With several sports postponing or canceling their seasons, the fate of WrestleMania is up in the air. RAW and SmackDown have officially been moved to the Performance Center with no audiences.
Due to the Coronavirus, the fear is that the Show of Shows will be postponed, or worse, by next week. Officials have stated that they’re giving WWE a chance to make the announcement themselves. If they don’t, the event may be canceled outright.
However, Jim Ross believes that the show will go on. On Grillin’ JR, he feels that the Coronavirus will only affect attendance.
I don’t think it will be [canceled]. It would be a shocker, it would be a huge loss for not only the WWE financially, but also for fans that are planning on going and making it a part of an annual excursion or their first WrestleMania ever.
WrestleMania is a major event and that’s an understatement obviously, but it’s a major event from the standpoint that many other companies use Wrestlemania as a source of creating new revenue. It could be detrimental to a lot of companies, but knowing the wrestling mantra as I do, I don’t think it’s going to be canceled.
I haven’t heard the latest, but I don’t think it’s going to be canceled. We are seeing some major things, it would be a huge impact on WrestleMania. I can’t say the virus isn’t going to affect attendance, I think that could happen.
For now, WrestleMania 36 is still set to take place on April 5th.
