10 Best Things That Ever Happened During Wrestling Commercial Breaks
6. Wrestlers Stop Working During A Pandemic
...was almost never a headline in 2020.
Time won't be kind to this specific period from the pandemic, not that the workers were at all to blame for doing a job when they were asked to. The early days were filled with confusion, uncertainty, and not entirely knowing what we didn't even know.
What we all knew from fairly early on into the first edition of SmackDown to emanate from the Performance Center was that wrestling was going to absolutely reek without the crowd to elevate the action.
Bayley, Sasha Banks, Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross made history by opening the show (and in the former pair's case, foreshadow how vital they'd be to WWE's entire year), but weren't aware that the bump-break they were permitted to take during the ads would air somewhere in the world. At least not until the footage appeared on Twitter during the broadcast and taught the company one of several lessons they'd have to learn very quickly as everything - everything - changed for the worst.