5 Reasons why WWE should introduce VAR

#4 WWE has used it in the past, so why not again?

At Extreme Rules 2013, Alberto Del Rio (w/Ricardo Rodriguez) and Jack Swagger (w/Zeb Colter) battled it out in a No.1 contender I Quit match, with the winner going on to challenge Dolph Ziggler for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Towards the end of the match, Rodriguez held a towel in his hand at ringside in case he needed to throw it in for Del Rio. When referee Mike Chioda was not looking, Colter stole the towel and threw it in the ring. Chioda assumed that Rodriguez had forfeited the match for Del Rio, so he gave the victory to Swagger.

Another referee ran down to the ring and told Chioda what happened. The senior official then watched a replay of the incident on a monitor at ringside, realised that he had made a mistake, and he demanded that the match be restarted. Del Rio went on to quickly lock in the cross armbreaker on Swagger, who gave up.

WWE deserves credit for moving with the times and being ahead of many other organisations when it comes to social media and technology, and this example shows that VAR was successfully used in sports entertainment a long time before it became such a big talking point in football.

It worked back in 2013, so why not in 2019?