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WWE News: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Jinder Mahal Set for July Live Events, Ric Flair Attends Indy 500, and OSN CEO Comments on WWE Wal3ooha

May 28, 2017 | Posted by Jeffrey Harris
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– WWE Hall of Famer appeared at the Indianapolis 500 this weekend, and he was interviewed by Naomi Pescovitz on the red carpet, which you can check out below.

WrestlingInc.com reports WWE is currently advertising WWE title matches with Jinder Mahal defending his title against Shinsuke Nakamura for upcoming WWE Smackdown brand house shows in July. Orton is currently not scheduled for these events, so it’s possible Nakamura could be filling in for Orton.

CPI Financial recently spoke with OSN CEO Martin Stewart on the new WWE Arabic TV show, WWE Wal3ooha, which recently premiered on OSN Sports Action 1 HD. Speaking on the relationship with WWE and wanting the company to create more Arab Superstars, Stewart stated:

“The first step that I think that we’ve taken together is to have the tryouts in Dubai,” Stewart said. “We were very vocal with WWE to bring them here to do the tryouts because we need to see more Arab superstars — more Sami Zayns. That’s important to us. The tryouts have gone very well and we will be following the progress of all the people that get selected as they go through the development programme and hopefully live on OSN on NXT, Raw, Smackdown or even Wrestlemania. We’ll follow their story, and that will hopefully be the first of many initiatives to make sure we have as much of a WWE presence in the middle east as possible.”