Jim Ross recently spoke about his experience in Saudia Arabia on his podcast, The Ross Report. Ross was on the panel for the Greatest Royal Rumble kickoff show and also during the prayer break in the middle of the show.
Ross explained the unique way in which the announce team was escorted to their positions for the event.
Here is what he said (h/t to Ringside News for the quote);
“I had never done a show where I was going through a metal detector to get to the broadcast position and be escorted to my position by men with machine guns. That was interesting.
“And I’d never done that many pregame shows, to be honest with you but the half-time thing we did, intermission was for their prayer. You know they pray 5 times a day there. Officially 5 times a day and one of those time periods fell within the show. So we stopped and Booker, The King, Byron, and I did our little thing at halftime so to speak but that was during the prayer. So it was all a unique experience to say the least.”
Not your typical WWE event.