The United States joining the Israel Air War against Iran this weekend, wrestling fans and industry observers were already asking for possible changes in WWE plans to manage on June 27 Smack down and the Night of the Champions Premium live event the next day in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
After Iran retaliated by pulling ballistic missiles at the Al Udeid air base in Qatar today (June 23), WWE questions have more emergency. The United States and the United Kingdom have asked its citizens of Qatar to shelter in place, and Qatar had closed their airspace in the hours preceding the attack on Iran. There is currently no indication where these orders will be lifted. Journalists on the ground report that explosions, but sources of defense of Qatar’s foreign affairs and the United States’s defense sources say that the base was evacuated before the launch of Iran and that there was therefore no victim.
Fightful Select reports that talents should take chartered flights to Saudi Arabia “in the middle of the week”. Wrestling Observer learned, however, that some WWE production employees who have stolen in advance are now blocked at Qatar airport due to security orders. Qatar shares a border with Saudi Arabia in the Arabian Peninsula.
Social media have seen a closed Saudi airspace spoke and that American fighter planes rush into the kingdom. Official reports have not yet confirmed either. Airlines also cancel flights to and through the region, adding to confusion. An article by Reuters on today’s attack can be read as follows:
After having briefly closed their airspace, Bahrain and Kuwait both reopened them, according to the media of State News. Dubai airports said its operations had resumed after a brief suspension, although it warned against delays or cancellations on the social media site X. Qatar has also closed its airspace.
The conflict has already cut the main flight routes to generally resilient aviation centers such as Dubai, with the most popular international airport in the world and the capital of Doha Qatar. The generally occupied airspace extending from Iran and Iraq to the Mediterranean resembles a ghost town, devoid of commercial air traffic due to aerial space closures and safety problems.
Air India said on Monday that it had stopped all operations in the Middle East, but also on flights to the East Coast and North America. This included diversion flights already in the air to their takeoff site and far from closed air areas.
WWE has not commented on publicly Smack down Or Night of the Champions Status in the light of the conflict in the Middle East. Fightful and the observer say that WWE has not responded to requests on the status of Saudi emissions this week.
Given the lucrative of the relationship with Saudi Arabia for the parent company TKO, most believe that WWE will do everything possible to make sure that the programs take place as planned this weekend. If hostilities continue to degenerate in the region, it may be impossible.
We will continue to provide updates on the situation, the decision -making of WWE and the status of the show as we get them.
Update: President Trump posted on his social platform Truth according to which Iran and Israel have accepted a cessation of cessation which, according to him, will put an end to “the war of the 12 days”. If the ceasefire occurs and holds, it would make decisions that WWE must make much easier.
