10 Rare Images From INSIDE WWE HQ

8. The Studio

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WWE are regularly complemented by visiting outsiders for their state-of-the-art facilities, but the Stamford set-up commands excellence in order to aid the travelling production truck. It's how the organisation have maintained such slick production values over the decades.

The various monitors and switches were - in simpler times - futuristic in comparison to some of the makeshift solutions used by rival groups. Occasionally placing the room front-of-house, the company used the HQ facilities to film 'Event Center' segments as well as weekly call-in/round-up show Livewire during the entirety of its 1996-2001 run.

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