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Surprising Superstar Featured In Promo For WWE Night Of Champions PLE In Saudi Arabia

WWE have announced they will be returning to Saudi Arabia for the Night of Champions Premium Live Event on June 28 of this year. And an unexpected face appeared in the announcement video.
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WWE will return to Saudi Arabia next month as Night of Champions emanates from Riyadh on Saturday, June 28.

The event will take place at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh and will be the second time the Night of Champions Premium Live Event has been hosted in Saudi Arabia, following the 2023 edition in Jeddah.

Night of Champions will be the only PLE to take place in Saudi Arabia this year, as the Royal Rumble will come live from the Kingdom in January next year, meaning Crown Jewel, usually a staple of the Saudi calendar for WWE has moved to Perth, Australia for one year only.

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One interesting point of note from the promo video advertising the event was that CM Punk was briefly shown on screen. Punk is well known to oppose working the shows in Saudi Arabia and has not worked one since rejoining WWE in 2023.

Punk was written off television ahead of last year's Crown Jewel, following his Hell In A Cell match with Drew McIntyre at Bad Blood.

Whether Punk's appearance on the promo was simply a mistake or a signifier that the Straight Edge Superstar will actually appear on the show remains to be seen.

Night of Champions taking place on June 28 means there is just a three week turnaround from Money In The Bank, which will be hosted at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles on June 7.

The last Night of Champions took place in 2023 in Saudi Arabia and was headlined by Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn successfully defending the WWE Tag Team Titles against the team of Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa.

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JOE BAIAMONTE

Joe Baiamonte is a contributing writer for The Takedown On SI, joining the team in April, 2025. Joe has been covering professional wrestling, sports and entertainment for over a decade, serving as editor at SPORTbible between 2014 and 2018 - where he helped the team to three consecutive Football Blogging Awards - and as head of sport at Unilad. Joe has written for numerous outlets in the United Kingdom and United States, including The Sportsman, Sporf, Pubity, GiveMeSport and The Sportster, interviewing the likes of Neymar, Harry Kane, Ruud Gullit, Triple H, Ric Flair, Cody Rhodes, Becky Lynch, Rey Mysterio, Aaron Boone, Alex Cora, Chris Sale and Chase Uttley. He has a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism and Broadcasting from the University of Salford and currently resides in Manchester, England, having been raised just down the road in Burnley. He briefly moved to Croatia with his family after the birth of his son, where he spent an entire summer writing on the beach and eating squid.

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