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Revealed: How WWE Plans To Bring Back Audience For Raw And Smackdown. US Government has been allowing to open up their states, with the hope that coronavirus pandemic will slow down. Florida is also opening up its state which could allow fans to return to pro-wrestling events, soon.

Governor Ron DeSantis hinted that their new policy will allow 25% of an arena to be filled when live shows for fans, returns from June or July onwards.

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Revealed: How WWE Plans To Bring Back Audience For Raw And Smackdown

It’s a piece of bright news where fans can now hope to witness SummerSlam in a bigger way unlike the sans audience shows. Ringsidenews.com has reported that as of last week, WWE is yet to make any internal announcements about bringing fans back for their television tapings.

At this point, they will be continuing with the closed-set taping at an empty Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. As reported earlier, the taping schedule will be intact until July 1.

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WWE has been recording two weeks’ of programming in a single week, at a time. Next week’s episodes of Raw, SmackDown and NXT have already been finished. With that being said, even if the company wants to bring fans back, right away, it wouldn’t be on television, for weeks.

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According to the new policy taken by Florida Government, they might be allowed to bring in 50 to 75 fans, as per their claim of having the WWE Performance Center’s capacity.

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Vince McMahon has previously changed his mind on hosting TV tapings, on several occasions. At first, the tape delay broadcasts continued for weeks before he altered the principle following WrestleMania 36.

He decided to go live on TV hoping to get more viewers. But then again the coronavirus outbreak forced him to change the rule and go back to taped TV broadcasts from mid-April which will be intact until July.

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It’s unknown at this point if Money In The Bank will be filmed live from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando. The two Money In The Bank ladder matches have been pre-taped from WWE’s Stamford headquarters and it will be broadcasted on delay.

If the latest reports are any indications then at least a few matches will go down, live from the PC. The next listed taping for WWE will take place is the post Money In The Bank episode of Raw on May 11th.

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