COVID-19 lockdown couldn’t keep WWE on the ropes. WWE achieved 100% virtual attendance for its new WWE ThunderDome interactive events held in arenas throughout Florida. State-of-the-art sets, video boards, pyrotechnics, lasers, cutting-edge graphics and drone cameras created the spectacle of the live matches, head-locking nearly one million people into registering for the events. Seventy percent of those virtual fans returned multiple times. Fans “appeared” in the arenas via live video on massive LED boards. Appearances by Matthew McConaughey and Grammy Award winner Bad Bunny also jumped up the mix. More than 50 primetime episodes of “Monday Night Raw” and” Friday Night SmackDown” have filmed live in the WWE ThunderDome.
