I used to work on the changeover crew in Buffalo. The one smackdown taping I worked was the hands down coolest experience of my life. Mingling with the entertainment was frowned upon but John Cena specifically went out of his way to make sure even the lowest level employee felt like part of the show. It’s amazing how much work goes into every aspect of the show, and to have a guy like that be so down to earth was humbling as fuck
The perspective of talking to the entertainment being frowned upon sounds like one of the most corporate things ever. That's a shame. I'm glad Cena goes out of his way like that.
@@brdane I moved onto hospitality and I get it. Employees are people and can be pretty weird, you don’t want any higher profile guest (entertainer, etc.) to have a bad experience with a weird employee and not want to come back, or even worse tell their friends and agents not to book that place. The safest thing to do is keep it business with people who absolutely have to do it and let the guest/talent do their thing.
what a magnificent job this is, we all see the arenas ready to be enjoyed and the fights and many times we don't recognize all the work behind the montagues and backstage
Just seeing how tiny the ring is (which is massive in it's own right) is compared to the whole arena. Plus bow they block off halve of the stadium with a black curtain, I assumed they'd used the full thjng but it makes sense because where would Guerilla be
as an ex wrestler myself its always interesting to see this happen before our live shows funny because inbetween them i became security for some of the live shows
Never seen a venue move the center hung screen so it can be used for the event. Most WWE events I witnessed the screen some times offset from the ring since the venue doesn't have the room to move the stage so the screen ends up off center.
Seems like this one was a built specifically for the event. I think when they are off center thats the huge stadium ones where the actual stadium doesn't have the infrastructure to move it around on demand.
@@hecticaperture It's the same screen that was hanging at the start of the video. They took it down, move it to the bottom left of the screen and set it back up where WWE needed it.
This year's setup was garbage just like it's been the past few years with the Rumble. I went to 2017 and it was way better with the complete venue open and an actual stage with full entrances etc. It's like they're getting cheaper and lazier with production which shouldn't be the case when it comes to one of your 4 top payper view staples. Even weekly show production is better than this house show setup they do for the rumble.
I was saying that myself I feel like they don’t have the creativity like they used to they used to have unique setups for each pay per view but hasn’t been the case sadly they just do the cheapest way feels bad
I thought it felt very different in 2019 when they had a completely different entrance setup but they're doing the same setup with every ppv now. I understand saving money and it's easier to transport the set but this is a billion dollar company.
Is that the platform they keep the pyrotechnic concussions on being built at the far left starting around 0:45? I've been looking for footage/photos of that for years, and the closest I've found is an old picture from WWE's website of Ron Bleggi on it... Edit: Upon further inspection it looks like that was something temporary, it had lights on it and they took it down before the show started...curious as to what it was though
@@Time-LapseVideos Hmm, are we referring to the same thing? This is what I was referencing, i.imgur.com/bbHNitS.png It looks like it was preparing to be hung behind that curtain as it was connected to chain motors, but taken down right as they were bringing in the seating... Now that I think about it, with it being the size of the ring, I wonder if the were just using that platform to paint a ring canvas for the Mountain Dew match or something...
To clean the concrete floor, it gets really dirty during setup like this with all the equipment and vehicles rolling around. Notice when they set up the chairs, that they are set directly on the concrete floor, so it needs to be cleaned before audience gets there.
I don't get why they always seem to get a stadium venue just to cut half of it off. Could totally nearly break attendence records if they just use full capacity. Why must the ring be so far on one side instead of middle also?
@@Time-LapseVideos I'm sure they could've sold out the entire venue. The Rumble is one of the funnest events to attend regardless of the quality of the product. There's probably a better reason but you have to think, in a Rumble you have 60 men and women running to the ring. The entrance is already long enough lol. You think they really want to center the ring?
@@Time-LapseVideos not a legit excuse they had the entire stadium open for 2017 and 1997 they can obviously sell tickets for one of their best payperviews of the year
Call me old-school but it seems lame that they would curtain off a side of building...and it's not even the stage where the wrestlers come out and the titan-tron set would be. I've never been a fan of the elaborate sets to begin with as I see it as losing the maximum of potential fans in the arena; since WWE is always going on about setting indoor attendance records. Were the ticket sales low? Good time laps btw. How long was the actual set-up and take-down times respectively?
all bump in is especially for riggers is waiting for trucks to arrive forkies to drive shit in and then riggers do there job. then bump out is the reverse cause the trucks are near site. so the riggers just have to go up and do the work which is hard work btw especially in open stadiums and when the riggers are in the roof with zero air circulation and its 35*c + day.
Why do they cover 1/3rd of the stadium I don’t get it put the entrance in the middle middle of the stadium and then the hole stadium can be used so there is more money (does anyone know why they covered that part of the stadium pls let me know)
Wow! WWE sure has lost so many fans! Heck Royal Rumble 1998 was at this same venue and they didn’t have to use a black tarp to close off half the stadium. WWE you wasted time pumping up your old wrestlers and fail to pump up your new talent and it has cost you big time! You can filled up the Alamodome wow.
@@valeriewithsalt WrestleMania always has large numbers. This was a a Royal Rumble a big ppv event and they couldn’t sale it out if you look back at the Royal Rumble 1998 it’s at the same venue and it’s was sold out! I like WWE too but I see how empty some venues can be for shows.
It was mainly because the stage they used back in 2017 was the usual Raw stage which obviously blocked off a whole section unlike nowadays they just put LED on the entrance way
