According to Bryan Alvarez on the latest edition of “Wrestling Observer Live”, a “majority of the WWE talent” doesn’t want to go to Saudi Arabia for the upcoming “Crown Jewel” event. As previously reported here on eWrestlingNews.com, WWE has been receiving a lot of pressure to cancel or change locations for the event due to the recent disappearance of Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi. For those unaware, Turkish authorities claim Khashoggi was kidnapped and murdered while visiting a Saudi embassy in the country.
Alvarez said, “I can’t speak for everybody on the WWE roster. I haven’t talked to everybody on the WWE roster but I can tell you that a lot of the people that are scheduled to go to Saudi Arabia, they don’t want to go to Saudi Arabia.
In fact, the majority of the talent doesn’t want to go to Saudi Arabia but the office wants to go to Saudi Arabia, and they have shareholders that they want to please with all of these big money deals that they’re getting. We’ll see what happens.”
As of now, WWE “Crown Jewel” is still scheduled to take place on November 2nd from the King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
