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News - WWE Royal Rumble In Saudi Arabia

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4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On today's wrestling news:

0:00 Rundown

0:26 WWE Royal Rumble In Saudi Arabia

3:41 John Cena vs Cody Rhodes Planned For WrestleMania 41

7:54 New WWE NXT Evolve TV Show

12:10 Kairi Sane Injured



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0:00.0

On today's wrestling news, the Royal Wumble is going to Saudi Arabia.

0:03.9

Cody Rhodes and John Sina is currently planned for WrestleMania 41.

0:08.3

Got news on a brand new WW TV show.

0:11.2

And we've got news on a WWE superstar who is out of action with an arm injury.

0:16.5

Are you ready? Are you ready for the news times?

0:18.7

My name is Phil Chambers and I'm joined by Gareth Morgan.

0:21.6

Happy New Year and all that.

0:23.6

Wrestling News, that's what we're doing.

0:25.6

Well, Rumble, it's going to Saudi Arabia.

0:28.6

Yay!

0:29.6

Good start for the year.

0:31.6

So this is coming from PW Insider.

0:33.6

And it is, they sort of said that it is going in 2026 and we should expect an announcement about this pretty soon, potentially as soon as the raw Netflix debut, which is happening on Monday, obviously.

0:46.3

Now this isn't completely out of the blue. We have had rumblings about something like this happening before. Turkey Alashik, who is the chairman of the Saudi Arabia General Entertainment Authority,

0:59.4

has spoken to Ariel Helwani on the MMA hour podcast before about him wanting to bring

1:04.5

either a WrestleMania or a Royal Rumble to Saudi Arabia sort of in the times scale of 2026 to 2027. So this is obviously

1:13.6

the first thing of that. And potentially if they're going to be taking the Royal Rumble outside of

1:19.2

the US and taking that over to Saudi Arabia, I mean, it's not outside of the realms of

1:24.7

possibility that they could take Armenia mania over there as well before

1:28.2

this deal is up. Now it started, the Saudi Arabia sports deal thing started in 2018. It was a 10-year

1:34.6

deal that they signed so they've got until 2028. So they're obviously kind of ramping this up

1:39.8

towards the end of this current deal. But also there's obviously, that doesn't mean that the deal's

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