WWE WrestleMania 2020 Results: Edge, Goldberg and the Biggest Winners and Losers

WrestleMania 36 was wholly unlike any other presentation in the long and storied history of WWE, which accomplished one of its greatest achievements across Saturday and Sunday night en route to being the biggest winner of its own annual showcase.

A sports-entertainment spectacle forced indoors, in front of no fans, The Show of Shows could have proved a catastrophic failure for a company in the same boat of uncertainty the world finds itself in. 

But it did not. 

Instead, WWE banded together to make the most of unfavorable conditions and provided its fans with an eclectic show that featured matches and moments that will live on for a lifetime. 

Which competitors joined WWE as undisputed winners of the event, and who were not so lucky?

Winner: Undertaker

Prior to this year's event, Undertaker heard it all from the critics: You're too old; you're a shell of your former self; just retire already; go home, you're done. 

Returning to his American Badass persona and embracing the Boneyard Match gimmick handed to him and AJ Styles, he silenced his doubters by turning in a brilliant performance in a cinematically styled masterpiece of a match unlike any we have seen before.

With the power of editing to play with, and a unique setting full of fresh new toys to pique his interest, Big Evil rediscovered himself and turned in his best performance in a match since his WrestleMania 29 classic with CM Punk.

He needed it, too.

The Phenom's reputation was threatening to descend into the dark abyss of mediocrity after a few years of misses. This hit, though, and presented The Deadman a whole new way to tell his stories while continuing to kick ass, all without taxing his body quite so much.

Thanks to the critical success of his Boneyard Match with Styles, Undertaker may well have bought himself a few more years in an industry he isn't finished with.

Loser: King Corbin

King Corbin entered 2020 with a ton of momentum on his side.

He worked alongside Roman Reigns in high-profile TV angles and PPV matches and looked like a heel capable of carrying the blue brand. He was SmackDown's most hated villain around whom entire stories could be built.

Saturday night, he lost one of the worst matches on the entire card to Elias, who had not wrestled a singles pay-per-view match in over a year.

It was a major setback for a guy whose star burned as brightly as anyone's just a few months back but now appears poised to wallow in uncertainty and mediocrity.

Either that or he'll continue his lackluster feud with the underwritten Elias.

Winner: Becky Lynch

Becky Lynch is still the biggest full-time star on the WWE roster, and that was proved by the manner in which WWE presented her at WrestleMania 36.

Prominently featured in the night's opening video package—set to AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"—she is actually the last Superstar featured in that video, a spot that history suggests is significant when gauging who the company sees as its stars.

From there, The Man successfully defended her Raw Women's Championship against Shayna Baszler in a match that everyone and their mothers were absolutely certain she was going to lose. Instead, she pulled a page right out of Bret Hart's (or Kairi Sane's, for the younger fans out there) playbook by countering The Queen of Spades' choke into a rollup

The match was a physical and hard-hitting affair that was everything it needed to be given the intense backstory, and it left the door open for a rematch while presenting a smarter, more cerebral champion.

And for the second year in a row, Lynch caught one of the baddest women on the planet napping and took advantage of it for the win.

Loser: Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar is one of those blockbuster performers who was made for the big stages and bright lights. Without the roar of the crowd accompanying his entrance, and the pomp and circumstance of a typical WWE pay-per-view event, he lost part of the aura that defines him.

Aside from the excellent video package put together by the WWE Production Team, Lesnar felt like just another Superstar on the roster.

That is a phrase rarely uttered in relation to The Beast Incarnate, nor should it be. As the biggest box office attraction in WWE, he should be protected. Unfortunately, circumstances did not permit it, and the result was one of the most lackluster elements of an otherwise superb WrestleMania.

It was through no real fault of his own. His style–and the type of matches he works—is most effective with a raucous crowd to feed off of.

Winner: Edge

Edge and Randy Orton's Last Man Standing Match Sunday night was a 35-minute marathon that could have been reduced to 20 and still had the same effect. While the timing hurt the contest's overall quality significantly, it did not take away from the stellar performance produced by the returning 2012 Hall of Famer.

The Rated R Superstar's first WrestleMania match in nine years saw him pour his emotions into his performance. Late in the match, his body wracked with pain, and he shook his fingers constantly to check if he had feeling in them after Orton spent the entire match targeting his neck.

From there, he shed tears over the violent lengths he was driven to, then to sympathy and regret over the beating he dished out to a man who was once his best friend.

Edge elevated what was an OK, yet overly long, match simply by giving fans something they could sink their teeth into and invest in. They could feel the dilemma he found himself in. They could simultaneously feel what it would be like if they were in that situation, faced with putting an end to the match and rivalry while still caring deeply for a friend he tried repeatedly to help.

It was stellar work from a star who walked right back in the door and proved why his name sits among the other icons in the industry as a WWE Hall of Famer.

Loser: Goldberg

Without the bells and whistles of his iconic, pyro-filled entrance, there is nothing to Goldberg in 2020.

The iconic star and WWE Hall of Famer struggled Saturday in his two-minute match against Braun Strowman for the Universal Championship, appearing blown up 20 seconds into the match as he huffed and puffed for air. Add to it the fact that he has become a one-trick pony, afraid to expand his move set beyond the spear and Jackhammer at this point, and you have a Superstar who isn't really all that super anymore.

He is a mortal, and plain 53-year-old Goldberg isn't a guy fans are going to have an interest in seeing.

They want the man, the myth and the legend, but all he can conceivably give fans beyond the entrance is a spear or Jackhammer to set up the win.

They got none of the three at WrestleMania as he found himself squashed on the grand stage and had his future in the industry questioned by those who knew he probably should have stayed home.

Winner: Rhea Ripley

Rhea Ripley entered WrestleMania as the current NXT women's champion, but there was still a question as to whether she would be able to perform up to the moment against a wrestler in Charlotte Flair who has routinely made the event her own personal showcase.

In the opening match of Sunday's card, Ripley answered with a resounding "yes!"

The Aussie rose to the occasion, turning in a hard-hitting and intense performance in which she dealt out punishment to The Queen but also sold extremely well when the time came for it. Hobbled by a knee injury, she was forced to fight from underneath, something she did throughout the match.

Unfortunately, she had no choice but to tap out when Flair segued into the Figure Eight, inflicting extreme pain.

Though she lost her title, Ripley won the respect of fans who now see her as the star and big-time performer that she is. Even in defeat, she left WrestleMania riding a wave of momentum that should help carry her through the rest of the year, as well as whatever her rivalry looks like with Flair from here on out.