WWE Star A ‘Secret Witness’ In Saudi Arabia Lawsuit

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Source: https://wrestletalk.com/news/wwe-star-a ... a-lawsuit/


The controversy surrounding WWE‘s relationship with Saudi Arabia continues as a lawsuit with the support of ‘secret witnesses’ has been filed.

There are several lawsuits that have been filed like this one, but the key difference here is the secret witnesses, one of which is a WWE star and one of which works for the Middle East Broadcasting Network, the TV company involved in the controversy.

Back in October, a “hostage situation” was described as the WWE stars who had competed at Crown Jewel were unable to fly home and thus missed the next day’s episode of SmackDown.

The story WWE told was that it was due to mechanical difficulties with the plane, but several lawsuits, including this one, have called that into question.

The ‘secret witness’ WWE star described everything that happened as it was reported before the mechanical defence – including that it was a conflict between WWE and the network because they couldn’t agree on a licensing fee, which led to Vince McMahon cutting off the feed of the show, which was responded to by not letting the wrestlers leave the country.

The witness alleges that Head of WWE Talent Relations Mark Carrano actually described this very situation to them.

The witness says he was one of the few people that managed to get on a private flight back early while the rest were still stuck there, and said he received text messages saying that they were being held there because of McMahon cutting the live feed, which goes along with the story.

The other witness, who’s an employee of the very TV network, says that WWE wanted a $80,000,000 licensing fee with a projection of $100,000,000. When the network disagreed with this monstrous sum, WWE reduced it to $50,000,000 which was still way out of the $15,500,000 limit the network had set.

It was also alleged that WWE had threatened its talent that their positions on the roster would be in jeopardy if they refused to travel to Saudi Arabia in the future.

[KILLdozer]

So many motha fuckin' asses need to be kicked...