Best of WrestleMania 36 Night 1
Take a look back at the biggest moments from Night 1 of WrestleMania 36.
Video Transcript
STEPHANIE MCMAHON: Every year, about this time, WWE presents its premier event, WrestleMania. Each WrestleMania has its own personality and has been different than the rest. Tonight and tomorrow's WrestleMania will be the most different of all. There won't be 80,000 screaming fans in a stadium, due to the current circumstances. Tonight, we emanate from a closed set with no audience, as well as other locations.
Nonetheless, it is our commitment to you to somehow, someway provide you with a diversion during these hard times, deliver a sense of hope, determination, and perseverance, and most of all, to entertain you and your family. On behalf of all of us, especially our WWE superstars, we'd like to say thank you. And welcome to WrestleMania.
- It is sure to be the most unique WrestleMania in the 35-year history of this great event. Sit back and enjoy the next two nights. Here is your host.
ROB GRONKOWSKI: Welcome to WrestleMania. Many of you know me as Rob Gronkowski, three-time Super Bowl champion football player. But tonight, I'm here as Gronk, your WrestleMania host with the most.
And it gives me great pleasure to welcome you the first ever night one of WrestleMania, because this year, WWE looked at everything we got planned and said, nope. This party's too big for just one night. We need two nights for this action-packed, title-stacked beast. And we need your boy, Gronk, to host it. And I promise you this. They picked the right man for the job, because I know how to start a party on a Saturday night and end it 30 hours later.
- Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
[BELL DINGING]
- Yes! Yes!
- The following contest scheduled for one fall is for the Intercontinental Championship!
- Yes! Yes!
- WrestleMania, as the king would say.
R-TRUTH: But I got to keep my head on a swivel at all times. I can't go to picnics. I can't go to church. I can't go to cookouts. Twenty-four hours a day. It's got to be defended. I just got my baby back.
I don't want nobody-- can I chill over here for a little bit? Can keep me hidden over here? Come on, Mojo. Keep it down. Keep it down. Gronk, don't get crunk, OK? Just keep it down.
[NO SPEECH]
MOJO RAWLEY: Oh, no, you don't!
- One! Two!
MOJO RAWLEY: Come here! Get out of here! No way! Come here! Count!
- One! Two! Three! New 24/7 champion!
MOJO RAWLEY: That's right, baby! Give me the-- (GRUNTS) That's right! Champ! Uh-huh! Come get it. I ain't running, playboy.
- And here in the state of the art WWE Performance Center, the athletic hub of WWE here in Orlando, Florida, plenty of titles on the line this weekend at WrestleMania. But coming up next, Becky Lynch faces the toughest--
- There's not much way out of this.
- Twisted bliss!
- Except that!
- Congratulations.
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- --so Elias doesn't make it to the ring. And Elias now kicked in the midsection!
- Ahh!
- That's a disqualification!
- But the match didn't start. The bell hasn't rung yet!
[HONK]
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- You want to talk about polar opposites? How about Becky Lynch's arrival here to WrestleMania, and now the arrival of Shayna Baszler, who--
- --furious test!
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- Lynch looks a little dazed. Oh, oh, wait a minute!
- Oh, no, no! Oh my god! And driven into the apron!
- Now, Shayna tried this earlier.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!
- Oh, into the desk! And Shayna Baszler again, bashing Becky Lynch off the announce desk.
- Becky Lynch!
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- And once again, Becky Lynch standing tall at WrestleMania.
- When John Morrison says he wasn't tough enough [INAUDIBLE], to me, he's always had unlimited potential. And he's reached a lot of it. Tonight, he can create a moment--
- John Morrison! Oh, my god! And Kofi Kingston launches himself, top rope.
- Wow! Oh, wow!
- Right there!
- Are you kidding me?
- Unbelievable!
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- --man attempts to reshape Raw in his image. Well, that message is under a serious threat here tonight.
- Oh my god. Kevin Owens is on top of the WrestleMania sign!
KEVIN OWENS: How's this for WrestleMania moment?
- Oh, jeez. Oh my god! Kevin Owens launching himself off the WrestleMania sign!
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- He is a true icon. He is a Hall of Famer.
Goldberg seems to be out of it. Braun Strowman now with Goldberg on his shoulder. Emphatic running powerslam!
Indeed, it is the time of Braun Strowman.
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