WrestleMania 36

WrestleMania 36 is the upcoming 36th annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE and the second WWE pay-per-view of 2020. It will take place on April 19, 2020 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. WrestleMania 36 will be the first WrestleMania to be held in the city of Tampa, and the fourth held in the state of Florida (after XXIV, XXVIII, and 33).

Background
WrestleMania is considered WWE's flagship event, having first been held in 1985. It is the longest-running professional wrestling event in history and is held annually between mid-March to mid-April. It was the first of WWE's original four pay-per-views, which includes Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, dubbed the "Big Four". WrestleMania is ranked the sixth most valuable sports brand in the world by Forbes, and has been described as the Super Bowl of sports entertainment. WrestleMania 36 will be the first WrestleMania to be held in the city of Tampa, and the fourth held in the state of Florida (after XXIV, XXVIII, and 33). It will feature wrestlers from the Raw brand.

Storylines
The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw brand, while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television show, Monday Night Raw.

At the Royal Rumble both Adam Cole and Kylie Rae won their respective Royal Rumble matches and will receive championship matches at WrestleMania. At No Way Out Tyler Breeze would successfully defend the WWE Championship inside the Elimination Chamber seemingly punching his ticket to WrestleMania, however earlier in the night the team of Jake Anderson, Jimmy Jacobs, Randy Orton, Johnny Gargano & Killer Kross earned future championship opportunities. After the match Raw General Manager, William Regal would reveal that Anderson and Jacobs would face one another on the March 2, 2020 episode of Raw to determine who would face Breeze for the WWE Championship at the upcoming Raw Supershow, where the winner would go on to defend the title against Cole at WrestleMania. During the Women's Elimination Chamber match, Billie Kay would successfully defend her WWE Women's Championship inside the Chamber and would therefore punch her ticket to WrestleMania where she'll defend the title against Kylie Rae.

It would be revealed on the following episode of Raw that Rae had suffered an injury and therefore couldn't compete at WrestleMania, so Raw General Manager Paige announced a Road to WrestleMania tournament to decide who would challenge Billie Kay for the championship with the runner up earning a Goddess Championship match. The two women who finished in both third and fourth respectively would earn a shot at the Women's Tag Team Championships. On the March 16, 2020 episode of Raw, Chelsea Green became the first woman to qualify for the Women's Money in the Bank Ladder match defeating Candice LeRae, Ruby Riott and Jessica Havok. Jake Anderson also qualified for the Men's Money in the Bank Ladder match after defeating Alberto Del Rio. Tyler Breeze would manage to successfully retain his WWE Championship against Jimmy Jacobs after interference from Adam Cole, thus making it official that it would Breeze defending his championship against Cole at WrestleMania. On the March 23rd, episode of Raw both Becky Lynch and Allie would be eliminated from the tournament and earned themselves an opportunity at Lacey Evans and Taya Valkyrie's Women's Tag Team Championships. On that same episode the rest of the Men's Money in the Bank participants would be revealed as Jay White, Big E, Adam Page, Killer Kross and the Velveteen Dream with all of them winning their respective qualifying matches. Three more participants would also be revealed for the Women's Money in the Bank Ladder match with Nixon Newell, Scarlett Bordeaux and Kris Statlander all qualifying.

It was revealed by Triple H and Stephanie McMahon that Award winning recording artist, Katy Perry would sing "America the Beautiful" at WrestleMania on their official Facebook page. On the March 30th episode of Raw, Cole would align himself with Jake Anderson with the two re-forming the Undisputed Era, they would go onto lose a tag team match against Jacobs and Breeze, before attacking the latter after Jacobs would abandon Breeze. Earlier in the night Mickie James would defeat Rosemary to win the Road to WrestleMania tournament and earn herself an opportunity at Billie Kay's Women's Championship while Rosemary would earn herself an opportunity at Charlotte Flair's Goddess Championship. During the closing segment, Triple H revealed that Stone Cold Steve Austin would be the guest host of WrestleMania.