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Welcome to the Uncrowned Wrestling Show. Solomonster here with you for Tuesday, October 27th, 2026 Happy early Halloween too, by the way. It's my favorite holiday. I saw Clayface last week. Highly recommend, unless you're not into body horror, then you might want to skip that one. I was thinking for Halloween, I might dress up as Ariel Helwani and scare Dana White, but I think I'll keep it simple this year. Do the Macho Man get up again. How about this? TNA Hall of Famer Amazing Red officially back under contract with the promotion. He won the X Division title of Bound for Glory, first time in 16 years that he held that championship. So he is under contract, as is Shotzi Blackheart. That's two of our champions right there in House of Glory. Not only is Shotzi signed with TNA, she pulled a Rick Rude last week by appearing on two different wrestling TV shows on the same night. This was back on Thursday. You know, ravishing Rick Rude, he once famously appeared on Raw and Nitro in the same night. Raw was taped, Nitro was live, and there he was out there on two different channels at the same time. So first, it was MLW Fusion. Shotzi was out there fighting the Hate Faction out of Stardom and teasing a match against Sia Kamatani, who is one of the best wrestlers in the world right now. That was on Tubi at 8 p.m. Then at 9 p.m. on AMC, it was TNA Impact. She made a surprise appearance. And I think MLW had like another five or six episodes from their July tapings that still have not aired yet. And she's still the MLW Women's Champion on all of them. So she's going to be there a while yet. But I mean, Shotzi has been everywhere this year, not just TNA and MLW and House of Glory, but GCW, Maple Leaf Pro. She made her CMLL debut earlier this year. She's been killing it since leaving WWE.

It's been kind of slow when it comes to hard news, but that doesn't mean I don't have any news for you. I got plenty, including thoughts on last night's RAW. So I'm going to get you all caught up and then take your questions at the end. We got some good ones. Make sure you're subscribed to the Ariel Helwani Show feed and the Uncrowned Wrestling Show feed. You can find this show in both places each and every Tuesday.

The latest on Crown Jewel is that it is still full speed ahead for WWE. Construction is already underway for their makeshift stadium in Riyadh. This is despite new warnings from the US government and them ordering all non-essential diplomatic personnel and their family members to leave Saudi Arabia amid escalating attacks by the rebel forces. Multiple events in Riyadh have already been canceled or postponed. I've talked about that. The US embassy in Riyadh issued a new security alert on Wednesday warning of further attacks. Per the New York Times, a new US intelligence memo issued on Friday is raising further security concerns.

In the memo, it informed the Secretary of State that agencies have received intelligence that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target US personnel. The lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against US citizens have reached advanced stages in both the Middle East and certain other countries. I said this the other day. I feel like I'm watching a Dark Side of the Ring episode in real time. It's just it's so irresponsible, like maybe not financially. Financially, they may look at it as the only responsible thing to do, is to honor their commitment because it's all about the money. But it is irresponsible in literally every other way, more than anything that they have ever done. When you consider how many people are impacted by this. Ari Emanuel, he went on Fox News to promote his book. He was asked about Crown Jewel and other events of theirs coming to Saudi. He said, right now, everything is still set. So far, so good. Nothing has been canceled. We have a whole team working on this, and if that doesn't happen, we can move it. It's a daily monitoring situation, basically. I think all of the key executives should be traveling to Saudi with the roster. Nick Khan, Ari Emanuel, Mark Shapiro, all of them. Every single one of them should be going on this trip. Raw next week is in Brooklyn. It's starting early at 6 p.m. Eastern on Netflix because they're taping SmackDown right after because they're going to be flying out to Riyadh later in the week. CM Punk against Kevin Owens has already been announced for that SmackDown show. Possibly because neither one of them wanted to go to Riyadh this time. If so, I don't blame them. I mean, they're big enough names that if they say they don't want to go, no one is going to pressure them into doing so. But speaking of Raw, let's talk about Raw from last night. It was ladies night last night on Raw, very much like SmackDown on Friday, except a much better show overall. But we had three women's matches last night. Although the main one that was advertised all week is the one that we ended up not actually getting. Stephanie Viqueur, she was not medically cleared. So instead of a number one contenders match against Becky Lynch, Becky Lynch got an impromptu Women's World Championship match. And Adam Pearce made the announcement at the beginning of the show before he was interrupted by the WWE champion, the guy from the other show, Sami Zayn. And he came out there and he cut. It was a very long promo. It was a very good promo. Talked about being disrespected and, you know, talked about all these different people that are are gunning for him and people just taking him lightly like Roman Reigns and their face off in the ring last week. He ends up getting interrupted by Javon Evans.