WrestleMania 37 will be the first WWE event in a year to have a live audience in attendance, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the help of the WWE ThunderDome, the company has managed to provide a virtual experience unlike anything seen before in a pro wrestling company. Now it seems the company has an interesting plan regarding their audience in attendance for shows.
Stephanie McMahon was recently interviewed by TV Insider, where she talked about live fans making a return. She referred to those fans as the company’s “secret sauce” and it seems the company plans on ‘merging’ the virtual experience with real fans. Here is what she said:
Our fans are our secret sauce. When we pivoted to the ThunderDome [WWE’s virtual videoconferencing crowd system], we brought our fans back [virtually] as well as the lights, the lasers, the pyro. There is an intersection of technology and live attendance. It happened faster than I think anyone anticipated, but we are absolutely looking to merge those worlds together the biggest and best way we possibly can. I know that our audience will be very vocal in telling us what they do and don’t like, which is certainly appreciated.
