In a totally unpublished way in WWE's history, a live show of the company, suffered an interruption in its television broadcast. This is today's SmackDown from the Kingdom Arena in Riad, Saudi Arabia.
And it is that the show started in Netflix and, exactly, at 10:41 a transmission minutewhile Cody Rhodes was going to respond to Randy Orton's promo, who had already made a promo against Cody and everything to heat his rival for tomorrow in the King of the Ring 2025 tournament that will be held at the Premium Night of Champions 2025 event, the transmission was frozen.
► This was the cut in the television broadcast of SmackDown from Saudi Arabia
In fact it was cut at minute 10:41 we have been off the air for 27 minutes YOU SHOULD RESTART THE SHOW #SmackDown #SaudiArabia #Netflix pic.twitter.com/61Aj7RLEDv
– El Capi Breton (@Bretonrivera) June 27, 2025
A few seconds, Netflix put a screen offering forgiveness for the delay and put the vignette that is broadcast during “we have returned.” A few minutes later, fans from Arabia uploaded a few videos that the segment between Orton and Rhodes continued in the sand.
WWE He issued a tweet offering fans out of the United States who were watching the show and promised that he would soon be back in Netflix. However, the failed lasted a total of 40 minutes before WWE returned to the air with Michael Cole and Wade Barrett excusing themselves at the commentators' table and welcoming them again.
Finally the broadcast came back 😍😍😍😍😍#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/Juj5kgvTY5
– Ali (@Finn_sa1) June 27, 2025
Some fans in the sand reported that the giant screens were also paid, so the clearest theory at this time is that the light went throughout the sand, but it will have to be confirmed. Are pending super struggles for any update of the case.
🚨 BREAKING: It seems the power in the WHOLE arena cut off during #SmackDownnot just the broadcast pic.twitter.com/C46fzX4ZqT
— jace (@vurawrestling) June 27, 2025
