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3. Live Event Rules And Revelations

While it’s well-known WWE is ultra-careful in planning out their TV content, it was interesting to learn guidelines for their non-televised house shows when someone anonymous uploaded a behind-the-scenes document dictating rules and regulations talent needed to abide by on live events in 2016.

The document, belonging to producer Jamie Noble and taken from a house show in New York, showed interesting titbits like referees should not be involved in finishes for matches to keep their credibility, wrestlers not being able to practice and cut promos on the fly unless approved by Michael Hayes beforehand, no piledrivers or low blows could be delivered, heel wrestlers needing to seek prior approval to cowardly walk around the ring when avoiding their opponents, and a detailed outline on what referees and wrestlers should do if someone gets legitimately hurt.

Other rigorous rules were ‘Please make sure all talent do not go up on the ropes during their entrances’ and in reference to punches being thrown back and forth between opponents ‘no one is to do the yea-boo stuff, except John Cena’.

It went a long way to show you even when the chairman and other powerful backstage figures aren’t around, Superstars have to be particularly careful about what they can and can’t do in the ring.