WWE Accused Of Taking Saudi Arabian ‘Blood Money’

During a press conference on Thursday (October 25), it was announced that WWE will be going ahead with their plans and staging Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia.

Understandably, thousands of people have jumped to criticise the company for doing this while investigations into the murder of New York Times journalist Jamal Khashoggi continue.

ESPN’s Dan Le Batard discussed the news on his show, heavily criticising WWE for taking Saudi Arabia’s “blood money”.

“Did you see that WWE is still going to Saudi Arabia? What a bad decision that is. But, it’s the sewer and the sewer is going to behave like the sewer.

“There’s a lot of money in Saudi Arabia, so much money, so wrestling is going back to Saudi Arabia as we wonder whether Saudi Arabia kills journalists with bone saws.

“It’s not a hard statement to make. You’re usually not this overt about ‘We’ll take your money even though you’re being investigated for killing a journalist with a bone saw.’

“We’re usually not quite that overt like, ‘Yeah, we’ll take your money, your blood money, no matter what.'”

It’s fair to say that criticism will continue to rain in on WWE for the foreseeable future, and viewing figures for next Friday’s show will be very interesting to see.

Thanks to fightful.com for the quote transcription.