Possible Royal Rumble spoiler inadvertently airs during WWE SmackDown
An error may have spoiled who the first entrant is in one of tomorrow’s Royal Rumble matches.
On the live edition Friday’s SmackDown in Saudi Arabia that streamed on Netflix internationally, Fraxiom were making their way to the ring when suddenly a graphic was shown at the bottom of the screen indicating Bron Breakker drew number 1 in the men’s Royal Rumble match. The graphic was taken down just as quickly as it was put up.
During the USA Network airing, the error was removed.
A somewhat similar situation took place last year when WWE decided to reshoot an angle between Logan Paul and John Cena that closed out SmackDown, with two different versions of Paul’s sucker punch airing on Netflix and the USA Network respectively.
Breakker was put into the Royal Rumble match on Raw after Adam Pearce chose to lift his indefinite suspension, saying it was himself that got physical first by grabbing Breakker during their altercation. He also put all the members of The Vision into the Royal Rumble match. After Austin Theory beat Rey Mysterio in a match, the rest of the Vision took out Penta and Dragon Lee. Announcers pushed that a phone call Pearce got last week may be leading the group into getting preferential treatment moving forward.
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