ORLANDO, Fla. — The day after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, dozens of professional wrestlers and a packed house at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans stood silent.
Just one day after the massacre in Orlando that left 49 dead and 53 injured, WWE’s "Monday Night Raw" started without a sound and a message of solidarity on the big screen: “We stand with Orlando.”
According to emails recently released by city government, it seems WWE has offered a larger response to the tragedy in Orlando.
While neither WWE nor Orlando government have said what the professional wrestling organization may be planning, discussions have taken place.
In an email to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, WWE chief brand officer Stephanie McMahon, the daughter of wrestling legend Vince McMahon, offered to “do everything we can to help support you and your efforts to rebuild the constitution of your great city.”
McMahon told Dyer that she and other WWE celebrities were grieving with the residents of Orlando, calling the city “a second home.”
The WWE Performance Center, NXT and WrestleMania are headquartered in Orlando.
McMahon reached out to Dyer to ask what the WWE could do for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, and the residents of Orlando.
“We are already brainstorming ideas to help raise money for the OneOrlando fund, and I wanted to know if there was more we could be doing,” she wrote.
In response, Dyer wrote: “Thank you Stephanie for your kind words and your generosity. Someone will be in touch with you.”
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