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Sami Zayn has been banned from WWE events in Saudi Arabia?

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— Sami Zayn (@SamiZayn) September 20, 2020

WWE have held several pay-per-view events in Saudi Arabia, but Sami Zayn has never been featured on them. Several rumors suggest that the WWE Superstar has been banned from performing in the Middle East.

Sami Zayn, however, claims that there is no truth to this report, to his knowledge. On The Blindboy Podcast, the SmackDown star said that he never bothered about performing in the Middle East, and it became easier as WWE never invited him to perform there. (h/t POST Wrestling)

“To this day I didn’t really ask because I wasn’t really keen on going anyway. But WWE did a thing, a partnership sort of or signed some sort of deal to put on these shows in Saudi Arabia for I don’t know, what? Ten years or something like that, and I just wasn’t invited to go and I never really dug into it too much because I wasn’t keen on going to begin with, but I would like to discuss that for a moment because there is a certain amount… there’s a certain amount of… what’s the word I’m looking for here? You know, it became very popular, very easy to say, ‘Well you shouldn’t go to this country because they do these awful things’ and I understand it and I agree and if I was asked to perform in Israel, I wouldn’t, right?”

Sami Zayn will face AJ Styles and Jeff Hardy at WWE Clash of Champions in a ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship.