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#5. Hope isn't true: NXT stars needed a police escort to enter the SmackDown arena

NXT invaded SmackDown

The build to Survivor Series has an interesting new addition to make it interesting this year - RAW vs SmackDown vs NXT. Making the theme RAW vs SmackDown wouldn't have sold well this year because WWE had followed the Wild Card rule for six months.

Due to the said issues in Saudi Arabia, the majority of the SmackDown crew were stuck in Riyadh and weren't able to make it on time for the show. As a result, WWE had to resort to flying out several top NXT talent - most of whom had a significant role in the show.

However, the tension for WWE lasted up until the show because the talent flying from Orlando cut it extremely close. John Pollock of Post Wrestling revealed that the talent only landed from the charter flight at around 7:55 PM.

Was told the NXT charter didn't land until 7:55 pm and they had a police escort to get them to the building. One person I spoke with added they could not have cut it any closer to get everyone in place for the third segment when Shayna Baszler made her appearance.

— John Pollock (@iamjohnpollock) November 2, 2019

Moreover, they were shockingly escorted by police up until the arena. While there's no way to confirm it unless one of the NXT talents speaks out, we hope it isn't true because the entire situation seemed like a huge mess. We're glad that they managed to successfully steer through it.