2024-11-02 WWE Crown Jewel - REVIEW

Commentary: Michael Cole & Corey Graves

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Venue: Mohammed Abdu Arena

Attendance: ?

Live TV Viewers: streamed online

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The Malapert Smark Podcast Review System:

🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]

🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]

👍👍 - Loved It! [+2]

👍 - Liked It [+1]

OrangeCassidy 1/2 👍- Kinda Liked It [+0.5]

👊 - Indifferent [0]

👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]

👎👎 - Hated It [-2]

🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]

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7 Angles

Totals for 2024's Crown Jewel:

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark 

👍 6.5

👎 1

👊 1

TOTAL SCORE: +5.5

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert 

👍 6

👎 0

👊 1

TOTAL SCORE: +6.0

Robert TheFrozenAsian 

👍 6

👎 0

👊 1

TOTAL SCORE: +6.0

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Angles:

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*1) The Bloodline Defeat Roman & the Usos in 6-Man Tag Action... Sami Zayn Gets Involved To Prevent Post Match Beating of Jey Uso, But Accidentally Kicks Roman Reigns In Fracas

ONE SEGMENT (36:24)

-Match: Solo, Jacob & Tama Tonga (w/Tonga Loa) (The Bloodline) vs Roman, Jey & Jimmy... enter Sami Zayn. Winners by pinfall: The Bloodline

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👍👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I was giddy seeing Sami re-enter this program on Monday. I’m all about the Afterbirth here. The match was solid. The right team won. But Sami coming in. The tease of joining the Bloodline. It all made sense. Helping Jey since they’ve maintained a friendship. And accidentally hitting Roman wasn’t even a big deal. Who cares? He don’t even like Roman anyway. So this is heading somewhere good.”

⭐️Vlad: “This was fantastic.”

⭐️Robert: ""

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2) Jade & Bianca Retain Women’s Tag Titles In 4-Way Tag Match

ONE SEGMENT (19:55)

-Jade & Bianca def. Chelsea & Piper, Lash & Jakara, Io & Kairi (4-Way Tag)

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👊

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👊

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Maybe the only skippable match on this card. This Jade and Bianca thing hasn’t really worked out in my view. It’s not interesting to a wrestling fan. But if they’re goal was to slip Jade in there and not have her shortcomings be so apparent, then at least they accomplished that.”

⭐️Vlad: "I basically skipped this.”

⭐️Robert: ""

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*3) Bronson Reed Takes Insane Amount of Damage Before Finally Getting Pinned By Seth Rollins… Post Match, A Beaten Reed Was Not Down and Out, Getting Up and Challenging Rollins to Continue Fighting

THREE SEGMENTS (24:08)

-Video Package: Summary of Reed/Rollins feud

-Match: Rollins def. Reed

-Post Match: Reed got up and challenged Rollins to continue fighting

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “At first I was kind of upset at the booking but upon further reflection, this was the best possible scenario. Also I don’t love Seth, WWE don’t want him to lose a match clean. But Reed still looked strong as hell. I suspect they’re building Reed up to be a Last Man Standing specialist. Which is honestly kinda cool because those matches always stink. So as long as Reed gets a win against Seth somewhere down the line, I’m fine with this. But I woulda liked this more if Reed won.😄”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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*4) Tiffany Stratton Almost Cashes In On Nia, But Is Thwarted By Judgement Day… Distractions Help Liv Get the Win and Become First Women’s Crown Jewel Champion

FOUR SEGMENTS (22:06)

-Video Package: Summary of Liv/Nia feud

-Match: Liv v Nia... enter Tiffany... enter Raquel, Dom. Winner: Liv by pinfall

-Post Match: Triple H presents Liv w/ Women's Crown Jewel Championship Title Belt

-In-Ring Segment: Men's & Women's Crown Jewel Champions Posed To Close the Show

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 1/2 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “This was a very interesting heel vs heel matchup. But with Rhea out of the way, it made sense that Liv would have more firepower backing her up. I like that they didn’t weaken Nia having her lose clean. It was interesting and exciting to me. And the right person won. If the crown jewel title is supposed to portray who the best wrestler is, I think Liv is the right choice. Despite her size, I love how she works. Rhea would have been the real choice, but since she’s not around, Liv is good.”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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*5) Match Between Kevin Owens & Randy Orton Never Comes Off As Orton & KO Fight Through Managements' Attempts To Control Them… KO Elbow Drops Orton From Top of Guard Railing To End Violent Segment. 

TWO SEGMENTS (18:28)

-Video Package: Summary of KO/Orton feud

-In-Arena Segment: Orton & KO brawled.. enter Diavari, enter Pierce, Aldis

-Replay: Events that just occurred

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👍👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “I loved this. Who the heck wants to see these two have a regular match? The chaos made sense considering KO is unhinged right now. And the spot to end the segment looked great. Straight outta KO’s indy playbook.”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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6) LA Knight Retains US Title In 3-Way Against Andrade & Carmelo Hayes

TWO SEGMENTS (16:35)

-Replay: Two Weeks Ago on Smackdown when Special Referee LA Knight ruined Game 7 b/w Andrade & Carmelo

-Match: LA Knight def. Carmelo Hayes, Andrade (3-Way)

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 1/2 👍

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 1/2 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 1/2 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Had a couple nice high spots and the finish looked great.”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""

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*7) Cody Rhodes Get Clean Win Over Gunther In Champion vs Champions Showdown, Becomes First Men’s Crown Jewel Champion

FIVE SEGMENTS (45:31)

-Video Package: Joe Tessatore interviews Gunther, Cathy Kelley interviews Cody

-Video Package: Legacies of World Heavyweight & WWE Titles

-Match: Cody def. Gunther

-Post Match: Triple H Presents Cody w/ Men's Crown Jewel Championship

-In-Ring Segment: Men's & Women's Crown Jewel Champions Posed To Close the Show

🌍SUMMARY🌏

🌪️ REVIEWS 🌪️

Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👎

Vlad TheWrestlingExpert - 👍

Robert TheFrozenAsian - 👍

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Im not gonna let the fact that they put Cody and Gunther together take away from my disdain for this match. It was so long! The good work was overshadowed by two things. One, the fact that Cody won clean. If you’re gonna make these two have a match and have someone go over clean to show the people who WWE really thinks is the best wrestler, then do it in the natural course of the show. I don’t need you to waste my time having a whole separate show just to show who’s the man. Secondly, there shouldn’t even be two titles so Fuck this. This coulda been the main event of Wrestlemania for the WWE title and then let us have a winner. Crown Jewel Champion, my ass! And those rich losers in the ring with the wrestlers have no business being in a WWE ring other than the fact that they have a ton of money. They’re worthless. F these Saudi shows. This show was overall a waste of time.”

⭐️Vlad: "Great match but I don't think I would have had a clean finish here.”

⭐️Robert: ""

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Other: 

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A) Match Announced for Monday Night's Raw (11/4) - World Heavyweight Title #1 Contender's Match: Seth v Damian v Dom v Sheamus

➡️COMMENTS⬅️

⭐️Kayhan: “Dom’s gonna win.😄”

⭐️Vlad: ""

⭐️Robert: ""