After weeks of back-and-forth between Tampa city leaders and WWE, Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment have made the decision to not hold April’s Wrestlemania 36 as a live event in Tampa.
Due to myriad health and safety concerns around the coronavirus pandemic, Wrestlemania will instead be held at the WWE Performance Center at in Orlando – increasingly the broadcast taping location for much of WWE’s weekly programming – without an audience.
Wrestlemania 36 will take place on a closed set, and broadcast on pay-per-view and livestream on the WWE’s website. Concerns over coronvavirus not only caused Wrestlemania to be moved, but also caused a host of independent wrestling events and the annual Wrestlecon all set for Tampa that same week to all be canceled and postponed.
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Due to rapidly changing circumstances surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many Central Florida events have been postponed or canceled. Check out our list of canceled activities, and please follow CDC guidelines to stay safe and prevent transmission.
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