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Andreas HaleSep 12, 2025, 03:49 PM ET
- Andreas Hale is simply a combat sports newsman astatine ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas' escaped time, helium plays video games, obsesses implicit euphony and is simply a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is besides a big for Sirius XM's Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a elder writer astatine DAZN and Sporting News. He started his vocation arsenic a euphony writer for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z's Life+Times. He is besides an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker arsenic a shaper for the animated abbreviated movie "Bridges" successful 2024.
LAS VEGAS -- For the archetypal time, WrestleMania volition instrumentality spot extracurricular North America erstwhile the "Showcase of the Immortals" heads to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia arsenic portion of "Riyadh Season" successful 2027, WWE announced connected Friday.
Since its inception successful 1985, WrestleMania has lone been hosted successful North American cities. WWE Chief Creative Officer, Paul "Triple H" Levesque has teased the thought of the company's biggest lawsuit traveling overseas and present that volition go a reality.
"This is an accidental to amusement the satellite that WWE is simply a planetary marque that reaches each country of the satellite and excites fans from everywhere," Levesque said.
The ceremonial announcement comes conscionable days aft Turki Alalshikh, president of Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority, was seen connected a since deleted Snapchat unrecorded video stating that WrestleMania volition marque the determination to Saudi Arabia.
"WrestleMania is already the biggest day connected the wrestling calendar and this announcement marks a important infinitesimal successful our concern with WWE," Alalshikh said successful a statement. "We profoundly respect the bequest of WrestleMania and the planetary prestige It holds among wrestling fans astir the world.
"As portion of Riyadh Season successful 2027, our imaginativeness is to elevate this iconic lawsuit to unprecedented heights and present a WrestleMania dissimilar thing the satellite has ever seen."
WWE has been hosting events successful Saudi Arabia since 2018, erstwhile the promotion and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia agreed to a $1 cardinal woody that would spot the institution tally aggregate shows successful the state implicit the adjacent 10 years. Next year's Royal Rumble volition beryllium the archetypal of the "Big Four" WWE PLE events to instrumentality spot successful Saudi Arabia.
WrestleMania 42 volition beryllium held astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas connected Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19, 2026. It volition beryllium the 2nd consecutive clip that Las Vegas has hosted WrestleMania.
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