Former WWE referee Mike Chioda recently appeared on an episode of the “Monday Mailbag” podcast, where he talked about how some of the matchups during the pandemic took about 2-4 hours to complete because of how many times it had to be cut and edited.
Mike Chioda said:
“During COVID when I was actually working a little bit, they said tapings at WWE for one match would take like three hours. Cut. Do this. Cut.”
“Charles Robinson and some of the guys when I met up with them for dinner at WrestleMania, Chad Patton and them guys were telling me it took 2, 3, 4 hours to do one match because they had to cut so many times, splice it, and do this.” “It was a mess.”
You can check out Mike Chioda's full comments at this link. H/T to WrestlingNews.co for transcribing the above quotes.
