New Joe Biden Ruling To Potentially Impact WWE, AEW & More

Joe Biden was elected into office this week, and the new President has already implemented a 14-day quarantine for anyone travelling into the US right now.

In the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer has noted how this could massively impact WWE, AEW and the wrestling world as a whole:

Depending on if exceptions are made for athletes are not, President Biden announcing a quarantine on people coming into the U.S. can greatly affect wrestling and to a degree MMA. With MMA, because the nature of the fight is such that fighters could spend two weeks quarantined and would still take the fight it could be worked around.

Biden brought up quarantining on 1/21 but didn’t mention a time frame. Japan and the U.K. both have a two-week quarantine in place for people coming from foreign countries.

With wrestlers from Mexico or Canada coming into the U.S., it would be more difficult. The idea they would have to test negative before boarding the plane that arrives would not be a game changer, but a lengthy quarantine period entering would make it so talent would probably have to move to the U.S. if they are European and Japan-based to work here, because to come in, you’d have to quarantine upon arrival for a certain length of time, and then for two weeks when returning.

Depending upon how Canada fits in, this could affect WWE talent that lives there. Impact if Canada fits in would be affected more because a number of talents including Don Callis, Josh Alexander, Cody Deaner and others still reside in Canada. Callis is also an AEW regular. Pac and any impending arrivals from Japan would be the obvious ones affected which could change the nature of the AEW women’s contenders tournament with the belief they were bringing talent in from Japan.

It is possible athletes could be excluded from this. In Japan, there are restrictions involving non-residents not allowed in the country, but the believe is that wrestlers will have an exemption, but they don’t have an exemption in Japan to avoiding the quarantine process.

As Meltzer notes, it’s possible that athletes are granted an exception to this quarantine rule, so make sure you stay tuned to WrestleTalk.com for any potential updates on the matter.

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