In a recent interview with the Table Talk podcast, WWE referee Jessika Carr commented on the backstory of creating history at the WWE Crown Jewel event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by becoming the first woman to referee a WWE event in the country, as well as the first woman to referee a Hell in a Cell match.

Carr noted that Edge had requested for her to be the referee for the match following Carr reffing Edge’s return to Madison Square Garden.

“It was something that happened progressively, starting at SummerSlam to be honest with you. At this point in his career, Edge likes working with people that he’s comfortable with in the ring, as far as referees are concerned and that person, for the longest time, one of them has always been Charles Robinson. At SummerSlam, Charles wasn’t planned to be there, so it was a discussion between him and Edge of hey, do you want to give Jessika a chance, I think Jessika will be a good option. Edge was all about giving me an opportunity to learn, to be in the ring with someone that has gone through all the things he has in his career.

That was the first step of doing it at SummerSlam and I stepped up to the plate obviously of doing all the things and got a lot of kudos from that and that was amazing, the second chapter of that was Madison Square Garden and that was very shocking because Charles was there and I don’t know whose decision that was, or what the story was with that, but to then be at Madison Square Garden and have Edge vs. Seth was a tip of the hat. I stepped up to the plate at Madison Square Garden and I was literally standing in gorilla with Edge and Edge asking Vince, can we have her in Saudi Arabia and Vince was like yeah, I think we can make that happen. It just paralleled fter that and things had to be put in place, as far as communicating with who they had to communicate with in Saudi and it has to go through extra steps and layers to make sure everyone is okay with it.”

The full interview is available at this link.