Superkick Party
Atlus / Ryū ga Gotoku
Besides the 50 man Royal Rumble, also announced for the 4/27 "Greatest Royal Rumble," at the 62,000 seat King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is Cena vs. HHH, a ladder match for the IC title with Miz vs. Rollins vs. Balor vs. Joe, and a tag title match with Sheamus & Cesaro vs. The Hardys. There will be no women allowed to wrestle on the show. There are those critical of WWE pushing how much they are behind women wrestling and female empowerment and then doing business with a country where women are treated as second-class and where their women roster members wouldn't be allowed to perform. But in the end, this is a gigantic money deal over ten years and that trumps just about everything. You can't expect high morals from a major corporation, and doubly so from a wrestling promoter. Granted, the key to this argument is about how WWE promotes itself as being on the cusp of revolutionary for women in sports, even when they were a half-century behind tennis and years behind even the UFC, which at one point was being run by people closed-minded that needed their eyes opened. If WWE is even pretending to be revolutionary, or even somewhere nearly up to date, on treatment of women and that's one of their calling cards, and their biggest mainstream star is female, I don't expect them to stand up for that because they are wrestling people, but at that point they have no right to claim anything legitimately when it comes to backing women. Like I said, I don't expect anything, but if you're legit on a cause, sometimes you have to make unpleasant decisions to back that cause. In this case, they failed to do so.