WrestleMania 36 Moves to Audience-Free Performance Center Show Over Coronavirus Fears

By Ted Johnson

It's a strange time for wrestling. As the coronavirus outbreak continues to impact the entertainment industry, major wrestling promotions have had to reconfigure their approach to weekly shows while missing an essential element: live crowds.

It's been a terrible few weeks for the entire globe as the positive cases count for coronavirus increases by the day. People have been on lockdown mode as self-isolation and social distancing is the new lifestyle.

The show must go on!

With healthcare experts advising people to skip social events amid Coronavirus crisis, earlier this week WWE announced that its highly anticipated WrestleMania 36 will be taped audience free. In a statement, WWE mentioned that the event will no longer take place in Tampa Bay and will stream live on April 5 from WWE Performance Center in Orlando without a live audience. Reacting to the news, wrestling star Sasha Banks stated that it hurts to know that the fans won’t able to attend the event.

Earlier this week, it was announced that amid Coronavirus Pandemic, WWE has decided to go audience free for its upcoming WrestleMania 36 event, just like they did for the last week’s SmackDown show. In a statement, WWE mentioned that the event will no longer take place in Tampa Bay and will stream live on April 5 from WWE Performance Center in Orlando without a live audience. According to the latest report, the organisers have now decided that WrestleMania 36 is too big for just one night.

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It's been a rough couple of weeks for the entertainment industry due to the coronavirus outbreak taking over the globe! In order for preventive measures, music concerts and sporting events are being cancelled or delayed. There were rumours of Wrestlemania 36 being cancelled but WWE made the decision to shift the venue from Tampa Bay's Raymond James Stadium to the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

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After days of going back and forth between delaying or continuing on with Wrestlemania 36 (with the recent coronavirus outbreak), which was scheduled for April 5, 2020, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay Area, WWE finally came to a decision! WWE's statement on Wrestlemania 36 reads as, "In coordination with local partners and government officials, WrestleMania and all related events in Tampa Bay will not take place.

Sports entertainment powerhouse World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on Monday announced that WrestleMania 36 won’t take place at a big stadium as planned, but be moved to its Performance Center trainings facility in Orlando due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company, led by CEO Vince McMahon, has been understood to be in regular touch with city officials from Tampa, Florida, where the big annual event was due to take place April 5.

Whoops

After weeks of speculations, WWE has announced that the highly anticipated WrestleMania 36 event will not take place at Raymond James Stadium as scheduled. While the event will still take place on April 5, amid the Coronavirus pandemic WWE has decided to go audience free, just like they did for the last week’s SmackDown show.

The WWE has announced that Wrestlemania 36 will still take place next month, though it will happen without an audience amid the coronavirus outbreak.

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