5 crazy ways WWE can use an empty arena to their advantage at WrestleMania

#1. If it works, this could change the way PPVs are presented in the future

That's Frank Zappa, by the way. Just for reference

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

I believe it was Plato who coined that phrase. Or Frank Zappa. Seriously, this feature is so behind deadline, I didn't really have time to research this one particular thing. But, I'm pretty sure it was one of those two guys.

In a weird way, I sort of compare this to the strategy a lot of video game companies have been implementing when it comes to the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) - another casualty of COVID-19, sadly. Rather than producing an expensive stage show of a press conference to announce their upcoming titles to the world, many of them are producing slick, fun, pre-recorded presentations and releasing them online during the event, instead.

Nintendo and Devolver Digital are just two examples of this.

OK, that's the last of the gaming stuff.

My point is, WWE has been trying to innovate in a vaccum. That can be helpful sometimes - have limitations on your creative output and, inversely, require creators to work with those limitations and create something even more... er... creative. And, WWE has been working with the same format for decades now. That's not a knock on them, by the way - when you're a company that big, you don't have the (for lack of a better word) luxury that a Chikara does.

Don't get me wrong - neither myself or anyone else (at least, not anyone else that's sane) expects WWE to reinvent the wheel this April. But, out of necessity, comes innovation. And, as I mentioned at the start of this rambling diabtribe, WWE works really, really well when necessity enters the picture.

So, I'm actually really, really excited to see what Vince and Co. cook up for this first week in April. It might be incredible, or it might be an abomination. Hopefully, at the very least, it'll be interesting.