Netflix exposes hidden WWE area fans never get to see and this is what it's for

Daily Mirror

29-07-2025

Some might know about it but Netflix offers first deep dive into how it works on each WWE show
Netflix have uncovered a hidden WWE area that fans never get to see during shows and revealed exactly what it is for.
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New docuseries Unreal, now streaming on the platform is revealing some rarely seen insight into the making of the wrestling company. According to its synopsis, fans are invited for the first time ever, to step into the WWE writer's room and outside the ring among other places with their favourite WWE Superstars.
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Cameras take viewers where the drama is just as intense offstage as it is under the spotlight across this unique five-part series showing behind the scenes like never before.
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One of those areas is a key place where everything is controlled, whether you are watching Raw, Royal Rumble or Wrestlemania. It is known as the Gorilla position.
The most dedicated are probably already well aware of this location, but for those who are unfamiliar - it is affectionately named after former wrestler Robert James Marella, who went by the name Gorilla Monsoon. After Monsoon retired from action in the ring, he worked as one of WWE's most popular commentators.
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He also spent time as a backstage manager. This is where he would be consistently spotted pulling the strings in the small area between backstage, and the entrance. Hence, why it is now referred to as Gorilla position.
It has certainly evolved since those days and even those who know of its existence are perhaps given their first proper look at how it is used for every WWE show.
As WWE's Head of Content Paul Levesque, otherwise known as Triple H, explains: Years go when TV production started to become a thing, Gorilla Monsoon a very famous wrestler, he was timing things and controlling things from the area right before talent would walk out to go to the ring.
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"That became known as Gorilla Position. Gorilla Position in today's world, it is the epicenter of everything we do. The show is run from there."
Bruce Prichard, WWE Executive Director adds: "The Gorilla position is probably the most important position in the arena. You basically control the world that night. Your world., the World Wresting Entertainment is controlled from the Gorilla position.
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A diagram is shown of the typical layout of Gorilla position, while workers construct the space from scratch for a production of Raw.
Ed Koskey, the SVP of Creative Writing says "The Gorilla positioin is very unique. In every arena, it's custom built, However, the inside and the workings of it are the same.
There's primarily three tables set up inside Gorilla position. There's one table where Triple H and Bruce Prichard are sitting. Another table where Billy Kidman, who is our producer responsible for timing out the show and keeping tabs on times. Next to him will sit the respective match producer.
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Despite this simple setup, footage shows at least a dozen additional people standing around the three desks, as the match producer calls through the action.
It is also pointed out that every single producer at WWE is a former talent with extensive experience of performing in the ring themselves. Match producer Chris Park, used to wrestle under as Abyss and explains his role in Gorilla position.
Not only is he making sure viewers at home get the best view and understand what is going on but he is constantly in the ears of the referees.
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He says: "So the mechanics during the match for me and the reason I'm wearing a headset is I'm talking to the truck, keeping them about 10 or 15 seconds ahead of what's going on in the ring so that the cameras capture the story that we're trying to tell.
"Another thing I'm doing on that headset as well is I'm talking to the referees, the referees can hear me."
Whatever producers need to tell talent, whether it is to speed up, increase energy or make their mark, the message is delivered via the referees. They are also able to give feedback on the wrestlers' wellbeing.
Triple H concludes: "Our business is telling stories and the epicentre of making that happen in real time, live, is Gorilla position."