May 4, 2020 Observer Newsletter: Florida and UFC/WWE/AEW, more news
Submitted by dave on Thu, 2020-04-30 19:30
Florida has become the new haven for the risk takers in sports who are considered essential services in that state.
WWE this past week taped all its television through 5/11 at the Performance Center in Orlando.
UFC and AEW will be taping nearly on top of each other, with UFC airing live shows on 5/9, 5/13 and 5/16 from the Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, while AEW has shows scheduled less than a mile away at Daily’s Place on 5/6, 5/7 (taped for 5/13), 5/20, 5/23 and 5/27. UFC will be doing a show on 5/23, but Dana White said that would not be in Florida. That show will go head-to-head with AEW’s Double or Nothing PPV, but not from the same location.
Going head-to-head really doesn’t matter from a live standpoint since there will be no fans at either event, however UFC will go head-to-head in some form on 5/13 with both AEW and NXT, and on 5/23, they will be head-to-head as well on either streaming vs. PPV.
