WWE Under Fire as Multiple Employees Test Positive for COVID-19

According to a report from Pro Wrestling Sheet, “multiple people in WWE” tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week: “Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned multiple people in WWE who have been at the Performance Center tested positive for COVID-19 this week, including in-ring talent.

It was revealed that WWE on-air talent Renee Young, WWE Producer Adam Pearce and on-air talent Kayla Braxton are all currently battling the coronavirus. This is Kayla's second bout with the virus after she first came down with it in March.

While it’s unclear when they were tested exactly, or how many of them were for wrestlers, sources tell us at least three people who had been at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando received positive test results this week.”

The Wrestling Observer’s Bryan Alvarez noted that WWE conducted Covid-19 testing on Monday, and though no further details on that round of testing have been released, that testing followed last week’s disastrous TV tapings that were cancelled and postponed following the company’s announcement that a developmental talent who had been present at the Performance Center tapings had tested positive for Covid-19.

WWE had to make swift changes to its TV taping schedule in order to administer Covid-19 tests to roster members and developmental talent as well as family members and friends of superstars who had served as faux fans at the company’s TV tapings.