Jack Swagger beat his tomato can.
I'm certain he'll get mulched in his title fight, and I wish they'd find less embarrassing jobbers for him to squash, but it's at least a better buildup than he ever got in WWE.
I don't try to be mad on the internet here, but Goldberg is the biggest hypocrite.
Back in the WCW days, between 1998-2000, he would outright refuse to do any shows in Germany, because of what they done to the Jews.
Now, he wrestles in Saudi-Arabia, a country that till this day, wishes that all the jews would die.
I guess his religion is not that important after all.
Maybe he legitimately thinks he's being more mature by doing this.
He'd be utterly wrong. Saudi Arabia's been promoting the nastiest anti-Semitism there is on a worldwide scale for decades now. But he'd at least be approacing it from an attempt at doing the right thing.
This Saudi thing is just so wrong. Even Antonio Inoki's North Korea show, which was also wrong, was motivated out of a genuine respect for the Korean people and a desire to achieve peace (Inoki's mentor Rikidozan was a Korean Japanese, born Kim Sin-Rak).
That's not at all what's going on here. This is Vince McMahon doing propaganda for a regime that blatantly murders lawful American residents; runs its economy off Filipino and African slave labor; sponsors terrorism and the most retrograde religious fanaticism in existence today on a global scale; and, even with the recent reforms taken into account, treats women worse than any other country that exists.
China does even more fucked up things, but at least WWE's Chinese shows don't involve doing propaganda for Beijing. At least, not yet, but we've seen they'd be open to it.
VKM totally would've done the same for the Third Reich if he was born at a different time. The Olympic Committee did it themselves, and the nasty character of the regime was already apparent to anyone who read Mein Kampf.
Saudi's aren't considered to be white so it's okay for them to do what they do.
This is a lie, and it wouldn't be a motivating factor even if it was true. North Africans, Arabs, and Turks only ever say they're not white to guilt-trip SJWs and absolve themselves from running their own colonial empires in earlier centuries.
Not that being non-white prevents someone from being racist anyway. That's also a lie, and anyone who says it deserves to be ethnically cleansed by Zanzibari militants.
Also, those people can pay him more for one show than he received in a year at WCW.
This is definitely a factor, even if my charitable interpretation is true.
I wonder what Danielle Radcliffe aka Harry Potter will have to do with AEW or he's probably just hanging around? I hope Vince doesn't see this and get crazy ideas like "Let's sign a magician pally!" or "Let's create a magician character!"
There's a 1% chance at best Vince McMahon knows who Harry Potter is, and lower still for Daniel Radcliffe.
He didn't even know where Scott Hall got the idea for Razor Ramon from.