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The biggest bad guy at WrestleMania is coronavirus

WrestleMania planned for Gronk Gone Wild.

Rob Gronkowski is set to host WWE's signature show. But the frivolity -- and perhaps the physicality if a wrestler dare gets in the retired New England Patriots star's face -- is now playing strictly to an audience of TV and streaming media viewers.

For WrestleMania ticket-buying fans, that's as unwelcome as a steel chair to the back.

Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, the scheduled site of WrestleMania, is closed.

While real sports have shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, WWE has pressed on and continued to produce programming three nights a week for "Raw," "NXT" and "Smackdown.