POST Wrestling has reported that Nick Khan spoke with staff in a TKO staff meeting on 4/27, how WWE is handling its upcoming Saudi Arabia shows.
The WWE President told staff that the company was monitoring the situation in the Middle East, ahead of Night of Champions emanating from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 27, adding that WWE would only run the premium live event itself in the country with no location mentioned on the SmackDown and Raw surrounding that weekend.
We are monitoring with our heads of security internally and with our government affairs folks externally, the situation there. If U.S. citizens are allowed in at this moment in time, it is declared and deemed safe, we’ll all be going there.
Saudi is deeply desirous of getting WWE back there and getting events restarted, especially those that come from the United States.
After acknowledging the challenge of running WrestleMania in the same location two years in a row, Khan went on to tease the location announcement for the 2028 edition of WrestleMania after company takes its biggest show of the year to Riyadh in 2027:
Wait until you hear the announcement on where we’re going to be for WrestleMania in 2028.
Elsewhere in the town hall meeting, TKO executies discussed the use of AI within WWE and UFC, with TKO President and COO Mark Shapiro calling the embrace of the technology a “major priority,” emphasizing how it could help employees become more efficient and productive.
Explaining the use of AI within WWE, Shapiro said:
Nick Khan and Triple H are using AI for storylines with the WWE. What’s resonating? What superstars are resonating? In what pockets of the country are they resonating? That helps us with, obviously, our content, our editorial, our creative, our mapping, our touring, and of course, maximizing revenue and getting our product out to the fans most in need of it.