Pro wrestling 'essential' under Florida governor's order

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Mike Schneider, Associated Press Updated 5:58 pm CDT, Tuesday, April 14, 2020

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Body slams and pile drives can go on in the Sunshine State.

With Florida under a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, there's one business deemed essential by Florida's governor that is raising some eyebrows: pro wrestling.

Florida's top emergency official last week amended Gov. Ron DeSantis' stay-at-home order which was issued at the start of the month. Pro sports were added to a list of essential businesses allowed to stay open in an April 9 memorandum to include “employees at a professional sports and media production with a national audience ... only if the location is closed to the general public.”

The amendment allows World Wrestling Entertainment, run by CEO Vince McMahon in metro Orlando, to continue putting on shows — without fans.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Pro-wrestling-essential-under-Florida-15200327.php

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'essential'



More essential.

[ananda]

1. Looks like some money exchanged hands.

Everything's for sale with death cult Reeps.

[keithbvadu2]

2. 'Donations'

[niyad]

3. I was going to ask if the idiot owns a wrestler.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. The Grim Reaperpublicon Party. . . . nt

[Aristus]

4. Yeah. Without professional wrestling and its fans, wouldn't Jacksonville

just be a wide place in the road?

[SharonAnn]

5. From 2016 - WWE Owner to be Small Business Administrator

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/12/07/linda-mcmahon-wife-of-wwe-billionaire-vincent-mcmahon-is-trumps-pick-to-head-his-small-business-administration/#3007623a1750

[RockRaven]

6. It's not that *pro-wrestling* is essential, it's that *a Trump Cabinet official's company* is...

to DeFuckwit, anyway.

[SharonAnn]

7. Linda McMahon Joined Trumpt Reelection team one year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_McMahon

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Perhaps without fans the fakeness will be even more evident. . . . nt

[Haggis for Breakfast]

12. Like that "sermon" by Kenneth Copeland.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Shoot DeSantis out of a cannon (image #3). That would solve most of it..

[muntrv]

11. Pile drive Desantis.

[ripcord]

13. Everything is essential

Even recreational cannabis.

[sakabatou]

14. *facedesk*

[oldsoftie]

15. They've been doing shows with no fans for some weeks now.

Empty facility; only the ref & wrestlers near each other. I wonder what screening they're doing? Sanitizing the ring area between matches? Maybe they're keeping everyone who is going to perform quarantined together prior to filming the matches? They have an entire facility down there, so its possible.
if they manage to go for some time with no one testing positive, we may need to look at WHATEVER it is they were doing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. First the circuses, then, if you plead enough, the bread

Caligula has spoken.