Scott D’Amore Weighs In On WrestleMania 43 Heading To Saudi Arabia

Scott D’Amore is the latest wrestling personality to share his thoughts on WrestleMania 43 taking place in Saudi Arabia in 2027. As you likely know, WWE announced that the 2027 iteration will take place in the Kingdom, which has drawn reaction from across the wrestling world. The Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling promoter spoke about the matter in his latest Uncrowned column for Yahoo!, talking about how the move could impact independent wrestling in the US.

“Obviously, the announcement of WrestleMania going to Saudi Arabia in 2027 has not been warmly received by fans,” D’Amore began. “This was probably inevitable — Saudi has been throwing more and more money at sports in general, and at TKO’s (ever-expanding) corner of the sports world in particular. We need to wait and see what this means for the biggest wrestling show of 2027 — there are rumors WWE will hold only one WrestleMania night in Saudi and hold the other in the U.S.”

He continued, “That’s certainly the hope of much of the entire industry in North America. WrestleMania week has long been the biggest week of business for WrestleCon, the Collective and literally dozens of other promotions that have followed ‘Mania around the U.S. for the past few decades. Again, we wait to see what the reality is, but if one night is in the U.S., that’s a huge void other promotions can fill. It would be ironic if someone else ran a major event and took advantage of WWE abandoning the traditional WrestleMania market.”

Tony Khan did note last week that AEW is planning a “huge” event for the spring of 2027.