WWE Wrestling Smackdown in Cario

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There is a smackdown underway in Egypt. Not because of political unrest, but WWE wrestling.

Thursday night, a three day WWE event got underway in Cairo, the first on Egyptian soil.

Anchor Marco Werman talks to a young Egyptian who was in the crowd fulfilling a childhood dream.

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