March 13. Wrestling reacting to Corona Virus Report

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NXT WEEKEND SHOWS CANCELED, MLW STILL RUNNING FRIDAY, MORE POSTPONEMENTS
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The wrestling world continues to react to the coronavirus outbreak and the large gathering bans happening around the United States.

NXT

Friday's show in Venice, Florida, was canceled as Sarasota County canceled all public events. That news was not formally announced by their or WWE's Twitter account as of this writing.
Saturday's show in Daytona, Florida, at the Midtown Cultural & Educational Center was also canceled by the mayor. However, you can still buy tickets on Ticketmaster as of this wriing, nor has WWE or NXT officially announced it.
MLW

Their Friday Fusion TV taping with AAA in Tijuana, Mexico, is moving forward as planned even though they haven't acknowledged as such on social media or to requests for comment. However, PWInsider's Mike Johnson is reporting Court Bauer will not be in attendance as he is reportedly "in the middle of negotiating what we are told is "high level TV talks" and has been back and forth between LA and NYC working on a deal." Konnan and Mr. Saint Laurent will be running the show tonight which will cover weeks of TV.
Other Shows

The Bullet Club Beach Party set for Mania week in Tampa, FL, has been canceled.
The WrestleCon promoters put out a video answering questions about their Tampa show.
WWN said their WRESTLExpo dates during WrestleMania week will follow WWE's lead.
The Kevin Owens Inside The Ropes One Night Only event has been rescheduled for June 5th in Glasgow, Scotland.
EVOLVE's weekend shows in Chicago, IL. and Livonia, MI, were postponed to May 8th and 9th, respectively. The tryouts/seminars were also rescheduled to those dates as well.
The EVOLVE March 27-29 Recruitment Camp in Port Richey, FL, is still happening as scheduled.

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WWE MOVES MONDAY'S RAW TO PERFORMANCE CENTER
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This coming Monday's Raw has officially been moved to the WWE Performance Center.

WWE issued a statement announcing the news this afternoon: "This Monday night, Raw will air live as regularly scheduled and emanate from WWE’s training facility in Orlando, Florida with only essential personnel in attendance. The event was originally scheduled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.”

Pittsburgh's PPG Paints Arena was set to host the show. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto announced today that -- as of Monday morning -- gatherings of more than 250 people are being prohibited.

Monday's Raw falls on March 16, with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin set to appear as part of 3/16 Day. A contract signing for The Undertaker and AJ Styles' match at WrestleMania 36 had also been announced for the episode, along with the PPG Paints Arena advertising that Edge would appear.

This is the second episode of WWE television that's been moved due to the coronavirus outbreak. Tonight's SmackDown was also moved from the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan to the Performance Center.

The Performance Center hosted this week's episode of NXT, but that was because of Full Sail Live being unavailable due to Full Sail University's annual Hall of Fame week.

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AEW RELOCATING APRIL 1 AND APRIL 8 DYNAMITE EPISODES
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AEW has relocated two of their upcoming Dynamite episodes due to the corona virus outbreak.

In a social media post, the company released rescheduled dates and information for their upcoming shows in Milwaukee and St. Louis.

The St. Louis show, which was scheduled to take place on April 8, will now be held on October 7 at the Chaifetz Arena. The Milwaukee show, which was scheduled for April 1, will now be held on October 28 at the UWM Panther Arena.

AEW wrote that the April 1 and April 8 episodes of Dynamite will still air live on TNT, but will be relocated. It is currently unknown where the shows will be held.

Fans who have bought tickets for these shows will be offered a refund at the point of purchase, or can have their current ticket honored at the rescheduled dates. Additional details will be released in the future.

The next episode of Dynamite is currently scheduled to take place in Jacksonville, Florida at the Daily’s Place and will be managed under a restricted attendance policy.

[Big Red Machine]

CMLL and AAA are now cancelling/postponing things, too.

[Big Red Machine]

ROH has cancelled everything through the end of May. It will be interesting to see how bookers (and particularly in places that give relatively short contracts like ROH, MLW, and TNA) readjust their plans if they lose six months with talent for whom there will definitely be a bidding war when their deals come up.