TAMPA BAY – After having been postponed last year due to the coronavirus pandemic – WWE fans didn’t let Saturday’s severe weather stand in their way of being part of history.
We must warn you this story will contain some match spoilers.
“I’m just getting started, and that’s a little scary, you know? I’m just getting started,” said Bianca Belair.
Along with a sell-out crowd of 25, 675 spectators – WWE’s first event welcoming back fans lived up to the hype. With night one of WrestleMania 37 in the history books. Here’s what you may have missed.
Despite a minor rain delay, members of the WWE Universe were treated with Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley kicking things off in an epic battle for WWE Championship. These two heavyweights set the core pace of the night.
“For me I live by the motto ‘Stay Ready so You Don’t Have to Get Ready.’” said Belair. “But this is WrestleMania we’re talking about. This is on the grandest stage of them all.”
But it was the Main Event match to close out the first night of the “Showcase of the Immortals” between the EST of the WWE and the Legit Boss that stole the show.
The two women competing in a monumental main event match for the Smackdown Women’s Championship. Only the second time in WrestleMania history the women have closed off the show.
“Everyone is a part of this. It’s us physically standing there but everyone is in the ring with us because we’re representing for everyone,” said Belair.
But that’s not all, the historic main event match between Belair and Sasha Banks was the first time two black women competed in a singles match for the top prize in the women’s locker room.
“We’re kind of in the forefront of a new generation of women that are going to be coming from NXT in the next couple of years, and I’m just excited,” said Belair.
Setting the stage for what’s to come next in the evolution of women’s wrestling. “We always say – people always said that we are the future, and all I could say is the future is now,” she said.
You can catch the final night of epic two-part event starting at 8 pm on the Peacock Network.
And don’t miss next week when SNN’s Alejandro Romero wraps up his WrestleMania coverage and takes us inside Raymond James Stadium for a behind the scenes look through a fans experience.
