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Sunday, April 5, 2020

Coronavirus-related wrestling updates, unique Omega shirt, WWE HoFer joins PWTees, WrestleMania press, Smackdown audience, more free content, Bump guest, Miz update, Taker documentary coming to Network, and Questions on future tapings and Braun replacing Roman

Coronavirus-related wrestling updates:
- The GAEA one night return event has been postponed until January.

- Vince McMahon was part of a presidential conference call for sports leaders discussing the pandemic.

Kenny Omega has a Capcom Cup T-shirt on Pro Wrestling Tees. Pretty cool to see that crossover.

Mark Henry is now on Pro Wrestling Tees.

WrestleMania press and notes:
- Stu Bennett did a live Q&A during the show

- WrestleMania 36 chairs sold out.

- Mark Henry, Becky Lynch, and Charlotte Flair spoke to TMZ Sports.

- Grado, Wolfgang, Noam Dar, and Jester discussed Drew McIntyre's WrestleMania opportunity.

- Kofi Kingston spoke to CBS Sports.

- Triple H spoke to TV Guide and CBS Sports.

- Sports Illustrated looked at ESPN's attempts to air WrestleMania and other behind-the-scenes notes.

- Rhea Ripley spoke to TVInsider.

- AJ Styles spoke to Newsweek.

- The Undertaker had a Snapchat lens of all things.

Smackdown drew 2.38 million viewers this week, almost identical to last week.

ROH streamed Supercard of Honor XI and Supercard of Honor XII Saturday.

Chris Jericho's latest podcast is a WrestleMania 25 watchalong with official Marty Elias.

Lilian Garcia was on Saturday's "The Bump."

The Miz missing WrestleMania was explained as being due to an injury rather than him being held off the show due to coronavirus concerns.

The Undertaker will be the subject of a WWE Network docuseries called "The Last Ride." Vince McMahon, Stone Cold, Shawn Michaels, Big Show, Edge, Michelle McCool, and Undertaker himself are all featured.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. There are people who REALLY want an alternative to WWE and won't hold AEW to the same critical standards as a result.

2. I haven't heard anything definitive on the matter.

3. I believe they're set until Double or Nothing. It sounds like they have another facility they can use if need be, too.

4. It was definitely poorly explained!

5. WWE really didn't have a lot of other credible options as far as people who weren't already in matches and were local to the tapings. They also clearly wanted to do a title switch at Mania, so using someone like Kane or Big Show wasn't ideal.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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