WWE ThunderDome Debut 8/21/2020

WWE moved its tapings from the WWE Performance Center – which is essentially a glorified gym for WWE superstars – to the Amway Center (also in Orlando). This is a much bigger arena, so it will simply give superstars more room to be able to spread out and have more of their own space. The virtual experience with fans is also extremely cool. WWE took the idea from the NBA to project people from home in front of the cameras on their computer screens and then projecting those images into the stands for a live, engaged audience. WWE is taking that idea a step further by doing this on a much bigger scale in a larger arena. This will hopefully usher in a new era of pandemic programming.

WWE’s next potential step with this could be to have fans compete to see who has the best background at home, and the winner could be projected onto the largest screen in the arena on the Jumbotron. Another possibility is that the winning fan could get a special discount on WWEshop.com. These are a few ideas that could make the experience even more interactive for the WWE universe.

Vince McMahon, Shane McMahon, Bruce Prichard, and everyone else involved with WWE creative has done an excellent job of generating exciting storylines between WrestleMania 36 and SummerSlam 2020. In the last several weeks, extremely compelling cliffhangers at the end of each episode of WWE TV have kept the universe tuning the following week to see what happens.

Several superstars have conceivable scenarios right now where their respective characters could undergo a heel or babyface turn at the second biggest show of the year to shift the direction of their character.

Big E’s new perspective on not being named “The Guy” – WWE Superstar Sagas

Big E seems to have a great amount of perspective on the idea of WWE choosing Roman Reigns back in 2014-15 to lead the company going forward. As the event happened, Big E took it in and internalized it. Maybe he came up with the idea that, “I was not ready for that level of responsibility – to put a company on my back and carry it on my shoulders.”

We could all learn something from this – to respond rather than react to events in our life. Instead, we could maybe internalize them and derive new meaning from them that serves us best. Any given event in life has essentially no fundamental meaning other than the meaning we give it. The event has the importance a person decides to give it in other words. Back to Big E – his perspective on his situation back about five or six years ago is very similar to Drew McIntyre’s perspective regarding being fired around the same point in time and having McIntyre’s situation come full circle with him being crowned WWE Champion at WrestleMania 36.

Everything definitely comes full circle now as Big E is getting his hard-earned singles push after well over five years of winning over the WWE universe with The New Day (the group started teaming together back in November 2014). Teaming together with this group helped E to begin feeling comfortable showing his authentic self for the WWE universe to see and be able to connect with. He has now earned several victories in a row against The Miz, John Morrison and now Sheamus.