{"id":895144,"date":"2026-10-26T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:52:11","slug":"rumor-roundup-wwe-talent-unhappy-the-rock-backstage-talk-tna-signings-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895144\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Roundup: WWE talent unhappy, The Rock backstage talk, TNA signings, more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lead Rumor: WWE talent unhappy about Saudi Arabia trip<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">WWE, as of this writing, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/481117\/wwe-crown-jewel-in-riyadh-despite-air-strikes-on-airport-raw-chelsea-green-vs-liv-morgan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moving forward<\/a> with its plan to fly into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to hold its Crown Jewel premium live event scheduled for Sat., Nov. 7, 2026. This despite the most recent security alert from the U.S. stating all non-emergency U.S. government employees are ordered to leave Saudi Arabia due to safety risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Iranian-supported Houthis have engaged in hostilities against Saudi Arabia, including attacks on civilian airports and other critical infrastructure resulting in civilian casualties and severe travel disruptions. The hostilities have the potential to escalate rapidly beyond that immediate area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fightfulselect.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fightful Select<\/a> notes they have \u201cheard from a number of staff and talent who aren\u2019t happy about\u201d WWE still planning to run the show in Riyadh. They remain in communication with their hosts, of course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There is very little time for a change to be made, at this point, though there have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/rumor-round-up\/481281\/rumor-roundup-oct-14-2026-wwe-sticking-with-riyadh-crown-jewel-carmelo-hayes-plans-penta-briefcase-sales\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rumors of a backup location<\/a>. For now, it looks like they are moving ahead, despite how anyone may feel about it.<\/p>\n<p>Other rumors floating around<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">You heard anything? Share it! Or just talk about all this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lead Rumor: WWE talent unhappy about Saudi Arabia trip WWE, as of this writing, is moving forward with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5894,88,94181,94182,4366,122826,94185],"class_list":["post-895144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aew","tag-entertainment","tag-rumor-roundup","tag-tna","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-crown-jewel","tag-wwe-nxt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}