6 Wrestling rumors we hope are true and 6 we hope aren't: Unexpected name to take over WWE after Vince McMahon, Big change to WrestleMania 36 main event

By Rohit Nath

Modified Feb 02, 2020 17:54 GMT

Paul Heyman (left); Edge (right) backstage at Royal Rumble 2020

#2. Hope isn't true: Ronda Rousey's WrestleMania status

As expected, the road to WrestleMania is going to be filled with rumors about the grandest stage of them all. Since the Royal Rumble 2020 is over and we saw all the big returns, the question is as to who will return this time around.

A big name that many had hoped to see at Survivor Series 2019 and then Royal Rumble 2020 is Ronda Rousey. We last saw Rousey on WWE TV last WrestleMania when she main evented the show. Dave Meltzer on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter said that the word as of now is that Rousey won't be appearing at WrestleMania:

"Still, if Lynch vs. Baszler is the key women’s match on the show, then it would have made sense for Baszler to win the Rumble, particularly since a large percentage of the viewership doesn’t watch NXT and isn’t familiar with her, yet she’s in the top women’s match on the show unless Rousey is coming back, which according to what we are told, Rousey will not be wrestling this year at Mania."

We hope this isn't true because Rousey is a valuable superstar to WWE and proved exactly what she's worth in her historic 2018-19 run.

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Rohit Nath is a content writer from Bangalore, India. A former full-time employee of Sportskeeda, Rohit was a part of building Sportskeeda's WWE section in its rapid growth. His work has been featured in both Sportskeeda and Wrestlezone.

Some of the big names interviewed by Rohit are AJ Styles, Jinder Mahal, Jimmy Uso and Sasha Banks. Some of his popular weekly features include RAW Preview, "X things Subtly told us" and "Wrestling rumors we hope are true and those we hope aren't".

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