WWE Extreme Rules 2020 rumors you need to know

Rey Mysterio; Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre
Rey Mysterio; Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre

#4 Longer matches at Extreme Rules

Rey Mysterio, Dominik, and Seth Rollins
Rey Mysterio, Dominik, and Seth Rollins

WWE have had to make quite a few adjustments to their shows, as well as their roster due to the pandemic. One change that Sportskeeda's Tom Colohue recently revealed that WWE has made is to have longer matches. Tom revealed on Dropkick DiSKussions that because WWE have fewer Superstars to work with, they have made a decision to have longer matches.

He revealed that this would apply to this weekend's Extreme Rules pay-per-view as well.

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"There has been a mandate from the WWE management recently to have longer matches. A large part of this is down to the fact that they don't have as many people as they normally would, so they have to stretch things out a little bit. It worked out, I think about a week and a half ago on SmackDown, where they just hit all the different divisions, one match for each one and it really helped keep things hyped up, but obviously, they have lost a few more people since then. RAW this week was very much built around that as well. So for Extreme Rules, the same rule applies.

He also revealed on the show that the two cinematic matches - Bray Wyatt vs Braun Strowman, and Seth Rollins vs Rey Mysterio, are pretty long.

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