to do it at the moment. It was also noted Vince feels he's hurt his value to them being on Backstage (wholeheartedly agree with this, he feels so unimportant now).

The belief is his asking price is sky high as well. It is pretty clear at this point that he wants/needs money now. I think putting feelers out to them is a mistake on par with going on Backstage. Vince wants what he can't have. If he can have it, he doesn't want it.

This seems to have changed complete from what they were saying with punk that hes been great with money and doesnt need it. he will be back wrestling soon one way or the other

Blue_Dabadee

Monokne wrote: »

That is not how this company works at all.

They will lionise it, frame it as how WWE were the one sports/entertainment property who kept going and entertained the world while they were gripped by the pandemic. It will be juxtaposed as part of history in video packages where they claim to have made history by packing 100k (LOL) into Giants stadium and made history by doing the first WM in front of no-one. Guarantee it.

It be kinda weird going from Hulk Hogan slamming Andre to whatever happens at WrestleMania in a video package.

briany

This year should be advertised as The Greatest Wrestlemania of All Time (Given the Circumstances).

Blue_Dabadee

It will remind of WrestleMania 27 where atmosphere for that show was a bit flat. I guess it was due to the arena or no titles changed hands that night.

Itssoeasy

Fair play to roman. A few here were asking should he pull out of the event because of his immune system being compromised. You'd hope that vince sees it for the genuine reason it is and there's no heat on roman but this is vince McMahon so nothing is beyond him.

J. Marston

I think they don't see Punk as a worthwhile investment.

Look at Edge. Edge was a far bigger star than Punk ever was. His career spanned the Attitude, Ruthless Aggression and PG eras but his return still hasn't brought anyone back in terms of viewing figures.

There was zero buzz around Punk's return on the backstage chat show. Also, they're probably not worried about AEW stepping in since Punk was so pissy (what a shock....) with them publicly.

beakerjoe

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Fair play to roman. A few here were asking should he pull out of the event because of his immune system being compromised. You'd hope that vince sees it for the genuine reason it is and there's no heat on roman but this is vince McMahon so nothing is beyond him.

Im hoping Reigns gets heat and Vince sours on him just so we dont see him anywhere near a maina main event again.

Fair play to Roman though. Its not worth the risk

ThePott

Someone on Reddit... I know.
Stated Roman was out before news had broken and also mentioned some other names that had pulled themself from the card including Goldberg and KO, among others.

I sort of can't wait to see this Mania for it being a car crash and totally random.

Loughc

ThePott wrote: »

Someone on Reddit... I know.
Stated Roman was out before news had broken and also mentioned some other names that had pulled themself from the card including Goldberg and KO, among others.

I sort of can't wait to see this Mania for it being a car crash and totally random.

Someone else on reddit leaked Roman's replacement so take everything with a pinch of salt.

It just echos the point they should have held off running Mania.

ThePott

Yeah of course everything is up in the air and there'll be rumours all over the next few days which will probably help add to the uncertainty and madness of it all.

I know I'm very much in the minority but I'm looking forward to Mania. Maybe it's because I'm a more recent fan than many here but I don't hold WM in the same reverence as a lot of people. Having it be this unpredictable and unique makes me intrigued. Even if it is a total car crash I can't wait to watch :pac:

Loughc

ThePott wrote: »

Yeah of course everything is up in the air and there'll be rumours all over the next few days which will probably help add to the uncertainty and madness of it all.

I know I'm very much in the minority but I'm looking forward to Mania. Maybe it's because I'm a more recent fan than many here but I don't hold WM in the same reverence as a lot of people. Having it be this unpredictable and unique makes me intrigued. Even if it is a total car crash I can't wait to watch :pac:

I am absolutely intrigued to what this years mania will look like and starting tonight I'm going back to WM13 and re-watching Manias up to last years before next week.

ThePott

Loughc wrote: »

I am absolutely intrigued to what this years mania will look like and starting tonight I'm going back to WM13 and re-watching Manias up to last years before next week.

That is very tempting

beakerjoe

Mania is going to be ****, I've resigned myself to be disappointed. But sure I will watch as theres not much else to do.

sky88

beakerjoe wrote: »

Mania is going to be ****, I've resigned myself to be disappointed. But sure I will watch as theres not much else to do.

wont be watching it live (well airing live) but sure as hell will be watching as you said nothing else to do

PTH2009

I wonder what WWEs logic for moving it to the PC and spreading it over 2 nights is ???

