The last time Hogan mattered in the slightest was the double turn with the Rock. I won't be watching. As for the rest of the card, I'm not interested. They didn't even bother setting up a storyline for the Brothers of Destruction versus DX feud. There isn't even a plausible kayfabe storyline; it's simply obvious that Shawn got enough money to come out of retirement, Hunter can put himself over the Brothers, Undertaker shows up whenever he feels like it, and unlike Brock Lesnar, it simply doesn't matter, and Kane is once again involved in something as distasteful as Katie Vick, but simply follows instructions. This is coming from a huge fan of HHH, Undertaker, and Kane, by the way - Michaels, not so much.
Even without the affair in Turkey, this is still a joke, as was the last Saudi PPV. You're forgetting that a lot of the fans were annoyed with the previous one. WWE has gone to the well one too many times here. It's pretty bad when they can't push the event on live TV (like they do every other PPV) out of fear of getting booed out of the arena.
Oh I completely agree that Hogan is irrelevant, but there are a lot of fans, especially on the smark side, who're suckers for nostalgia. They're all for older stars making appearances, especially if they were huge stars and/or childhood favorites; they're even all for these guys having "one more match" until the match actually happens, stinks up the place then they turn around and jump down WWE's throat for putting on the match in the first place. Besides, this show isn't for traditional WWE fans, it's for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia first and foremost. Even on paper, it's a glorified house show with a few things thrown in to help make it newsworthy. The "WWE World Cup" will have no meaning beyond the show itself, just like the "Greatest Royal Rumble" match for the first show but its got several stars from the Attitude Era and 2000s. There'll be a new Universal Champion no matter what, that should be Strowman by all rights, there might even be a new WWE Champion with Samoa Joe finally getting the strap. The BOD vs. DX is, again, almost entirely for the Crown Prince because he's primarily a fan of wrestlers who came about in the 90s and first half of the 2000s. Again, nostalgia will also play a part here with some fans because it's an opportunity to see these two teams go at it and it's HBK's first match in close to 9 years; I mean, that's all the story the match needs when you get right down to it. You may not be excited about it and I'm not all that excited about it either, but guys like Taker, HBK and Triple H do still matter in the eyes of a lot of fans. They're still favorites of mine, but it's time to hang it up. Taker genuinely tries his best but his body is pretty much shot, Kane is starting to get out of shape and he has political obligations that are going to kick in soon, HBK has probably lost several steps himself given that he's the same age as Taker and Triple H is close to 50 himself and looks like he's just one big walking, talking PED. One thing I do like that's going on with DX is that Trips and HBK aren't out there acting like a couple of juvenile frat boys like they were 10 years back; it was embarrassing to watch then and it'd be doubly so now.
Fans are annoyed at this, sure, but it's not like it'll matter in the long run. Any damages WWE has suffered over this will eventually be forgotten about because people and life always move on to the next thing. Once the show is over, resentment will die down up until however long it is until the next Saudi Arabia show, if there's going to be others, and what sort of controversy is going on at the time beyond the usual like women's rights and the KSA history of human rights abuses. WWE will launch another marketing campaign painting them in the light of some progressive organization, critics will come out of the woodwork blasting them, lots of fans will just roll their eyes & bear it and this will be just another controversy in WWE's checkered past.
What I'm hoping for is for this year to be over with and hopefully WWE can get back on track in 2019. For much of this year, Raw has absolutely sucked. That's not to say that SmackDown has always shined like a diamond but it's often been a more entertaining and much easier show to sit through. Vince has overextended WWE a lot this year by spending more time on company PSAs and marketing campaigns to create an image that a lot of people have never bought into, trying to promote two or three different shows at once during a five or six week period, putting too much emphasis on one or two storylines while leaving everything else to feel like filler and too much focus on the wrong talent.