With WWE’s Royal Rumble happening in Saudi Arabia, followers already knew ladies’s ring gear would look completely different — however now we all know who’s footing the invoice, and it’s not WWE.
In line with WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Choose, a expertise set to compete within the Ladies’s Royal Rumble match confirmed that the identical strict apparel tips used throughout previous Saudi occasions are nonetheless in place for this 12 months’s present.
However that wasn’t the true shocker. The larger takeaway got here from Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, who spoke with a WWE expertise who revealed that the accountability to satisfy these tips — financially and creatively — fell totally on the wrestlers themselves.
“We’re liable for paying for and having our personal gear made for the present to suit these parameters,” the unnamed expertise mentioned.
The supply additionally confirmed that there was no coordinated effort from WWE to assist expertise distinguish their gear from one another’s within the match — which may create challenges in a 30-woman bout the place many outfits might look visually comparable.
“There was no coordinated effort to make it possible for something was differentiated from others within the match.”
This isn’t the primary time WWE’s Saudi partnership has created behind-the-scenes changes for expertise, however the replace makes it clear: feminine superstars are anticipated to deal with the apparel challenge themselves — even when the rules are pushed by the situation’s cultural restrictions.
Whereas some WWE stars have debuted iconic full-body seems to be throughout Saudi reveals previously, this new data reveals simply how a lot of that accountability lands squarely on the wrestlers — from design to fee.