7 Times WWE Was Plunged Into Chaos
1. The Current Malady Malarkey
WWE have for the longest time championed the fact that, unlike the real sports it vyes for television supremacy against, they have no off-season. 365 days a year - 366 during a leap year - the company's talent travel the length and breadth of America and the rest of the world to entertain, with Raw and SmackDown guaranteed fixtures come rain or shine.
In the current, chaotic climate in which we all find ourselves, that admirably, if a little obdurately, remains the case. No circumstance throughout WWE's lifespan has threatened not just it, but the cultural and social function of the entire world quite like 2020's medical situation, yet the company remain committed to delivering product, albeit entirely behind closed doors.
WrestleMania 36, previously a traditional stadium show in front of tens of thousands of fervent fans, is now to be spread across a weekend, in isolation. NXT's format has dramatically altered to reflect the new reality. It's working, for now, but it seems inevitable that, as soon as the talent or the staff become personally affected - and it will happen - then everything will be off.
WWE's - and wrestling's - off-season will finally come. For all our quotidian grumbles about booking, rating wars and a whole host of things which don't really matter in the wider scheme, we love this great sport, and boy will we miss it when it's gone.