[Greatest Royal Rumble] Discussão em Direto e Pós-Show

Como informamos neste terça-feira (01), Ariya Daivari revelou no Twitter que ele recebeu ameaças de morte após sua aparição no "Greatest Royal Rumble" da última sexta-feira em Jeddah, na Arábia Saudita. Tudo ocorreu pois Daivari envolveu-se em um segmento com vários recrutas da Arábia, onde ele e Shawn Daivari elogiaram o Irã e exaltaram-o como maior que a Arábia Saudita causando assim um confronto entre os dois países.

Ariya twittou que ele estava muito orgulhoso de sua herança iraniana e pediu desculpas a qualquer um que pudesse ter sido ofendido pelo segmento, observando que ele interpreta um personagem e que ele tem um grande respeito pelo grande povo do Irã".

Após o pedido de desculpas, Ariya revelou que ainda continua recebendo várias ameaças de morte por parte de iranianos. Ele publicou o seguinte:

"Infelizmente, são muitas as ameaças vindas dos iranianos."

Wrestling Observer Newsletter escreveu:

While WWE was talking about progression in the country, the reality was very different. From April 17 to April 19, 2014, Sami Zayn, a Canadian who comes from Syrian heritage, wrestled in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for three straight nights. At the time, he wasn’t even a main roster member because they wanted to use him as a Middle Eastern star. In 2018, he was not allowed to wrestle in the same country. Folks, that is not progress. That is going backwards.

The Zayn situation was kept secret before and during the show. He himself had known about it for about a week, as he was told he was doing an injury angle on the 4/23 Raw show to explain him not being on the show as advertised. He was not told why he wasn’t on the show. To the best of our knowledge and based on what he’s said to others privately, he still hasn’t been told and has claimed he has no explanation. There was a directive that nobody could speak on that issue until after the show, to avoid controversy that the company had now also been told a performer couldn’t come because of his ethnicity. All the announcers and others were given a handbook of sorts with all kinds of rules, mostly of customs and things to avoid doing (such as never blow off a handshake to anyone because they will take it as an insult and you don’t want to insult the wrong person), and one of the directives was to never mention anything about Zayn, and obviously not a word was said on the broadcast about the women either.

It is confirmed to us that Sheikh Badr bin Ali Al-Otaibi (بدر بن علي العتيبي) is arrested on 29/04/2018 because of his critique against Wrestling, coinciding with the event of signing a ten-year deal between #SaudiArabia and WWE to bring professional wrestling to KSA. pic.twitter.com/JLJZefZCvv

— Prisoners of Conscie (@m3takl_en) 5 de maio de 2018