Saudi Arabia embraced ‘trashy’ Americana over the weekend, hosting a WWE Royal Rumble event for which a video clip of scantily clad female wrestlers drew euphoric cheers from men and women alike.
The promotional video elicited a quick mea culpa from the governmental organisers in the Muslim kingdom with conservative mores.
“We apologise to the viewers and attendees who watched the WWE event held in Jeddah yesterday, for the clips aired of women dressed indecently,” the kingdom’s General Sports Authority said in a statement Saturday.
Such images, it said, were “banned” and would remain so.
That didn’t stop Saudi attendees from posting videos of the uncensored moment on social media.
In a video posted on Instagram, a jumbo-trons in Jeddah lit up with the WWE’s latest promo video, which was also shown on big screens at the event itself, in which female wrestlers did…
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