“Cast members of a popular television show asking people to pray for them and privately telling a leading industry reporter they were being held hostage would be strange. Them doing so while they were, to all appearances, simply stranded in Saudi Arabia due to an airplane’s mechanical issues would be stranger. No one, including the performers, seeming to be quite sure what happened would be strangest of all.” Vice: Why Were a Bunch of Wrestlers From ‘SmackDown’ Trapped in Saudi Arabia?