We all love wrestling here at WrestleZone. It would be weird if we didn’t. However, should wrestling continue in these times of global uncertainty and pandemic shutdowns? One WWE Hall of Famer thinks it shouldn’t. Speaking with The Wrestling Inc Daily Podcast, current AEW manager Jake “The Snake” Roberts revealed that he was in quarantine after attending a recent AEW Dynamite taping.
I’m quarantined. I’m quarantined in here. I was living with Dallas [DDP]. Whenever all this started, Dallas was one of the first people to say, ‘Hey man, I’m locking down and if you leave, you can’t come back.’ Well, AEW wanted me to come out so, what’d I do? I went and did [it] but then I couldn’t go back to Dallas’ house because he had a baby in the house and nobody needs to get sick, especially not a baby, and he took the hard line and said, ‘Dude if you leave, you can’t come back.’ I’m like, ‘Well, I gotta do this Dallas. It’s for AEW and I wanna help these guys.’ So, now I’m paying for it brother.
Because of his current situation, Jake has a different opinion than those on top of the two biggest wrestling organizations in the US. If it was up to Jake, we’d be going through a wrestling hiatus.
Yes, I think it should happen. I really do man. We gotta buckle down, and if you look on the television and still see live wrestling then that tells me people aren’t buckling down. As much as I hate it, we gotta do what’s smart and I’m not a doctor or anything but that’s all I hear on television. We got to go home. Just go home and stay there until this sh*t’s gone and it sounds to me like AEW is doing that too. The last taping they did, I know they taped a lot of matches so they [did] several weeks of shows and it seems that’s what they were kind of doing too. Trying to get guys to go home and taking care of business, keeping everybody safe.
WWE would likely be fine to run older content during a pause in tapings, but AEW could struggle due to their relatively recent creation. Neither company seems willing to put a hold on operations either way, but it could still be a situation they face down the line.
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Transcription courtesy of PostWrestling
