{"id":64677,"date":"2020-03-12T19:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=64677"},"modified":"2020-03-12T19:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:36:14","slug":"aew-reschedules-shows-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/03\/12\/aew-reschedules-shows-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW Reschedules Shows Amid COVID-19 Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 (Corona virus) pandemic has affected yet another wrestling company. <strong>All Elite Wrestling<\/strong> has seen their next two weeks of television, including the special <strong><em>Blood &amp; Guts<\/em><\/strong> episode, officially changed. Here is AEW&#8217;s official statement on the upcoming episodes of <em><strong>AEW Dynamite<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWrestling\/status\/1238236202735742976?s=20<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fans who have already purchased tickets to the Rochester show will be offered a refund via the point of purchase, or have their original ticket valid for admission to the event on July 8. Additional details will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1238236206472802304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This show will be televised live on TNT on March 25, and be managed under a restricted attendance policy. The DYNAMITE show in Newark will be rescheduled for Wednesday, July 22, at the Prudential Center.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1238238233940672512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AEW has rescheduled next week&#8217;s show in Rochester to occur on July 8 according and will be live from Daily&#8217;s Place in Jacksonville, Florida. The show in Newark, NJ has also been rescheduled at the same venue for July 22.<\/p>\n<p>The Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, home of the scheduled AEW <em>Blood &amp; Guts<\/em>\u00a0show, released this statement as they have suspended all events through the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/PruCenter\/status\/1238198511428079617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1238198511428079617&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwrestlingnews.co%2Faew-news%2Fnew-jerseys-prudential-center-postpones-all-events-including-aew-dynamite-blood-and-guts%2F<\/p>\n<p>AEW joins a number of sports around the world and wrestling companies in canceling shows. WWE had to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/03\/12\/wwe-smackdown-performance-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reschedule Friday&#8217;s SmackDown<\/a> show that was set in Detroit to now be hosted in the Performance Center. WrestleMania 36 is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/03\/12\/wrestlemania-still-on-for-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">currently in flux with no guarantee<\/a> it goes on following the meetings in Tampa Bay, Florida today as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Blood &amp; Guts<\/em> was the main story behind the past two weeks of Dynamite. The planned match for the first-ever bout was to be between The Inner Circle and The Elite. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what the company does with the event now that they have no home for it as of this moment. With this being their strategy as of now, there is a good chance that Blood &amp; Guts will also go down inside Daily&#8217;s Place.<\/p>\n<p>Until the COVID-19 spread is controlled to some degree, expect more cancellations and unique shows in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<p>Stay tuned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for our coverage of the ongoing and changing news around the coronavirus and its effect on the wrestling industry as it develops. We are committed to keeping our readers informed and updated. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 (Corona virus) pandemic has affected yet another wrestling company. All Elite Wrestling has seen their next two weeks of television, including the special Blood &amp; Guts episode, officially changed. Here is AEW&#8217;s official statement on the upcoming episodes of AEW Dynamite: https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWrestling\/status\/1238236202735742976?s=20 Fans who have already purchased tickets to the Rochester show will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2921,"featured_media":64692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,2,6],"tags":[4133,5730,6248,423,396],"class_list":["post-64677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-aew","tag-aew-dynamite","tag-blood-guts","tag-the-elite","tag-wrestlemania"],"modified_by":"Brandi Wagner","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}