Never in the history of the WWE, the company went through a so-called break. Starting from the 90s for Raw and early 2000s on SmackDown, the weekly programming schedule never stopped as WWE has to serve the lucrative TV deals with their broadcasting partners. But the Coronavirus pandemic might finally force WWE to take a break from taping shows.
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As Coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the United States increasing the death toll, states are shutting down their usual lifestyle and Florida appeared to be one of them from where WWE was operating their filming schedule. Previously, Orange County where the WWE Performance Center was situated fell under the stay-home mandate which remains active until April 9th.
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But on April 1st, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis issued the stay-at-home order for the entire state as they look to slow down the COVID-19 outbreak. This has to impact to WWE and their rival AEW’s schedules as they both operate filmings from this state.
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These two brands already have significantly modified tapings over the past several weeks due to the pandemic. There’s no surety on when they can again start filming in Florida.
This fuelled up the speculations on WWE possibly moving towards taking a break as the WWE crews can’t operate around the WWE Performance Center, according to Wrestlevotes. Rumors were already there that if the state of Florida issued the stay-at-home order, then WWE would re-consider taking time-off after WrestleMania 36, which airs this weekend over two nights in a taped format. Nothing is confirmed at this point as things have “to be determined” considering how the situation progresses.
If WWE does move with the rumored break from filming at the WWE Performance Center then some parts from WrestleMania 36 have to be edited out.
It was already reported that the post-WrestleMania 36 edition of RAW for April 6 has already been taped along with the April 8 edition of WWE NXT. The belief was that the April 10 SmackDown episode on FOX would air live from the PC, but no confirmation has been received regarding that.
