More on no live WWE Raw on December 26
Added 2022-12-23 00:01:32 +0000 UTCThere won't be a new WWE Raw on December 26 with a Best Of show airing, but talent will still be on the road working live events.
Fightful had been inquiring about the status of the December 26 Raw since before the announcement, and spoke to some within the company following it. One talent indicated they hadn't been told the reason and said that they were wondering themselves as to why, before updating and noted that it was likely to give production workers some additional time off. Another WWE source confirmed this, mentioning that when WWE does live events, it requires far less people and even sometimes entire departments won't have to work those.
WWE will not have had and television tapings from December 20 through December 28 on the main roster, giving that group an extended period off. One top talent also followed up with Fightful, noting that it's probably a good move, even leading into John Cena's in ring return in December 30 and the first Raw of the year on January 2. That talent also says while they wish they had a little more holiday time off, they're reimbursed well to work December 26 and the week following.
Comments
4 and a half at most. The show without commercials Is 2 hours and 10 minutes. Just tape the matches without breaks and you're done in 90 minutes if not less. They've done It countless times.
Erik Ganzerli
2022-12-24 15:50:28 +0000 UTC6 hours? That’s a lot
thaddperkins
2022-12-24 06:38:53 +0000 UTCThat is definitely a comment made by someone brainwashed by late stage capitalism.
CSDX
2022-12-24 03:56:43 +0000 UTCWhy? Tons of us have to work on Christmas or the day after. It’s life. There’s incentive for them to do so, it’s not cruel or unusual punishment
ARose Lab
2022-12-23 15:53:24 +0000 UTCEh, even if they get reimbursed, I feel like having a show, let alone a live event, a day after Christmas is pretty cruddy to do.
CSDX
2022-12-23 03:41:06 +0000 UTCWondering if they had the talent come to NYC earlier than Monday due to the winter storm? I can imagine that is also going to cause a lot of travel issues and maybe they were afraid they would be working with a skeleton crew also?
Amber
2022-12-23 01:14:23 +0000 UTCO there is? I didn't know that
Joseph Altomare
2022-12-23 00:28:54 +0000 UTCThere’s a WWE LIVE event at MSG that day
ARose Lab
2022-12-23 00:27:54 +0000 UTCThe 26th is a best of show so the workers shouldn't be working that day
Joseph Altomare
2022-12-23 00:19:38 +0000 UTCAt least they’re getting paid extra for working the holidays
Cody Berntsen
2022-12-23 00:18:45 +0000 UTCNice to hear they give the production people time off but would have been nice if everyone got it off as well. I guess as long as they don’t mind working is what counts.
Daniel Lee
2022-12-23 00:12:45 +0000 UTCIf they wanted to give production people time off, fine, but that still doesn't explain why they didn't do a double taping on Monday when they've done it tons of times before.
Erik Ganzerli
2022-12-23 00:05:44 +0000 UTC
