Impact of Wrestlemania to Saudi Announcement

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🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Jonathan Hood and Justin LaBar analyze WWE's announcement of Wrestlemania 43 going to Saudi Arabia and the impact it has had on the pro wrestling world. Plus! They breakdown the first promo from AJ Lee since her epic return to WWE this week and whether there's anyone left who could get the reaction she got.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bust Open Podcast.
0:02.0	Along with Justin Labar, I'm Jonathan Hood.
0:04.0	And on today's show, we discuss the announcement of WrestleMania 43 emanating from Saudi Arabia.
0:10.2	How does that affect us as wrestling fans?
0:12.2	We talk about it right now on the Busted Open podcast.
0:17.0	This is the Busted Open Podcast.
0:21.5	The big announcement, actually the biggest announcement of the week, and that is that the
0:26.8	WWE will have WrestleMania 43 in Saudi Arabia.
0:34.1	That will be in 2027.
0:36.1	That's when we'll see WrestleMania in Saudi Arabia.
0:38.3	It's the first time
0:39.3	WrestleMania will be outside of North America.
0:41.3	And of course you and I have waxed poetic
0:44.3	about some of the great moments of
0:46.3	WrestleMania.
0:47.3	WrestleMania is that I've been to,
0:49.3	that you've been to as well.
0:51.3	It's all taking place here in the good old USA.
0:53.3	But you can tell that the mood has changed and the times have changed in WWE since they've been under the TKL brand.
1:03.0	Yeah, come 2027, we're going to be a long way from Madison Square Garden.
1:08.0	Yeah, that's true. It's a long way in those 43 years.
1:15.1	But I have to say, and this doesn't, you know,
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