Obv we know its cause of covid 19 and public gatherings ban but wwe will ignore that reason and think of some BS reason for it

Vince 'the wwe universe will believe anything hahhaha'

J. Marston

Interesting to see how they approach the Roman thing.

Just be straight up and honest or try to kayfabe something up out of the blue.

ThePott

Lots more rumours flying around right now, don't shoot the messenger and salt shakers at the ready. I'll put it behind a spoiler tag in case people don't want to know the situation or who may not be working the show.

So Meltzer was hinting that there was some issue with the Usos and the Miz leading to Roman pulling out. The same 'insider' on Reddit that said Roman was gone before anyone else has said that Miz showed up sick (not with corona symptoms). Usos wouldn't work as a result and same goes for Roman. Goldberg was out if Roman was but got talked into an angle with Braun. He's also saying that Edge is out too

Again take it all for what it's worth but wow what a mess. Can't wait to someday see WWE 24: Wrestlemania 36

sky88

all these mania stories sure as hell are providing a distraction for sure

Agent Coulson

All these leaks it wouldn't be to hard to work out who is actually leaking them considering there can't be that many around to normal shows.

The White Wolf

Looking forward to the ads and the McMahons being prominent on the show.

Chuck Noland

I can picture Vince reaching for the “Vince Russo Guide to Swerves” book right about now and trying to conjure up some big finale to get the world talking.

sky88

This is so good

https://youtu.be/arp6k8qOdm8

Chuck Noland

sky88 wrote: »

This is so good

https://youtu.be/arp6k8qOdm8

Thanks for that!

Loughc

Chuck Noland wrote: »

I can picture Vince reaching for the “Vince Russo Guide to Swerves” book right about now and trying to conjure up some big finale to get the world talking.

The finale will reveal to show Vince holding a half eaten bat shouting it was me WWE universe it was me all along.

CastorTroy

He will come out and announce his plans to reveal the contents of the lockbox, before the person who blew up his limo interrupts.

Itssoeasy

I realise things were always going to be rough anyway but if the names plus roman who seems confirmed are also confirmed as being out you'd wonder if they'll even properly fill out the two nights fully.

Monokne

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I realise things were always going to be rough anyway but if the names plus roman who seems confirmed are also confirmed as being out you'd wonder if they'll even properly fill out the two nights fully.

It's already in the can so I am sure they did.

SureYWouldntYa

ThePott wrote: »

Again take it all for what it's worth but wow what a mess. Can't wait to someday see WWE 24: Wrestlemania 36

It'll be interesting but a lot of talking heads rather than behind the curtains stuff, if they're even close to half sensible then they're not filming extra stuff like this needing x amount of people in close proximity to those running the show atm

ThePott

Yeah was more a tongue in cheek comment. They can't wait to tell the story of how they soldiered on and entertained the world though.

beakerjoe

Brock v Drew and Orton v Edge are the only thing keeping this from being a total flop and even then its gonna be a **** version of what we were expecting.

No one, and I mean no one is dying to see this show. Its gonna do more damage than good to those involved and for what..... so Vince can spew the 'WWE kept going in the face of adversity ' bollox. Its just not worth it on any level.

If some one catches the virus at the PC and dies it could kill the business.

PTH2009

beakerjoe wrote: »

Brock v Drew and Orton v Edge are the only thing keeping this from being a total flop and even then its gonna be a **** version of what we were expecting.

No one, and I mean no one is dying to see this show. Its gonna do more damage than good to those involved and for what..... so Vince can spew the 'WWE kept going in the face of adversity ' bollox. Its just not worth it on any level.

If some one catches the virus at the PC and dies it could kill the business.

Imagine if Vince got it

Monokne

It wouldn't kill the business. Come on now.

You had a main event wrestler kill his wife and son with a t:e ratio 59 times higher than normal while PASSING steroid tests, and you had another wrestler dropped from the ceiling and die in the middle of the ring on a live TV show & they didn't even stop the show.

It's bad press and that's it.

Besides which, it's impossible to prove someone got it specifically at the Performance Center. Oh and these are all young healthy people. It's a mild flu to them.