The City of Tampa Is Not Canceling WrestleMania… For Now

As noted, the city of Tampa had a special meeting today to discuss the possibility of canceling events and large gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic, including WrestleMania next month.

In a press conference today, Tampa mayor Jane Castor said that the city is not going to “take immediate action” yet since WrestleMania is still “weeks down the road” (three weeks).

“We don’t have to take immediate action for events that are occurring weeks down the road,” Castor said.

The City of Tampa also said that they would be meeting again in seven days, on March 19 at 1:30 PM ET to discuss the situation.

City of Tampa will be meeting again in 7 days from today at 1:30 p.m. ET. #Wrestlemania36 to be discussed again then, if WWE itself doesn’t pull the plug within the next week. (Or I suppose an overarching mandate doesn’t make WWE’s and Tampa's decision for them.)

— Tony Maglio (@TonyMaglio) March 12, 2020

Hillsborough County Commissioner Les Miller also said that they are not making a decision yet and would wait to see if WWE would make their own decision. It seems very unlikely that Vince McMahon would pull the plug on WrestleMania unless he was forced to.

“Right now WrestleMania is out about three weeks,” Miller said. “We came to the conclusion that at this point, we don’t want to pull that plug. However we wanted to give it at least a week to see what was going to happen, if WWE was going to do anything at all. If they don’t, at that point, I will suggest that we do come together for an emergency meeting to discuss what we do at that particular point in time.” (h/t Wrestling Inc.)