Kemo
10-26-2018, 05:33 PM
After a long wait, WWE finally released a decisive statement on their upcoming Crown Jewel PPV yesterday morning announcing that they are moving forward with the Saudi Arabian event as planned.
Though as you can expect this statement has only fueled the discussion about the show with people now debating whether or not WWE made the right call.
Since this topic was expected to be brought up in the 2019 third quarter earnings conference call that took place yesterday, Vince McMahon made it clear at the beginning that they are not going to talk about it:
“We’re not going to talk a lot about that it’s a very sensitive subject. I think our statement says all we’re going to say about that today.”
When brought back up later in the call, the topic was again dodged and this time it was CFO George Barrios who repeated the same words saying that all their thoughts are included in the statement:
Jason @ Citi #wweq3
Q: "Respecting you don't want to talk about Saudi Arabia, Can you frame what risks that relate to Saudi Arabia outside your control? Economic Sanctions risk?"
Barrios: "The complexity of the situation as Vince said. All our thoughts are in our statement."
— Chris Harrington (@mookieghana) October 25, 2018
With this call, it’s pretty clear that WWE won’t be talking much about the event in near future and it wouldn’t be a surprise if they don’t even mention it after November 2.
Though the upcoming go home episode of Raw and SmackDown are still expected to build the event and it’d be interesting to see how they reference the show on WWE programming in the upcoming week.
Though as you can expect this statement has only fueled the discussion about the show with people now debating whether or not WWE made the right call.
Since this topic was expected to be brought up in the 2019 third quarter earnings conference call that took place yesterday, Vince McMahon made it clear at the beginning that they are not going to talk about it:
“We’re not going to talk a lot about that it’s a very sensitive subject. I think our statement says all we’re going to say about that today.”
When brought back up later in the call, the topic was again dodged and this time it was CFO George Barrios who repeated the same words saying that all their thoughts are included in the statement:
Jason @ Citi #wweq3
Q: "Respecting you don't want to talk about Saudi Arabia, Can you frame what risks that relate to Saudi Arabia outside your control? Economic Sanctions risk?"
Barrios: "The complexity of the situation as Vince said. All our thoughts are in our statement."
— Chris Harrington (@mookieghana) October 25, 2018
With this call, it’s pretty clear that WWE won’t be talking much about the event in near future and it wouldn’t be a surprise if they don’t even mention it after November 2.
Though the upcoming go home episode of Raw and SmackDown are still expected to build the event and it’d be interesting to see how they reference the show on WWE programming in the upcoming week.