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WrestleMania 43 Officially in Riyadh | Cody's Smackdown Return

Busted Open

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4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Denise Salcedo and Mark Henry react to the news that WrestleMania 43 is officially taking place in Saudi Arabia. They also discuss Tiffany Stratton vs Jade Cargill and the return of Cody Rhodes on last night's Smackdown.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is Denise Sauta with the world strongest man, Mark Henry, and welcome to the

0:04.7

Busted Open podcast. To kick off the show, Mark and I react to the news that WrestleMania

0:09.4

43 is officially taking place in Saudi Arabia.

0:13.6

This is the busted open podcast.

0:17.6

There were early reports and rumors speculating that WWE was going to be holding

0:22.6

Rossomania 43 in the year 2027 in Saudi Arabia. Now, the day before yesterday, we had

0:30.1

Triple H go out and send out a tweet, letting people know that Friday, they would be making

0:34.7

a special announcement over on their YouTube channel.

0:38.5

And yesterday at 12 noon, Pacific Standard Time, they basically announced that

0:43.1

wrestling at 43 will be held in Saudi Arabia.

0:47.2

They had multiple of their superstars there, Triple H, Joe Tessitore, and as well as

0:53.6

Turkey a la sheikhs, excuse me, if I messed that up, my apologies.

0:58.6

So there is a whole lot of conversation around this in regards to the news and a lot of upset people to the point where the entire YouTube chat, where the announcement was

1:13.5

to make, was basically people telling the company that they sold out, things of that

1:18.9

nature.

1:19.5

Social media reactions have not been positive, as well as the crowd last night at Worlds

1:26.9

Collide, did in fact boo the announcement as well as

1:31.1

yelling out to the company that they sold out. So let's get right to it. Mark, initial reactions

1:39.1

to the news. You know what? I think that's just, you know, America being brainwashed about the culture of the rest of the world.

1:53.6

You know, like, man, every movie we see, they paint the picture of people in the Middle East as being terrorists and being the bad guys.

2:05.2

And that's farthest from the truth.

2:07.4

I've been everywhere on this planet.

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