WWE

With "real" sports on the back burner last night, I decided to watch WWE Smackdown.

It's amazing how real life news gets in the way of fake sports.

WWE has contracted with Saudi Arabia to present as many as 20 major wrestling events there over the next 10 years. All well and good. But when the crown prince has a dissident reporter executed by government goons, the world notices.

And now WWE has a major PPV scheduled there for Friday, and some of the bigger name wrestlers (John Cena and Daniel Byran) are choosing not to participate.

That gave me a great main event on Smackdown last night. A.J. Styles versus Daniel Bryan.

A different wrestler, Samoa Joe, is going to Saudi Arabia instead, taking Bryan's place in the co-main event there.

Politics is everywhere, nowadays. You can't escape the political ads. It's amazing how something scripted can't escape the real world either.

sigh

I can't even get fake sports without real world implications...