#IC belt match literally had a fucked finish it is a TV match

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WWE's Saudi Arabia PPV events are so interesting to me because like, Saudi Arabia has some of the biggest stadiums on Earth and love sportswashing so the presentation is always Wrestlemania-level huge but the WWE side is always so phoned in because the Saudi government barely actually cares about the context or content of the show. Like, when the Saudi government and WWE were initially pitching event ideas the Saudi government requested Yokozuna to show up despite Yokozuna having been dead for literally almost 25 years

Like, almost all of the matches are Raw main event caliber but so long as Logan Paul, Cody Rhodes, and Rhea Ripley are on the show they don't give a shit. The matches were good but the intercontinental 3 way is literally like, an upper-mid level TV main event and Liv Morgan vs Becky Lynch just feels like they've been hot potatoing the belt around because they didn't wanna give Becky or Liv an actual consequential feud before Rhea got back and Nia Jax was already on tournament duty.

Any feuds that could've played into the King/Queen of the Ring tournament already played out on TV like, within the first two rounds anyway except for Randy Orton and Tama Tonga. Tama Tonga vs Jey Uso would've actually been a pretty important match for the whole Bloodline story too but they like, almost deliberately avoided doing that because they seemingly did not wanna waste an important match on a Saudi PPV, and because Saudi doesn't give a shit because they get to see Randy Orton instead.

This isn't even mentioning the last Saudi event, Crown Jewel 2023, which might be the most filler live event I've ever seen. Like, Rhea Ripley defeats the entire Raw women's midcard? Logan Paul takes the 4th most important belt in WWE off of 104 year old Rey Mysterio? LA Knight gets his obligatory non-clean loss to Roman that everyone gets when they transition from the midcard to the main event? The build to every Saudi PPV is always the most "we need to fill 4 weeks of television" shit of all time they DO NOT care.