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WWE definitely wasnât hoping for a rain delay when it booked WrestleMania 37 outdoors at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, but the weather didnât cooperate, forcing the stacked in-ring card to start later than expected. In theory, that sounds like a frustrating mess, but despite a few minor technical issues, the rain delay actually proved to be great television. Quite a few wrestlers unexpectedly got time on the mic to help build their characters and hype matches, and we also got an all-time stupid joke from announcer Michael Cole.
Letâs start with the joke that Iâm still groaning about half a day later. Michael Cole, Samoa Joe and Byron Saxton were killing some time at the announcerâs table waiting for some promos to get set up when Cole refereed to the event as Wrestle-rain-ia. It was one of those jokes that you could tell he knew was horrible but also couldnât not say. Hereâs the text below.