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WrestleMania 37 Night Two was another strong night of professional wrestling in Tampa, Florida. The fans were rewarded with a lot of heels winning matches on Sunday Night. It seemed a little deflating for the live audience for sure.
We had a bizarre opening match, a fun Women’s Tag Team match, an excellent ten-minute Owens-Zayn encounter, a lot of title changes and an excellent WrestleMania main event. WWE is well set up for the future after these two wonderful nights in Tampa. It is just a shame we will go back to shows with no fans for the foreseeable future.
As we still try to figure out why no drums were used in a Nigerian Drum Fight, we should try to distract ourselves and present the list of the top five most surprising moments of WWE WrestleMania 37 Night Two:
#5 Heels win every title match at WWE WrestleMania 37 Night Two
WrestleMania 37 Night Two gave us a pleasant surprise. WWE has done a terrible job of building credible heels in recent years. The good guys overcame the odds time and time again, especially at WrestleMania. But WWE WrestleMania 37 Night Two had a big twist. We had five title matches and five victories for team evil. That is one way to not give fans what they wanted.
At WrestleMania 37 Night Two, the fans were surely left disappointed. In a surprisingly good tag team match, Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax retained the titles to a more surprisingly fan-supported team of Natalya and Tamina Snuka.
Sheamus hit a brutal Brogue Kick to win the United States Championship. Apollo Crews cheated his way to the Intercontinental Championship.
Rhea Ripley, who's currently treading the line between a heel and a face, cleanly beat Asuka to win the RAW Women’s Championship. Most surprisingly, Roman Reigns pinned Daniel Bryan and Edge to end WrestleMania 37 Night Two.
WWE desperately needed to build credible heels, but we didn’t expect it to occur on the same night.
#4 The Fiend vs. Randy Orton match at WrestleMania 37 Night Two
At WrestleMania 37 Night Two, WWE made the surprising choice to have The Fiend and Randy Orton open the show. The crowd was clearly behind The Fiend. This makes sense since Randy Orton burnt him alive last December at TLC. It seems the WWE audience loves creepy monsters who come out of a Jack-in-a-Box. It was quite the visual at WrestleMania 37 Night Two.
The six-minute match started off quite strange with that annoying red light returning. Did any WWE fan really miss it? The Fiend controlled the entire match against Randy Orton and was on the verge of hitting his Sister Abigail finishing move to pick up the victory. That is when some weird and annoying things happened at WrestleMania 37 Night Two.
Alexa Bliss, who was sitting on top of the box, began leaking mysterious black liquid down her face. This naturally was pretty distracting to The Fiend, who went over to look at this bizarre moment. This allowed Randy Orton to recover, hit the RKO, and pick up the victory at WrestleMania 37 Night Two.
The fans in Tampa were naturally furious. Did we need to see The Fiend lose yet again to Randy Orton at WrestleMania yet again? We are all sure that this will make for some future storyline developments, but for the time being, it was simply another confusing and frustrating loss for The Sinister Entity.
#3 Apollo Crews gets help to win the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania 37 Night Two
At WrestleMania 37 Night Two, we had the first-ever Nigerian Drum Fight. And as is to be expected in the Drum Fight, the stars used numerous kendo sticks and lots of steel steps. They didn’t even bother to play or use the drums at all!
Needless to say, it was pretty disappointing that the Nigerian Drum Fight turned out to be a very traditional Street Fight. But that isn’t to say this brief match didn’t have some real surprises at WrestleMania 37 Night Two.
The Street Fight was a pretty straightforward match. The action was pretty good in the brief seven-minutes match, but it was surprising to see an interference to end the match at WrestleMania. The wrestler formerly known as Dabba Kato attacked Big E, which allowed Apollo Crews to pick up the pinfall victory and win the Intercontinental Championship for the very first time.
Apollo Crews now has a big man by his side and it could be the beginning of an interesting reign for Crews. It is great to see Apollo getting a chance to shine after all these years. It is just surprising to see some cheating required to win the title.
#2 Rhea Ripley wins clean at WWE WrestleMania 37 Night Two
At WrestleMania 37 Night Two, Asuka put her RAW Women’s Championship on the line against Rhea Ripley. It was a nice surprise to see a singles match without including Charlotte Flair or another RAW wrestler in the proceedings. Asuka and Rhea Ripley deserved this opportunity to showcase their impressive talents at WrestleMania on Sunday night in Tampa.
The match between the two was a solid 13-minute encounter. Asuka was in control of a majority of the offense of the match. In particular, the DDT onto the floor looked particularly brutal for Ripley. That is what made the finish a big surprise.
Asuka had connected with a series of kicks and was looking for a few more to end the title match. She missed with a kick, and Ripley countered into the Riptide Slam for the victory. It was rather surprising to see a sudden finisher with no kick-outs, especially on such a big stage.
Rhea Ripley became the second new talent to win their first Women’s Championship during WrestleMania weekend, the first being Bianca Belair. It is refreshing to see WWE use WrestleMania to create two new female stars on this entertaining weekend.
#1 Roman Reigns retains his Universal Championship in the main event of WrestleMania 37 Night Two
The main event at WrestleMania 37 Night Two was possibly the best of the entire weekend. For nearly 23 minutes, Daniel Bryan, Roman Reigns and Edge proceeded to beat the heck out of each other in a fast-paced bout.
The match was so well set up that it was hard to tell who the winner would be on Sunday night. The choice for the winner of the main event was the most surprising choice they could have made.
Some of the standout moments of this epic match were Edge’s hitting spear out of nowhere onto Reigns, Roman powerbombing Daniel Bryan onto the announce table, and Edge using a piece of a steel chair for a Crossface submission. It was an incredible pace, and the entire crowd present in the Raymond James Stadium was into every near fall.
But what was surprising was the ending of the match. Edge did the Conchairto to take out Daniel Bryan. As Edge went to do the same to Reigns, Jey Uso distracted Edge. This allowed Roman to recover and spear Edge. After hitting The Rated-R Superstar with a Conchairto, Reigns stacked Edge onto Daniel Bryan for a double pinfall to retain the title in an emphatic fashion in the main event of WrestleMania.
Roman Reigns long title reign continued at WrestleMania. The big question now is who can stop the Tribal Chief?
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