WWE Women To Receive HUGE Payday For Missing Greatest Royal Rumble

A fair compromise?

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WWE's women's roster won't be part of Friday's Greatest Royal Rumble show, but it looks like the company have found a way to make it up to them.

According to Jerry Lawler on his latest Dinner With The King podcast, WWE plan on handing their female talents "a heck of a payday" as compensation for missing the show, though he gave no indication of the amount.

On the same podcast, Jim Cornette commented that the company are being paid "more than you've ever seen" to put the Greatest Royal Rumble on in Saudi Arabia. There's a lot of money behind the event, with PWStream reporting WWE may receive as much as $200 million.

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The financing, coupled with the cultural factors preventing the women from competing on Friday night, have caused much controversy over the past few months. Still, if WWE are earning all this money, the least they can do is apportion some of it to their missing female stars.

Perhaps there'll come a day when enough progress is made to allow women's wrestlers to compete in future WWE shows in the country, but for now, the payday sounds like a fair compromise.

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Andy has been with WhatCulture for six years and is currently WhatCulture's Senior Wrestling Reporter. A writer, presenter, and editor with 10+ years of experience in online media, he has been a sponge for all wrestling knowledge since playing an old Royal Rumble 1992 VHS to ruin in his childhood. Having previously worked for Bleacher Report, Andy specialises in short and long-form writing, video presenting, voiceover acting, and editing, all characterised by expert wrestling knowledge and commentary. Andy is as much a fan of 1985 Jim Crockett Promotions as he is present-day AEW and WWE - just don't make him choose between the two.