Former WWE, and current AEW referee Mike Chioda has recently revealed on AdFreeShows.com’s Monday Mailbag (subscription required) how hard it was to film matches at WWE during the pandemic.
Chioda stated:
“During COVID when I was actually working a little bit, they said tapings at WWE for one match would take like three hours. Cut. Do this. Cut” (H/T WrestlingNews.co)
He would also declared that almost every referee had to face the same issues:
“Charles Robinson and some of the guys when I met up with them for dinner at WrestleMania, Chad Patton and them guys were telling me it took 2, 3, 4 hours to do one match because they had to cut so many times, splice it, and do this,… It was a mess.”(H/T WrestlingNews.co)
Chioda worked for WWE since 1989, being the longest-tenured referee in WWE history, before being released on April 2020 as a result of the famous “budget cuts”.
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