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No matter what the real story ends up being, it's clear folks are pissed that the top guys got to go home (the "Top 20" referenced) while the rest of the crew was left behind. Luke Harper made a similar "I'm not in the Top 20" post on Instagram.

Being nice to the Saudis until they were sure everyone was clear might end up being the only smart thing they did in the whole ordeal.

Depending on what comes out between now and Monday, Raw could be a hell of a show.

Xavier Woods has long been the rare fun wrestling Twitter follow, but he's been ramping it up since he has so much time on his hands since tearing his Achilles. He was talking about getting ready for another convention despite his injury and I literally lol'ed at him ending up going as Professor X complete with his hover-wheelchair gimmick.

A billion dollar company in a country with basically infinite money at their disposal, and no one can find another plane for nearly a whole day? Especially when the upper echelon folks were able to? The current official explanation doesn't hold up to even the smallest amount of scrutiny.

They mentioned at the Q3 investor conference deal that they expected to have a Middle East TV deal in place by now, and there was a story that came out a few days ago on how the Saudi government was dragging their feet on a deal they had with Canada to pay them for military equipment. So it kind of lines up that perhaps Vince was pissed they didn't have a TV deal and got into a dick waving contest with the Prince. If any of that turns out to be close to what happened, the talent should be furious to be left behind stuck in a potentially hostile foreign country when Vince and his crew got themselves their own plane and bounced.

Funny thing is what should have exposed him to the world was when the Young Bucks put him on blast for sliding in their DMs offering to work a program with them after bashing them saying it's the only program people would believe. It's why I believe he does it to try to stay relevant. He may actually believe the shit he says, but he would put that aside to work with them in a heartbeat.

He doesn't block when it works for the gimmick.

He doesn't deserve to be "cancelled" but he needs to learn that there's things that don't fly in 2019 and doing a misogynist gimmick on Twitter (even against someone he feels has ulterior motives) is not going to look good to his employers. Also it's pretty funny that woman was snitch tagging the NWA and Billy on all of Cornette's potentially problematic tweets when his own fanboys snitch tag him on anyone's tweet that mentions any topic that would get him riled up.

Figured it was a WWE deal since he was still running the school when he was doing stuff for Impact a few months ago. Plus you'd think AEW has a light enough schedule he would have been able to keep the school open.

Shit luck in this case meaning they did a show on the other side of the world the day before Smackdown. This isn't like that time they got stranded by a blizzard and they had to do Raw from the WWE studio, that was a shit happens moment. This was scheduling shows as far apart as the planet allows in the span of 24 hours allowing for virtually no margin of error. It sucks that the Saudi government is using WWE to whitewash their treatment of women with the implication that having that match means they are somehow loosening restrictions. It does seem to be a big deal to young girls there so I suppose that's a silver lining, but it's hard to square it being a world changing moment when they still require women to be accompanied in public.

Speaking of, we know Bryan's deal but how did Miz manage to not have to go?

You're not wrong but I'm guessing the show was written with the idea the crowd might try to What Chant an NXT person so they have Uncle Paul cut the go home promo.

So the key to a good Adam Cole match is to have Daniel twist him into a pretzel.

I suppose Rhea vs Shayna is the women's equivalent to a hoss match, and I can't wait for it.

"Dear Fox, we just put the folks from what was until last month our developmental brand over the folks from the show you paid $500 million for. Kthanxbai, Vince"

Daniel Bryan vs Mr. Britt Baker!

Sudden heel Renee Young is jarring on commentary. It's like just because she's filling in for Graves she thinks she needs to act like him.

Every time I hear those EKG beeps I think Taz not Chiampa.

Matt Riddle is a superstar on his first day at the main roster. Can't wait for Vince to repackage him as Smokey R and book him 50-50.

Meanwhile, Fox execs are like "what the FUCK, Vince?".

It would be a good idea if Brock's willing to play ball.

Grumpy jetlagged Brock killing people for two hours works for me.

Was this in regards to something from his podcast or his Twitter rants?

Just spitballing here, maybe the next time they do a Thursday Saudi show they should just run Smackdown there the next day. Even if everything would have gone according to plan, having 3/4ths of your roster flying across the world to run a show on 3 hours rest is kind of fucked up.