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What happened in Saudi Arabia that left WWE wrestlers stranded?: Wrestling Observer Radio

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  1. JoylessAubergine
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    This is an 18 minute clip from the Wrestling observer Radio show featuring Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alverez talking about the recent incident where after one of WWEs controversial big shows in KSA...

    This is an 18 minute clip from the Wrestling observer Radio show featuring Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alverez talking about the recent incident where after one of WWEs controversial big shows in KSA (for which they are paid ~$50mil a year for 10 years) over 175 wrestlers and event staff were stranded after they were took off their plane and put in hotels for over 24 hours.

    WWE are claiming mechanical issues, fans, wrestlers and people like Dave think there is something more to it. Vince and the top stars left on private jets as soon as the show ended leaving the bulk of the wrestlers there. There are rumours about KSA not paying for the previous shows yet and Vince not broadcasting the show live as was planned. The wrestlers were really angry (quite a few with "never again" type tweets) and nearly all were silent until they left the country. The Smackdown show on Friday only has about 4 mainroster wrestlers on it because the rest were stuck in KSA.

    This also comes the week where WWE stock absolutely tanked nearly 20% from a week ago and is half of what it was 6 months ago.

    If only they could write stories as interesting as what is happening backstage!

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