The State of Florida has issued a statewide stay-at-home order, a decision that could now affect both professional wrestling and mixed martial arts, with the order to come into effect at 12:01 a.m Eastern on Friday, April 3rd with it to expire on April 30th, unless it is extended by a subsequent order.

The order states that all persons in Florida shall limit their movements and personal interactions outside of their home to only those necessary to obtain or provide essential services or conduct essential activities and that senior citizens, and those with underlying medical conditions should stay at home and take all measures to limit the risk of exposure to the Coronavirus.

This is the second stay-at-home order that WWE have faced in recent days, as a stay-at-home order for the Orange County region in Florida has been in effect since March 26th and will end on April 9th. This led to the WWE taping this Friday’s WWE SmackDown, both nights of WrestleMania 36 and the post-WrestleMania edition of WWE Monday Night RAW, with WWE originally hopeful of returning to the WWE Performance Center on April 10th for a live WWE SmackDown broadcast on FOX, however with the statewide stay-at-home order, those plans may now change.

WWE are not the only wrestling company affected by this announcement as All Elite Wrestling have been forced to move their weekly television tapings out of Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida to an undisclosed location for the foreseeable future.