I have a column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review every Monday and Friday. Today’s looks at the recent security issues WWE’s had.
How would you improve WWE security? Let’s ask that in the debates of politicians fighting it out to be their party’s candidate for the next President of the United States.
In the past month, there has been a noticeable increase in security breaches at WWE events. A fan tossed a replica Money in the Bank briefcase into the ring, hitting Roman Reigns on the head in British Columbia. A fan in Rhode Island jumped the barricade, was within a foot of Dean Ambrose and allegedly attempted to stab him. This past week in Baltimore, a fan jumped the railing to brashly walk down the aisle with Seth Rollins and stood at ringside for several seconds before security and officials could apprehend him.
WWE is at a great disadvantage. It’s 15,000 people against a few WWE security officers, wrestlers and officials. There’s half of an arena length of places where fans can enter the staging or ringside area as evidenced by the recent breaches. The most recent involving Rollins was the most successful because the fan jumped the railing near the stage in an area harder to see and away from where security is posted at ringside.
Perhaps the greatest disadvantage is it’s 2015. If this were 30 years ago, if you jumped the barricade, you had better hope security got to you before a wrestler. That’s a huge slap of disrespect to them to step into their ring. Remember, there was a time when promoters would fire a wrestler if the wrestler lost a bar fight to some local.
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