WWE WrestleMania 36

Anyone who was familiar with Shayna Baszler and her dominant run in NXT was well aware that The Queen of Spades had Anyone who was familiar with Shayna Baszler and her dominant run in NXT was well aware that The Queen of Spades had a mean streak, but no one was ready for what happened when she hit the scene on Raw.
Not only did The Submission Magician mercilessly attack Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch from behind, but she sank her teeth into the back of Lynch’s neck, resulting in one of the grisliest scenes in recent WWE history.
Seemingly fired up by Shayna’s savage attack, The Man began clamoring for Baszler to win the Elimination Chamber Match to set up a WrestleMania showdown between the two combatants, and Becky soon got her wish. When Baszler entered the Elimination Chamber, she tore through her fellow competitors with tornado-like efficiency by decimating everyone in her path and elminating all five of her opponents to claim the victory and punch her ticket to The Show of Shows.
Against all odds, Lynch has remained Raw Women’s Champion ever since defeating Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey in the main event of WrestleMania 35. Over the past year, she has turned back the likes of Lacey Evans, Natalya and Asuka in several instant classics, all while retaining the massive chip on her shoulder that first led her to championship glory.
While this will be the first one-on-one meeting between The Man and The Queen of Spades, the two Superstars actually collided several months ago in the Survivor Series main event, a Champion vs. Champion vs. Champion Match that also featured Bayley. Baszler emerged victorious, but Lynch got the last laugh when she drove Shayna through an announce table after the bout.
Will the savage Baszler knock Becky from her perch? Or Will The Man once again reach down to topple another deadly opponent?
At WrestleMania, Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross will attempt to reclaim the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship from Asuka & Kairi Sane.
It was WWE Hell in a Cell 2019 when The Kabuki Warriors captured the WWE Women's Tag Team Titles from Bliss & Cross, after Sane distracted Bliss outside the ring and Asuka blew green mist in Nikki’s face.
When Bliss returned to action in November to reunite with Cross, their tandem seemed stronger than ever. It was only a matter of time until they once again crossed paths with the team that took their titles. The duo was still chomping at the bit to get an opportunity at The Kabuki Warriors when Asuka emerged and cost them a match against the first-ever WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Bayley & Sasha Banks on the March 13 edition of Friday Night SmackDown. Then, after weeks of mind games and personal attacks, Bliss reigned supreme over Asuka one-on-one, as Cross joined guest commentary and insisted all the while that she and The Goddess of WWE were the greatest WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions of all time. Now, the stage is set at The Show of Shows to find out if that is, in fact, true.
For the first time ever, a Royal Rumble winner will use their title opportunity to challenge for an NXT championship on The Grandest Stage of Them All, as 2020 Women’s Rumble Match victor Charlotte Flair will face NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania 36.
Flair outlasted 29 other competitors to win the Royal Rumble Match, but decided to take her time in deciding which champion to challenge in Tampa, despite Ripley calling The Queen out shortly after the Rumble. But while all past Rumble winners have chosen to go after a Raw or SmackDown championship, The Queen could not help but once again make history.
In choosing to face Ripley, Flair is heading back to her past. The Queen was the second Superstar to capture the NXT Women’s Championship after defeating Natalya in the finals of a 2015 tournament. She held the title for 258 days, helping to usher in WWE’s Women’s Evolution alongside Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch and Bayley in the process. After leaving NXT, Charlotte went on to become the most decorated female Superstar in WWE history, becoming a 10-time Women’s Champion.
But to add a second reign to her incredible resume, The Queen will have to topple a Nightmare. Rhea Ripley has been dominant since bursting onto the scene in WWE. The fierce Australian brutalized the competition on her way to the final four in the 2018 Mae Young Classic, then became the first-ever NXT UK Women’s Champion.
