Last year for the first time, American female wrestlers with the WWE competed in a match during the company’s annual Super Showdown pay-per-view event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was the fifth time the event had been held in Saudi and the first time in Riyadh. This year, the company went back to Riyadh and a different pair of women were invited to tag along to star in a championship match. The WWE and crown prince Muhammad Bin Salman al Saud both see this as the natural progression of not just the women’s movement within wrestling, but the women’s movement within the kingdom.
female wrestlers with the WWE competed in a match during the company’s annual Super Showdown pay-per-view event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was the fifth time the event had been held in Saudi and the first time in Riyadh. This year, the company went back to Riyadh and a different pair of women were invited to tag along to star in a championship match.
One of the conditions of the women being allowed to wrestle in Saudi Arabia is that they adhere to the kingdom’s dress code, modeled after Muslim dress standards. This means that Naomi, a WWE Superstar and former champion, who usually wrestles in form-fitting gear that highlights her six-pack, was required to wrestle in an oversized shirt with coverage of her neckline, ankles, and wrists. As a former hijabi, modest dress codes are not the hill I choose to die on, but the issue here is that the code is not extended to the male wrestlers, who still get to compete in the pleather panties they wear in the U.S.
If I am to believe the lies that Vince McMahon and MBS are united for progressive ideals and equality, then shouldn’t things appear slightly more equal? Perhaps unknown to those outside of Islam, there is actually a ruling on modest dress for men, who are asked to cover their bodies, not wear tight-fitting clothes, and not expose themselves to unknown women. And yet male wrestlers like
Goldberg, The Miz, Ricochet, and Angel Garza were all allowed to get into the ring in a mixed-gender audience in Saudi Arabi with their bulges on full display. Far be it from me to discourage any man who is proud of his bulge but last time I checked, that shit doesn’t fly in the kingdom.
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