WWE Talent Preparing For Worse Case Scenario In Saudi Arabia

Stars and crew are planning for the worst at next week's Super ShowDown event.

by Andrew Pollard
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As WWE gears up to return to Saudi Arabia next week for the company's next Super ShowDown special, WWE talent is said to already be preparing for another nightmare trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

According to PWInsider, WWE talent has made a pact that if any issues arise during this latest venture to Saudi Arabia then nobody leaves early, all of the crew stay together, and all of the crew will leave together.

If you remember, last year’s Crown Jewel event ending up throwing up all kinds of problems for the WWE personnel who made the trip. While major names like Vince McMahon, Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns departed Saudi Arabia quicksmart, so many other talents were left stranded in the Kingdom due to an apparent butting of heads between McMahon and Mohammad Bin Salman – to the point that these superstars weren’t allowed to depart the country for a further 24 hours.

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Super ShowDown takes place from Riyadh’s Mohammed Abdou Arena on Thursday, February 27th, with key matches seeing Ricochet challenge for Brock Lesnar’s WWE Championship, Goldberg going up against WWE Universal Champion ‘The Fiend’ Bray Wyatt, and Roman Reigns and Baron Corbin facing off inside a steel cage.

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