WWE Talent Test Positive for COVID-19, AEW Talent Drop From Tapings Over COVID Contact

WWE and AEW have made the news due to stories involving their wrestlers and COVID-19.

Ryan Satin of Pro Wrestling Sheet reports “multiple people in WWE who have been at the Performance Center tested positive for COVID-19 this week, including in-ring talent.”

Specifics on which WWE superstar(s) have tested positive hasn’t been revealed, but this news follows reports last week of a “developmental talent” testing positive for COVID-19. At the time of publishing, WWE has not released a statement regarding these new reports.

AEW, meanwhile, has announced two members of their roster, QT Marshall and AEW World Champion Jon Moxley, will not be appearing on tonight’s episode of Dynamite on TNT due to coming into contact with non-wrestling personnel who have since tested positive for COVID-19.

President and CEO of AEW Tony Khan shared via

Since last week’s show, in his everyday life, QT had brief contact with a non-wrestling acquaintance who since tested positive for COVID-19. Rather than risk bringing QT to our test site, our doc asked him to stay home & take a COVID test back in GA to protect the rest of us here https://t.co/eeN8VmF2nP

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) June 24, 2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter, “Since last week’s show, in his everyday life, QT had brief contact with a non-wrestling acquaintance who since tested positive for COVID-19. Rather than risk bringing QT to our test site, our doc asked him to stay home & take a COVID test back in GA to protect the rest of us here.”

Khan followed that up with another

Recently @JonMoxley had contact with someone who had contact with someone who has COVID-19. Mox did the right thing & warned us. Doc asked him to stay home & get tested to protect us here at our test site. Cage will be in action tonight on #AEWDynamite ahead of their title fight pic.twitter.com/TWbskkzU2Z

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) June 24, 2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet saying, “Recently, Jon Moxley had contact with someone who had contact with someone who has COVID-19. Mox did the right thing & warned us. Doc asked him to stay home & get tested to protect us here at our test site. [Brian] Cage will be in action tonight on ‘AEW Dynamite’ ahead of their title fight.”

Khan

Jon Moxley can get slammed on a car, crawl through tacks & fall through the stage, but it’s every bit as cool that he came forward & told us he’d had secondhand exposure to COVID. We test everyone here at #AEWDynamite, but Jon protected everyone onsite like the great champ he is

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) June 24, 2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concluded, “Jon Moxley can get slammed on a car, crawl through tacks & fall through the stage, but it’s every bit as cool that he came forward & told us he’d had secondhand exposure to COVID. We test everyone here at ‘AEW Dynamite,’ but Jon protected everyone onsite like the great champ he is.”

WrestleMania: 10 Interesting Facts About ‘The Showcase of the Immortals’

• Total attendance at WrestleMania.

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  Overall, a combined 1,956,981 fans have attended WrestleManias 1-38.

• Most losses at WrestleMania.

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  Triple H may be one of the most prolific wrestlers in WWE history, but he also has the notorious honor of having the most losses at WrestleMania with 13. Yikes!

• Shortest match in WrestleMania history.

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  The shortest WrestleMania match happened in recent history at WrestleMania 32 when The Rock squashed Erick Rowan in just six seconds.
• Longest match in WrestleMania history.

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  The legendary iron man match between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII still holds the record for longest WrestleMania match clocking in at one hour, one minute and 52 seconds.

• “Macho Man” Randy Savage has the record for most WrestleMania wins in a single night.

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  OH, YEAH! WrestleMania 4 featured a 14-man tournament for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Savage would end up winning the title defeating Butch Reed, Greg Valentine, One Man Gang, and “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase.

• WrestleMania 28 holds the record for most PPV buys.

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  The WrestleMania that billed the "once in a lifetime" match between The Rock and John Cena saw 1,217,000 PPV buys, which is the most PPV buys for a single WrestleMania ever. Of course, that “once in a lifetime” tag wasn’t exactly true, and The Rock vs. John Cena would headline WrestleMania 29.
• WrestleMania 2 is the only WrestleMania to happen on a weekday.

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  Up until WrestleMania 36, which saw the event split into a two-night affair, WrestleMania 2 was the only WrestleMania to not take place on a Sunday. Instead, it took place on Monday, April 7, 1986.

• Run-DMC provided a WrestleMania first.

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  The iconic rap group was the first act to ever perform at WrestleMania outside of the singing of the National Anthem and “America the Beautiful” when they performed “WrestleMania Rap” at WrestleMania 5. Many other acts have performed at WrestleMania since including Flo Rida, Diddy and Motorhead.

• WrestleMania 35 was the first WrestleMania to be headlined by women.

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  It took over three decades for women to headline “The Showcase of Immortals,” but it finally happened in WrestleMania 35 when Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey faced off in a Winner Takes All Triple Threat match for the WWE Raw Women's Championship and the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship.
• WrestleMania almost wasn’t WrestleMania

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  Legendary WWE Hall of Fame ring announcer Howard Finkel is credited with coining the name “WrestleMania,” but before landing on that perfect name, Vince McMahon wanted to call his annual showcase “The Colossal Tussle.”