Wrestlemania 36 took place on April 4th and 5th. This was the first time in history that Wrestlemania took place over two days. The show featured some big matches, including Drew McIntyre vs Brock Lesnar and Braun Strowman vs Goldberg. This page will be your hub for all of Dave Meltzer’s ratings for the event.
The ratings are from his Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscribe here). He rates them on a 5-star scale [here are all of the five-star ratings that he has ever given out].
Dave Meltzer Star Ratings – Wrestlemania 36
******* Update****** Dave Meltzer decided NOT to rate any of the matches from Wrestlemania 36. Here is his explanation from the Newsletter:
Anyway, rating empty arena taped and heavily edited matches, let alone produced movies, as pro wrestling matches is ridiculous. Pro wrestling matches don’t have the benefit of reshooting moves, having cuts in filming and redoing things that don’t look good, special effects after the fact, taking out slow spots (granted they for whatever reason should have but failed to do that with Orton vs,. Edge). It’s both unfair to wrestlers in certain matches because some of these bouts with a crowd would have been great. And it’s unfair to the guys who are rated based on one-take pro wrestling and their ability to do their moves and tell their stories and feed off reactions, to compare what they do to produced skits with cuts and multiple takes, or matches with two weeks of being able to edit anything negative out of. There were matches that were stopped and re-shot after moves were missed.
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Elias vs King Corbin in a singles match.
- Rating: Not Rated
Bobby Lashley vs Aleister Black in a singles match.
- Rating: Not Rated
Kevin Owens vs Seth Rollins in a singles match.
- Rating: Not Rated
Charlotte Flair vs Rhea Ripley for the NXT Women’s Championship.
- Rating: Not Rated
Shayna Baszler vs Becky Lynch for the RAW Women’s Championship.
- Rating: Not Rated
Lacey Evans vs Sasha Banks vs Naomi vs Tamina Snuka vs Bayley in an elimination match for the Smackdown Women’s Championship.
- Rating: Not Rated
Angel Garza and Austin Theory vs The Street Profits for the RAW Tag Team Championships.
- Rating: Not Rated
Edge vs Randy Orton in a ‘Last Man Standing’ match.
- Rating: Not Rated
The Undertaker vs AJ Styles in a ‘Boneyard’ match.
- Rating: Not Rated
John Cena vs The Fiend
- Rating: Not Rated
Braun Strowman vs Goldberg for the WWE Universal Championship.
- Rating: Not Rated
Drew McIntyre vs Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship.
- Rating: Not Rated
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