With all sports on hold due to the coronavirus, you had two options if you wanted to watch live TV on Monday night: the news and WWE.
Yes, WWE is still airing Raw and SmackDown as the world hunkers down. But instead of playing to packed arenas around the country, the company moved all of its shows to its Orlando training facility, the WWE Performance Center, where they’re being filmed in front of nobody. Even WrestleMania on April 5 won’t have any fans.
It’s a truly surreal sight to behold. The typically over-the-top world of professional wrestling is suddenly turned into a black-box theatre production.