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| File:WrestleMania 35 poster.jpg Promotional poster featuring Braun Strowman, Naomi, Daniel Bryan, Ronda Rousey, AJ Styles, and Shinsuke Nakamura | |||
| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown 205 Live | ||
| Date | April 7, 2019 | ||
| City | East Rutherford, New Jersey | ||
| Venue | MetLife Stadium | ||
| Tagline(s) | WrestleMania comes to New York/New Jersey | ||
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WrestleMania 35 will be the thirty-fifth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brands. It will take place on April 7, 2019 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Production
Background
WrestleMania is considered WWE's flagship event,[1] having been described as the Super Bowl of sports entertainment.[2] The event will be the first WrestleMania to be held in the state of New Jersey since 2013 (at the same venue).[3] This is the fourth WrestleMania to be held in the state of New Jersey (IV, V, 29), and the sixth in the New York City Metropolitan Area (I, 2, X, XX, 29).
On November 5, 2018, traveling packages for the event were sold;[4][5] tickets went on sale on November 16, 2018, with individual tickets costing from $35 to $2,500.[4]
On the March 4 episode of Raw, Colin Jost and Micheal Che of Saturday Night Live were announced as special correspondents.[6]
Storylines
The card will include matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters to build tension, culminating in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brands,[7][8] with storylines produced on their weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw, SmackDown Live,[9] and the cruiserweight-exclusive 205 Live.[10]
At the Royal Rumble, Seth Rollins won the men's Royal Rumble match, thus earning a world championship match of his choice at WrestleMania 35.[11] The next night on Raw, WWE Chief Operating Officer Triple H congratulated Rollins and gave him until the end of the night to choose which champion he wanted to face. Later, Rollins confronted Universal Champion Brock Lesnar. After an ensuing brawl, Rollins made his choice that he wanted to face Lesnar for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania.[12] Rollins and Lesnar's last encounter at a WrestleMania was WrestleMania 31 in which Rollins cashed-in his Money in the Bank contract during a match between Lesnar and Roman Reigns, turning the match into a triple threat match in which Rollins pinned Reigns to win Lesnar's then-WWE World Heavyweight Championship (now WWE Championship).[13]
At SummerSlam, Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair were involved in a triple threat match for the SmackDown Women's Championship, which Flair won. After the match, Lynch attacked Flair.[14] Lynch defeated Flair for the championship at Hell in a Cell and they continued their feud over the title for the next few months.[15][16] At Survivor Series, Lynch was originally scheduled to face Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey in a champion versus champion match, but was replaced by Flair due to a legitimate injury; during the match, Flair brutally attacked Rousey with weapons.[17][18] At TLC: Tables, Ladders, & Chairs, Rousey interfered in the titular triple threat championship match, costing both the match.[19] Lynch was unsuccessful in regaining the title at the Royal Rumble but won the women's Royal Rumble match by last eliminating Flair, despite injuring her own knee, and chose to face Rousey for the Raw Women's Championship at WrestleMania 35.[11][12] Lynch then refused a medical examination on her knee after a brawl with Flair on SmackDown. Stephanie McMahon gave Lynch an ultimatum: have her knee examined or be suspended until she does. Lynch still refused and was suspended indefinitely.[20] The following Raw, it was revealed that Lynch had her knee examined and was cleared and her suspension lifted, but Vince McMahon overruled the decision and suspended Lynch for 60 days and announced Flair as her replacement at WrestleMania.[21] Over the next couple of weeks, Lynch continued to break her suspension and on the March 4 episode of Raw, a match between Lynch and Flair was scheduled for Fastlane where if Lynch wins, she will be added back into the championship match at WrestleMania to make it a triple threat match.[22]
On the February 19 episode of 205 Live, General Manager Drake Maverick scheduled an eight-man single elimination tournament with the winner facing Buddy Murphy for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship at WrestleMania 35.[23] The tournament began the following week. Tony Nese and Drew Gulak advanced to the semifinals by defeating Kalisto and The Brian Kendrick, respectively.[24]
Matches
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|match1 = Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Seth Rollins
|stip1 = Singles match
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|match2 = Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Charlotte Flair
|stip2 = Singles match for the WWE Raw Women's Championship[25]
If Becky Lynch defeats Charlotte at Fastlane, she will be added back into the match, and it will become a Triple Threat match for the championship.
|match3 = Buddy Murphy (c) vs. Oney Lorcan |stip3 = Singles match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship[23]
|match6 = The Usos Jey and Jimmy Uso (c) vs. The Hardys Jeff and Matt Hardy|stip6=Tag team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship
205 Live WrestleMania #1 contender's tournament bracket
| First round 205 Live (2/26,[24] 3/5) | Semifinals 205 Live (3/12) | Final | ||||||||||||
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| Drew Gulak | Sub | |||||||||||||
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| Cedric Alexander | ||||||||||||||
| Cedric Alexander | ||||||||||||||
| Akira Tozawa | ||||||||||||||
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... WWE's flagship event lights up MetLife Stadium ... WrestleMania
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