The coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on WWE over the last few weeks, and this weekend WrestleMania 36 will air over two nights on the WWE Network.
WrestleMania 36 was taped last week at the WWE Performance Center, and WWE’s decision to move forward with the event has been heavily criticized.
Triple H addressed the controversy during an interview with ESPN MMA, and he said that the company felt an obligation to give the fans some entertainment.
“I think [postponing or canceling] was obviously considered but we feel like it’s an obligation for us,” he continued. “Our fans have been there for us for years and years and years and we want to be there for them in this time where everybody is just doing the best to get through this, stuck home and the world needs entertainment right now. We feel an obligation to give them that. Whether it’s exactly what we would like it to be or they would like it to be, it probably won’t be, but it will be a version of that. We will make it the spectacle that it needs to be and that we can to the best of our ability and we’ll give the fans something to be entertained by.”
“Sometimes people get very caught up in what we do, the arguments of what’s happening and why and should’ve done this or that, but at the end of the day if you don’t take it too seriously and you enjoy WWE for what it is, an entertainment source that hopefully we can do what the intent is is putting a smile on your face. If you can forget all that and put it aside and just sit in front of your set and just be entertained by what we do, then we’ve succeeded.”
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