Posted by Cesar Moya under Nerd News

Wrestling, is a show that requires an audience. Without the live audience buying the story featured in the ring, forfeits a part of its essence.

But in the wake of the coronavirus contingency, WWE will run a fanless television shows from its training center in the city of Orlando, which will also host the upcoming Wrestlemania. The show will only be transmitted through the streaming on the WWE Network and PPV channels.

In that scenario, the outcome of everything they are committing to is relatively unusual. In the past, in extraordinary situations such as was the fight between The Rock and Mankind during the Super Bowl halftime show, the company conducted empty arena matches.

This is now becoming the norm. One that generates fighting presentations that, although involve very talented people, lack the atmosphere. And that definitely does not represent good news for what will be done at Wrestlemania, probably the exhibition of the year that requires the most live emotional excitement.

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The best example is what happened last Friday on Smackdown, in an interaction between John Cena and Bray Wyatt, who will have a fight at Wrestlemania.

Or what happened this Monday, on the RAW show, with Edge challenging Randy Orton to a Last Man Standing match. In one way or another, it deepens the rivalry. But with the lack of spectators, you feel the emptiness that comes with non-existent cheers or boos.

WWE has always had the protocol that no matter what happens, the show must go on. They have done so even after casualties from fighters, snow storms that have crippled the country and now with the coronavirus.

Furthermore, faced with the shutdown of sports leagues such as the NBA, Vince McMahon’s company has an opportunity to deliver live content without the competition from others that generally have a larger audience. This is a shot that WWE will surely take.

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But definitely the crisis that the coronavirus has generated has opened a very peculiar opportunity to an element of wrestling that has scarcely been seen. However, fighters like Rey Mysterio have already declared that they will make “an effort to give memorable moments” to the audience, “especially in these difficult times that we are all experiencing.”

And without that audience, what is most highlighted is the undertaking of the fighters, either to promote wrestling, or to connect with an audience that is live and is now exclusively on the other side of the screen.

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