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Edge serves as Special Enforcer to match between Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns.
The WrestleMania 37, Night 2 main event is now a Triple Threat Match Between Daniel Bryan, Roman Reigns and Edge as Edge’s hit-or-miss WrestleMania season continues.
The change comes amid reports of the WrestleMania 37, Night 2 main event changing due to Edge’s appearance. Per Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (h/t Wrestling Inc), a source noted the 47-year-old Edge “was looking older each week,” though there are also reports that WWE Chairman Vince McMahon simply wanted to shake up the plans.
Edge’s in-ring return has had little-to-no effect on ratings, with the most recent indictment coming last Friday when Edge’s first SmackDown match in over a decade led to a decline in viewership. It’s worth mentioning, this broadcast went head-to-head with the opening day of March Madness.
The writing was on the wall for a WrestleMania main event change when Edge promptly turned heel during the climactic moments of last week’s WWE Fastlane main event. Last week during WWE Talking Smack, Paul Heyman even predicted the main event would change. To date, there has never been a Heel vs. Heel match in WrestleMania history, and for obvious reasons, there probably never will be.
Daniel Bryan had become a fixture in WWE’s top storyline on SmackDown in recent weeks. After winning the Elimination Chamber, Bryan was quickly defeated by Reigns in a Universal Championship match. Bryan lost yet again to Reigns last weekend at WWE Fastlane, however Edge’s involvement as the special guest enforcer hardly gave Bryan’s world title chase a sense of finality.
In what Bryan has teased could be his last WrestleMania, Bryan’s storyline at WrestleMania mirrors his defining moment in WWE at WrestleMania 30. Like Batista—who recently postponed his Hall of Fame induction—at WrestleMania 30, a part-time Hall of Famer is the challenger for a world championship in Edge. Like third-generation star Randy Orton at WrestleMania 30, the incumbent champion is a generational star in his own right—this time in Roman Reigns of the Anoa’i Dynasty. And, just as he had to stage a sit-in four weeks before WrestleMania 30 in 2014, Bryan had to stage a sit-in three weeks before WrestleMania 37.
Bryan now finds himself in the same lovable loser role that captivated the wrestling world during the defiantly feel-good “Yes Movement.” Bryan had to fight his way into the WrestleMania 30 main event by defeating Triple H in a memorable opening match. In the opening segment of Friday Night SmackDown, Bryan himself suggested Edge vs. Reigns be moved to Night 1 and the winner faces Bryan in Night 2. In the end, Daniel Bryan will look to win his second world title in a Triple Threat Match at WrestleMania.
Despite being moved from its originally scheduled location in Inglewood, WrestleMania 37 has still managed to become Hotel California.
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