Backstage News From WWE’s MSG Live Event From This Past Weekend

WWE had their MSG live event this past weekend with a couple of big names making an appearance. Those names included WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar and 16-time World Heavyweight Champion John Cena. Despite WWE’s efforts to turn Brock Lesnar heel by virtue of having him miss the last couple of RAW shows and portraying him as someone who doesn’t care about the business, he was in fact loudly cheered at the Madison Square Garden live event this past weekend. WWE usually categorizes the MSG crowd as a group of people who are ahead of the curve so the belief is that if MSG fans are cheering Lesnar, that is likely going to happen at WrestleMania 34 as well.
Sonya Deville replaced Bayley in a mixed tag team match with Elias against John Cena and Nikki Bella. While Bayley is expected to be a heel going into her program against Sasha Banks, it is happening much slower than originally expected and so that is why they had to pull her from the match as it wouldn’t have made any sense.