Backstage notes from WrestleMania Night 1
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Producers for tonight's matches:
- Usos vs. Boogs & Nakamura: Shawn Daivari. It was budgeted for 20 minutes with entrances.
- Drew McIntyre vs. Corbin: Abyss
- Mysterios vs. Miz & Logan Paul: Shane Helms & Adam Peace
- Becky Lynch & Bianca Belair: Molly Holly & Tyson Kidd
- Seth Rollins vs. Cody Rhodes: Jamie Noble
- Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte: Pat Buck
- Kevin Owens vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin: Michael Hayes
- Petey Williams and Kenny Dykstra were supposed to produce New Day vs. Sheamus & Ridge Holland
- There were two vehicles that weren't used parked next to Austin's ATV backstage, and were covered up.
- The pitch for Steve Austin to wrestle were made as far back as January.
- Jeff and Karen Jarrett were backstage at WrestleMania
- Several matches on night 1 went long, which led to New Day vs. Ridge Holland & Sheamus being pulled from the show. It seemed like it'd be easy to move to night two, but as of the end of night one, that wasn't confirmed. It was later promoted on WWE.com
- Hurricane and Adam Pearce had a big hand in preparing Logan Paul for tonight's match.
- WWE had reserved a few seats ringside for Jake Paul, Cody Rhodes' manager Brian Wittenstein, and others close to certain people on the show.
- KO vs. Austin was not listed on internal run sheets as a match
Comments
From where I was sitting on night 1, I could see Austin’s ATV, the SUV that Becky came out in, and one more car that was covered. I’m guessing that was the Rolls Royce.
2022-04-04 21:34:54 +0000 UTCI saw they had ATV and 2 cars behind the curtains. Becky used a car. So you’re saying there was 3 cars?
Brady Sprenkle
2022-04-03 17:57:08 +0000 UTC
