One of the major topics heading into the Greatest Royal Rumble event was that there weren’t any Women’s matches. In a new turn of events, Saudi Arabia’s General Sport Authority is apologizing for ads that displayed during the event. This promotional material featured some of WWE’s female talent.
Here is the translation from a Tweet from the Saudi Arabia General Sport Authority (via Wrestling INC):
“The General Sport Authority would like to apologize to the viewers and attendees of last night’s WWE event that took place in Jeddah, over the indecent scene involving women that appeared as an ad before a segment. It would like to confirm it’s total disapproval of this, in the shadow of its commitment to eliminate anything that goes against the communities values.
The authority has made sure to ban showing of any segment that involves women wrestling or any scenes related to it, and stipulated that to the company (WWE). The authority also disapproved any promotional stuff with pictures or videos showing women in an indecent way, and emphasized on commitment of this rule. And it’s a commitment that the authority would still commit to forever in all of it’s events and programs.”
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Also, WWE released a statement on Sami Zayn not appearing at the event (which you can read here).
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