Renee Young Speaks On Incredible Experience During Saudi Arabia WWE PPVs

Renee Young is a pioneer for a number of things she has done in her WWE career. She is the first and only full-time female commentator in the history of Monday Night RAW, the longest-running weekly episodic television show in history. Plus, she is also the one particular woman who made it to a PPV event broadcasted from Saudi Arabia country.

This was a major deal as Due to local laws, female WWE Superstars were unable to travel with the company to the Kingdom to perform on their earlier events. Back in 2018 Crown Jewel, WWE made some progress when Renee Young did commentary and then again at Super ShowDown 2019, making her the first female talent of WWE to feature in a Saudi TV show.

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The first-ever women’s division match was to be held at Super ShowDown 2019, with Alexa Bliss vs. current WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Natalya but it was pushed back to Crown Jewel of that year where Natalya defeated Lacey Evans. That being said, Renee Young is one of the handful of names who got the experience of traveling to the middle-east country and get to know the culture.

During a recent interview with WrestlingInc, the former WWE announcer and interviewer Renee Young (now known as Renee Paquette) talked about being the first woman in WWE to work a televised show in Saudi Arabia. Renee Young mentioned that it was a lifetime experience for her that she will never forget. Here’s what she had to say in detail,

“I’ll never forget going to Saudi Arabia. Being the first woman on a broadcast with WWE and the only woman on the show, and walking out to our commentary desk and having little girls in Saudi Arabia in the crowds coming up. They knew my name, they wanted to say hi. That was something I’ll never forget. It was so cool.

Jon [Moxley] ended up coming with me, and Jon wasn’t booked on the show. He flew over there with me because you hear of all the customs of like, ‘You can’t go anywhere without a man from your family.’ I just wasn’t sure what I was walking into customs wise, and adjusting to a new country and understanding what their rules and regulations were. Even in terms of what I’m supposed to wear, how I am supposed to conduct myself. Honestly though the whole experience was incredible.”

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Renee Young would proceed to mention that seeing the global WWE Superstars for the kids and women of Saudi Arabia were a big deal for the country as they are willing to make more progress in the coming days. So the expressions of the people said it all.

“There’s nothing better than just being able to experience another part of the world, and experience how other people live and see the way these other women are living and see how quickly things are honestly really progressing over there,” Renee Young continued.

“As much as they’re behind us here obviously in the west, but seeing the stuff they’re able to do there now. The fact that women were at the shows and going out shopping and just being out in the community doing stuff.

I feel like everyone welcomed me with open arms. Just from the second I even got to the hotel to having people greeting us and being really excited. I had so many fans in Saudi Arabia that were just waiting for the WWE crew to show up. They were so happy to have a woman there. That made me feel really really good to be there and to be received like that.”

There have been a lot of fan backlashes over WWE hosting shows in Saudi Arabia but that would certainly not prohibit the company from hosting more such PPV events in the future. Renee Young would obviously not be a part of those as she had parted ways with the company.