WWE Wrestlemania 36: What are the rules of Boneyard Match?

Archie Blade | 01/04/2020
WWE Wrestlemania 36 What are the rules of Boneyard Match

WWE Wrestlemania 36: What are the rules of Boneyard Match set to take place between the Undertaker and AJ Styles at the showcase of the immortals?

The WWE is set to go ahead with Wrestlemania, their biggest show of the year, despite the coronavirus pandemic. The company aim to combat the crisis by performing at different locations without an audience to watch the action live.

While a majority of the matches will emanate from the performance centre, there are a few matches that will be filmed at various locations. One of the matches seems to be the highly anticipated match between the Undertaker and AJ Styles.

However, there has been a little confusion regarding the stipulation of the match.

The ‘Boneyard match’ has left fans scratching their heads as to what are the rules of the match and how does one win such a match. Fortunately, for the fans, AJ Styles explained the rules recently during a live stream on Mixer.

WWE Wrestlemania 36: What are the rules of Boneyard Match?

“Let me just say this about The Undertaker and AJ Styles,” Styles said. “I feel like AJ Styles has got this guy right where he wants him.

‘He has baited him into a match that he can’t win, and I’m talking about The Undertaker can’t win, and we’re talking about a Boneyard Match, which is in a graveyard, which is wide open. Anything can happen.

 ‘Think about that.

‘AJ Styles is the bad guy. He doesn’t play fair. There’s that, a pretty smart play by AJ Styles if I do say so myself.

“So, let me make myself clear on the Boneyard Match — a Boneyard Match means anything can happen. It’s in a graveyard and there will be a grave. Does that kind of put it into perspective? There will be a hole.”

When pointed out that the match was literally a buried alive match, a stipulation they’ve used in the past, Styles explained why they chose the name.

“There’s a reason why I think it’s called a Boneyard Match. Because we didn’t want to say cemetery or a graveyard. You know, everything that’s going on, it sucks. Boneyard is slang for graveyard, it really is.”

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Archie Blade

Archie is a WWE and UFC Editor/Author at the SportsRush. Like most combat sports enthusiasts, his passion for watching people fight began with WWE when he witnessed a young Brock Lesnar massacre Hulk Hogan back in 2002. This very passion soon branched out to boxing and mixed martial arts. Over the years he fell in love with the theatrics that preceded the bell and the poetic carnage that followed after. Each bruise a story to tell, each wound a song of struggle, his greatest desire is to be there to witness it all. His favorite wrestler is Shawn Michaels and he believes that GSP is the greatest to ever step foot inside the octagon. Apart from wrestling, he is also fond of poetry and music.

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