WWE Returning to Saudi Arabia

From a business point of view, I completely get this. It was a deal too good to turn down but then do not the following week on RAW or Smackdown start talking about your women's revolution, your stance on anti-bullying and other PC/PR bullcrap.

And I will not be watching this either.

Thank you!

I thought the show was pretty fun. Not something anyone needs to run home and watch, but if you’re gonna be sitting there watching something anyway, why not?

The way I see it, I never expected this to be anything more than a glorified house show, so I was able to just take it for what it was and always intended to be. I think some people ended up disappointed because they were expecting way too much. The Rumble match itself was worth the watch. Some good laughs and some fun.

That would all be well and good if their chief marketing strategy in America wasn't corporate reponsibility. It's been the core focus of their brand for the better part of the last five years and it's largely what they've built their rehabilitated reputation on. They chose to make that message a core element of their corporation, and because of that, they've opened themselves up to criticism. If they want to run their business immorally and driven solely by money with complete disregard for everything else, that's their prerogative, but then they don't get to dedicate 30 minutes of TV time every week to telling you what a great, corporately responsible company they are. They can't have it both ways.

No one is forcing them to go anywhere, so, yes, they do get to tell a country how to run their show. It's their show. They have every right in the world to choose not to compromise the core values they preach to TV audiences and stockholders each and every week by saying, "this is what we are, and this is what we do, take it or leave it."

We're going to see what the fallout from this is in the coming months. Stockholders will make a decision based on their own morality. Given the circumstances and the political climate, I don't think it's a given that they turn a blind eye to where this money is coming from.

They did less than Lesnar and still got paid, definitely not bad! 😂

No offense, but the Saudi Arabian crowd sucked.

Saw that earlier and thought it was hilarious. Kinda funny too, that he also wanted 'the guy in the crown,' even though Lawler couldn't call himself King while in the country.



I don't know if it's true, but from what I heard, most of the floor seats were invite only, and a large amount of them, were men who came with their families, who really had no interest in wrestling. Again, don't know how true that is, since it came from reddit, but if it is, that's pretty sad, that instead of filling the arena with fans that would actually enjoy it, they put a large chunk there, that were only there, because they were requested to attend.

The Floor were all rich people, Sheikhs, and whatnot. If you notice, a lot of the time they had their backs turned to the ring and seemed to be laughing and carrying on conversations with people around them. They couldn't care less about being there.