Man... what a year it's been. On the one hand, AEW has evolved to be a legitimate contender for a slice of that American wrestling marker, the likes of which we haven't seen in nearly 20 years. They have the talent, the booking, the storylines (okay, the women's division still needs some work) and everything has been going on all cylinders.
On the other hand.... we're in a middle of a pandemic.
And yet bizarrely, the show goes on.
AEW had managed to tape enough episodes to continue until what is estimated to be mid-May. Whether they will continue beyond that point is anyone's guess. Still, with the Florida governor declaring wrestling to be an essential business (!!!), who knows if AEW decides to take up that opportunity.
ANYWAYS, here are our matches for tonight:
Enjoy them while they last. And for the wrestlers out there: stay safe.
EDIT: The current plan for May 2020
On the other hand.... we're in a middle of a pandemic.
And yet bizarrely, the show goes on.
AEW had managed to tape enough episodes to continue until what is estimated to be mid-May. Whether they will continue beyond that point is anyone's guess. Still, with the Florida governor declaring wrestling to be an essential business (!!!), who knows if AEW decides to take up that opportunity.
ANYWAYS, here are our matches for tonight:
Enjoy them while they last. And for the wrestlers out there: stay safe.
EDIT: The current plan for May 2020
For AEW, the 5/6 show will go live. The show that will air on 5/13 will be taped the next day most likely, but it'll be taped either on 5/6 or 5/7 either way. They will return on 5/20 and then the crew will stay in Jacksonville from 5/20 to 5/27, doing the 5/20 Dynamite, the 5/23 PPV show and the 5/27 Dynamite show. After that, we'll see what happens. The people who live in Tampa, Orlando and Atlanta, which is a decent amount of people, will likely go home between tapings but the fly-ins are expected to stay from 5/20 to 5/27 in Jacksonville.
For the last tapings, anyone who didn't want to be there had that option, plus people in hard-hit places were not brought in, as well as older people. For 5/6, they asked people in hard-hit places like New York and the state of Washington in particular to quarantine for two weeks, which most started doing last week. A much larger talent pool will be used going forward to build the PPV show. Those who don't want to be there don't have to be, and the talent based outside the U.S. won't be able to be on these shows, most notably most of the Japanese women (Hikaru Shida and I believe Riho live in Florida) and other international stars like Bea Priestley, Jamie Hayter, Pac and Pentagon Jr.
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