The Disturbing Truth Behind Saudi Arabia Buying WWE

That all may read as much too nihilistic.

People, many of them, remain disgusted - and rightly so - that WWE continued to sportswash a sadistic regime. But also, the level of backlash was absolutely nowhere near where it was four years prior, when dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished off the face of the earth amid reputable intelligence that he had been dismembered with a bone saw. This is how hell-mouth capitalism works; it is so relentlessly unfair and awful that everybody simply becomes calloused to horrible things because - newsflash, slick - something horrible happens every single week!

All of which is to state that, as awful as the probable news is - if you're somehow unaware, WWE has reportedly been sold to the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund and reverting to private ownership in the process - nothing materially has changed.

WWE is still a bad company. It is rotten. This is a company owner variously accused, throughout his grim history, of covering up murder and child molestation, encouraging a belatedly lethal drug culture, and generally treating its workforce like meat. If you were to rank every awful thing WWE has ever done, in a 100-point list, the awful bullying to which Howard Finkel - as nice and as dedicated a man as this horror show of an industry was lucky to ever have involved in it - wouldn't make the drafting stage.

If you think it changed under Triple H, because people seemed happier to work there and many talents were brought back after being fired, did you see the celebrations of the KSA leading up to Crown Jewel '22? If anything, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon were more overt than the old regime in embracing their benefactors.

Don't cry for WWE. It was already dead. WWE hasn't magically turned heel. The only thing that's happened here is that Sting has taken off the Sting mask to reveal the Sting face paint.

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