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AEW news, WWE-Saudi, TNA updates

Added 2025-06-26 02:03:40 +0000 UTC

MJF and Mark Briscoe started a program on AEW Dynamite. We're told that this has been a program that MJF had pushed for quite some time and was considered very important to him.
The son of the person who filed the lawsuit against Mox/AEW actually was the guy who handed the AEW Tag Titles to Hurt Syndicate at Dynamite. We're told he has continued working with AEW with no issues.
Regarding Ian Riccaboni working Dynamite of late, we're told that is done during a lot of the double tapings. The decision was made to have Tony Schiavone on interviews during those tapings to lighten his schedule.

WWE

WWE's flight to Saudi Arabia took off at about 5 PM ET today.
There was a full team of producers and Smackdown team sent over.
A number of WWE staff have been in Saudi Arabia for weeks. Another group went over earlier this week, and made it after being briefly stuck in Qatar.
At no point did the Saudi Government (which includes the General Sports Authority, for those that can't comprehend the idea of a wrestling outlet having sources around the government) never doubted the shows were going to take place.
WWE's early start time for WWE Raw next week is so the company can film WWE Smackdown. The roster will be given July 4 off
The King and Queen of the Ring results are being kept quiet internally.
To reiterate, we were told by higher ups that they hadn’t heard of any issue within WWE regarding American Gladiators having AEW talent. This was followed up on this week.

Additional News

Fightful has an interview with Hollyhood Haley J dropping tomorrow.
Fightful Select has obtained a rarity -- a producer list for this Friday's TNA tapings. That is coming this week.
Independent Wrestler Luke Hawx was taken to the hospital and underwent a successful surgery, we’ve learned. We wish him a speedy recovery
Those we spoke to in TNA say that the Pittsburgh tapings went very well for the company and they were happy with the execution.
Check out our Public Enemy feature at this link.

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