WWE Reached Out To Orlando Following Pulse Night Club Shooting
Stephanie McMahon reportedly contacted the Mayor of Orlando to offer assistance.
WWE reached out to the city of Orlando following the horrific shooting at the Pulse night club earlier this month, according to recently released emails brought to light by WFTV in Orlando.
The shooting left 49 people dead and 53 injured, the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history.
According to the released emails, Stephanie McMahon reached out to the Mayor of Orlando (Buddy Dyer). She offered to "do everything we can to help support you and your efforts to rebuild the constitution of your great city."
Of course, WWE has strong ties to the city or Orlando. The company's performance center is located there, WWE NXT is taped at nearby Full Sail University, and WWE will bring next year's WrestleMania from the city. Outside of Stamford, CT, one could easily consider Orlando the company's second home and McMahon refered to it as such in her emails.
The city and WWE have apparently had conversations, but nobody is saying anything specific about what is in the works. Stephanie wrote in an email "We are already brainstorming ideas to help raise money for the OneOrlando fund, and I wanted to know if there was more we could be doing.”
Orlando's Mayor reportedly wrote back "“Thank you Stephanie for your kind words and your generosity. Someone will be in touch with you.”
Regardless of one's feelings on the WWE and their management, there's no denying the company does a lot of good for the disenfranchised and always bands together when a tragedy such as this happens.