Orange County mayor Jerry Demings announced that World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) will now be considered an "essential business" in Florida. The company will therefore be allowed to resume airing live shows, broadcast from their training facility in Orlando.
Although the venture was considered a non-essential business under stay-at-home orders, the governor of the state, Ron DeSantis, decided to reverse that decision earlier this week. DeSantis' reasoning? An executive order defining employees in professional sports and media productions with a national audience as essential services so long as their arenas remain closed to the public.
One change will therefore remain in place: all matches will be taped without an audience. As for production, the bare minimum amount of staff members will be allowed to work.
For the past few weeks, the WWE has been airing pre-taped programs, a fact that will now change as audiences gear up for Monday night Raw and Friday's SmackDown. Will the entire country slowly turn into die-hard wrestling fans?
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