On his new podcast, After The Bell, Corey Graves spoke about the travel issues that WWE ran into while coming home from Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia.
During the podcast, Graves responded to the conspiracy theory that Vince McMahon left the WWE roster stranded in the country.
Here is what Graves said about that theory (h/t to Fightful for the quote below):
What really got to me was when the rumors started coming out. The first one being, that Vince left everybody in Saudi Arabia. That’s not true,” he stated. “If you work here, you know that every week, no matter where we are, as soon as the final bell rings, Vince gets on his jet and goes home or to the next city because the guy is busy running WWE. It might be a sexy headline saying, ‘Vince left before everybody. Everybody was stuck except for Vince and Brock.’ When you’re Brock Lesnar, Tyson Fury, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair; you’ve earned that. It wasn’t like [Vince] said ‘to hell with the talent.’
Vince did exactly what he has done every week, without fail. It wasn’t some, ‘Gotta get the hell out of the country, there’s something crazy going on.’ It was exactly how it works. That’s how things operate every week, this is no different.
Graves also spoke about some of the other conspiracy theories that came from this trip:
“All these conspiracy theories that have been drawn up…and half of it comes from some of the boys that were on the plane. If you are that insecure and you feel so strongly that you’re gonna get on Twitter and complain that our flight got screwed up, what’s Twitter gonna do? All it is is fuel for these ‘journalists,’ and then everyone puts their two cents in and starts coming up with their conspiracy theories. If you’re mad that your flight got delayed and you weren’t one of the Saudi 20, that’s on you. Quit crying about it on Twitter. You know who wasn’t complaining? Randy Freakin’ Orton. If anyone has the cache and the right to speak his mind, it would be Randy Orton. He got it. It was about doing the damn show,”
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