Max Caster’s TNA run appears to be over almost as quickly as it started after his controversial Riyadh lyric at Bound For Glory sparked backlash inside and outside the company.
Caster made his TNA debut at the show and immediately found himself in hot water after dropping a line that hit especially hard because of what had just happened in Saudi Arabia. During his entrance freestyle, Caster rapped, “I drop bombs, you don’t even have to fly to Riyadh.” The line came just one day after the deadly attack at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, and fans wasted no time tearing into Caster for using the situation as part of his entrance.
Now the fallout has gotten much bigger. Sources tell False Finish that TNA will no longer be working with Caster, and the lyric is said to have raised eyebrows not only inside the company but also among TNA’s global partners.
TNA has also gone into full cleanup mode when it comes to Caster’s Bound For Glory appearance. The company first removed the video featuring his entrance rap from its official X account. Anyone trying to visit the original link is now met with:
“Hmm… this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.”
And it didn’t stop there. TNA has since removed all videos and photos tied to Caster’s appearance at Bound For Glory, making it pretty clear the company wants as much distance from the situation as possible.
As Ringside News previously covered, fans were already demanding action after Caster’s Riyadh line, with some calling on TNA to fire him and others wanting the company to address what happened publicly.
The timing was always going to make this one ugly. Caster has built his wrestling persona around pushing boundaries with freestyle bars, but bringing up bombs and Riyadh right after a deadly attack turned what was supposed to be a heel entrance into a much bigger problem.
TNA still hasn’t publicly announced that it has cut ties with Caster, but between the social media purge and the word coming out that the company is done working with him, his run looks like it may have ended after just one night. That would make this one of the quickest collapses of a debut in recent memory. One show. One entrance. One line. And apparently one very fast exit.
Do you think TNA made the right move by ending its relationship with Max Caster after the Riyadh lyric, or should the company have handled it differently? Let us know what you think and leave your feedback in the comments.