In recent months, The Nightmare became undeniable. First, Ripley helped lead the NXT takeover of Raw and SmackDown ahead of Survivor Series, even pinning Flair in a Triple Threat Match. Then, she guided her squad to victory in the first-ever Women’s WarGames Match before captaining Team NXT to victory in the Survivor Series Women’s Elimination Match by planting Sasha Banks into the canvas with a thunderous Riptide to seal the win. The biggest feather in Ripley’s cap, however, came on the final edition of NXT in 2019 when she captured the NXT Women’s Championship by defeating the seemingly unbeatable Shayna Baszler, ending The Submission Magician’s 416-day reign as champion.
Flair continued to tease Ripley and the NXT Universe, even catching a beatdown from Ripley and Bianca Belair in the process. But before Ripley could turn her full attention to Flair, she had to get through her title defense against The EST of NXT at TakeOver: Portland. The Nightmare was successful, but was soon ambushed by Flair, who said she had finally made up her mind, and would see Ripley in Tampa. The Queen then dropped Ripley with Natural Selection, and slammed Belair into the steel ring steps, for good measure.
SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley will have her hands full when she battles four Superstars in a Fatal 5-Way Elimination Match on The Grandest Stage of Them All.
Recently, the outspoken duo of Bayley and Banks came before the WWE Universe to proclaim that no one past, present or future would touch them in the squared circle. They also had the audacity to state that the Women’s Evolution is over and that the self-proclaimed Role Models' Era of Dominance has begun.
Those claims did not sit too well with many female competitors. Paige, one of the true pioneers of the groundbreaking Women’s Evolution, made a jaw-dropping announcement on SmackDown. As a result, she got the titleholder and The Boss to scream for her when the former SmackDown General Manager used her clout to establish a SmackDown Women’s Title Match at The Showcase of the Immortals in which Bayley will take on, not only her best friend Sasha, but also Lacey Evans, Tamina and Naomi.
Find out who will emerge from the chaos with the SmackDown Women’s Championship at WrestleMania.
==Match results==
===Night 1===
* Tag team match for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship: Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross def. The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane) (c) to win the titles. (15:02)
* Singles match for the Raw Women's Championship: Becky Lynch (c) def. Shayna Baszler to retain the title. (8:31)
===Night 2===
* Singles match: Liv Morgan def. Natalya (Kickoff Show) (6:23)
* Singles match for the NXT Women's Championship: Charlotte Flair def. Rhea Ripley (c) to win the title. (20:27)
* Singles match: Aleister Black def. Bobby Lashley (w/ Lana) (7:16)
* Singles match: Otis def. Dolph Ziggler (w/ Sonya Deville) (8:10)
* Tag team match for Raw Tag Tag Team Championship: The Street Profits (c) def. Angel Garza & Austin Theory (w/ Zelina Vega) to retain.
* Fatal 5-way elimination match for the SmackDown Women's Championship: Bayley (c) def. Tamina Snuka, Naomi, Sasha Banks, & Lacey Evans to retain the title. (19:27)
==Notes==
* Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross became the first 2-time tag team champions. This is Alexa's 7th overall championship and Nikki's 2nd.
* The first NXT Women's Championship match at WrestleMania.
*
Category:WrestleMania
Category:Wrestling shows affected by the COVID-19 outbreak
Category:2020 pay-per-view events
Category:Alexa Bliss
Category:Asuka
Category:Bayley
Category:Becky Lynch
Category:Bianca Belair
Category:Jessika Carr
Category:Charly Caruso
Category:Kairi Sane
Category:Kayla Braxton
Category:Lacey Evans
Category:Lana
Category:Liv Morgan
Category:Mandy Rose
Category:Naomi
Category:Natalya Neidhart
Category:Nikki Cross
Category:Renee Young
Category:Sasha Banks
Category:Shayna Baszler
Category:Sonya Deville
Category:Tamina Snuka
Category:Zelina Vega
Category:Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross vs. The Kabuki Warriors rivalry
Category:Becky Lynch vs. Shayna Baszler rivalry
Category:Rhea Ripley vs. Charlotte Flair rivalry
Category:Zelina Vega & Angel Garza management
Category:Women's matches in WWE
Category:WWE Raw Women's Championship matches
Category:WWE Women's Tag Team Championship matches
Category:WWE SmackDown Women's Championship matches
Category:NXT Women's Championship matches