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#3. What did the company tell the Superstars who didn't want to travel to Saudi Arabia?

Super ShowDown had many absentees and Kevin Owens and Daniel Bryan were the biggest of the lot, who voluntarily turned down the offer to be a part of the show in Saudi Arabia.

On the latest edition of Sportskeeda's Dropkick DiSKussions podcast, Tom Colohue revealed the WWE management's message to the talents who did not wish to make the trip to the Middle East.

The decision to go or not was up to the Superstars themselves and the company didn't pressurize anyone to be a part of the show.

Tom revealed:

What they say to the talent and what has been quoted to me is they say, ‘look, if you don’t want to go, you don’t have to go. It’s up to you.’ That’s what they are saying, sounds very magnanimous and really in many ways it is, but there will be reactions to that.

There will be consequence even if they are not, shall we say, direct or intentional sometimes. There is always a consequence of some action. So it’s a tricky one. It’s a difficult position to put yourself in especially if you do it voluntarily but people have made that choice and I give them all the credit in the world to stand by what they believe in.