WWE Rumor Roundup - Couple breaking up, Superstar retiring after WrestleMania 36 match, Vince McMahon's backstage reaction - 5th April 2020

#2. The reason why WWE booked Shayna Baszler to lose

Shayna Baszler losing to Becky Lynch was easily the biggest upset coming out of WrestleMania 36.

Baszler was the overwhelming favorite to win the RAW Women's Championship from Becky Lynch but WWE made the decision to give 'The Man' a fluky win.

Dave Meltzer revealed in the Wrestling Observer Radio that WWE booked Baszler to lose as they want the feud to continue.

WWE was not ready to take the title off Lynch just yet while also wanting to protect the Queen of Spades, which explained the quick finish to the match.

The WrestleMania match was just the first of many matches in the storyline between Baszler and Lynch, which is expected to go on for the foreseeable future.

Meltzer explained:

In this case, it was like, do we need to change the title now? No, we don't need to. It was a quick win. It wasn't like she beat her with the Disarmher, she beat him with the powerslam or anything like that. Whenever you do a finish like that, the idea is to protect the heel while the babyface sneaks over. That's exactly what this finish is. It came across to me that this was hardly the finale. This is just the first match and they didn't want to change the title and it was a way to kind of like get a win without hurting Shayna. That's clearly what the design was. The basic gist is that they didn't want to change the title and this is what they did and they didn't want to do a DQ.