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#2. The extremely stressful nature of Bruce Prichard's new WWE role

Paul Heyman's removal from the Executive Director's position on RAW brought about a major creative shake-up backstage in WWE.

Bruce Prichard, who was the Executive Director of SmackDown, was made the head of the consolidated creative teams of the Red and Blue brands.

Prichard's partner-in-crime, Conrad Thompson recently appeared on The Wrestling Inc Daily podcast, and he opened up about the struggles that Prichard is facing in his new WWE role.

Due to the pandemic and WWE being forced to adapt and tape weekly content, Bruce Prichard's job has unsurprisingly gotten even more stressful. Thompson noted that Prichard has to deal with both the FOX and USA networks, and various challenges are keeping the veteran on his toes.

Here's what Thompson revealed about Prichard's stressful WWE job:

"It's not a little bit of stress, it's a lot of stress. We don't have specific conversations cause I don't want him to ever think that I'm being the guy trying to dig for scoops, but yeah, every now and again, certainly I'll get a call from Bruce and you can just hear it in his voice," revealed Thompson. He's tired. He's sleepy. He's stressing. And I can only imagine the amount of curveballs that are coming his way, not just from running a show on FOX, which my goodness, what a huge undertaking that is.

But now you've also got a show on USA, but as if that wasn't enough, it's also happening during a pandemic on a closed set. It's just remarkable when you think about all the particular challenges and how many times they must have to – and nobody's told me this – but I just assume they've had to write and rewrite and write and rewrite because there's so many moving parts. There's so many variables with who can travel, who can't, who has a fever, who doesn't. These are things where maybe once upon a time it was just something you didn't have to worry about."