Crown Jewel (2024)

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Crown Jewel
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Promotional poster featuring Cody Rhodes, Gunther, Nia Jax, and Liv Morgan
Promotion WWE
Brand(s) Raw
SmackDown
DateNovember 2, 2024
City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Venue Mohammed Abdo Arena
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The 2024 Crown Jewel is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by the American company WWE. It will be the sixth Crown Jewel and will take place on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at the Mohammed Abdo Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will be the 12th event that WWE will hold in Saudi Arabia under a 10-year partnership in support of Saudi Vision 2030.

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Production

Background

In early 2018, the American professional wrestling promotion WWE began a 10-year strategic multiplatform partnership with the Ministry of Sport (formerly General Sports Authority) in support of Saudi Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia's social and economic reform program. [1] [2] Crown Jewel was then established later that same year, subsequently becoming the main recurring event in this partnership, held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, in late October–early November. The sixth Crown Jewel, and 12th overall event in the Saudi Arabian partnership, was announced on May 25, 2024, during King and Queen of the Ring and was scheduled to be held on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at the Mohammed Abdo Arena. [3] The event will air on pay-per-view worldwide and will be available to livestream on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in most international markets, and it will feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. [4] This will be the final Crown Jewel to air live on the standalone WWE Network, as it will cease operations in its available markets when Netflix gains the rights in January 2025. [5]

Storylines

The event will include matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, [6] [7] while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown . [8]

At Bad Blood, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque announced that at Crown Jewel, the reigning men's and women's world champions of Raw and SmackDown would face each other; however, their respective titles would not be on the line and instead, the respective winners would be crowned the Crown Jewel Champion and Women's Crown Jewel Champion. He also announced that this would be an annual match for Crown Jewel. [9] During Bad Blood itself, Liv Morgan and Nia Jax retained their respective titles—Raw's Women's World Championship and SmackDown's WWE Women's Championship—thus setting up the Women's Crown Jewel Championship match. [10] As SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes did not have a title defense at Bad Blood, he was automatically entered into the men's match at Crown Jewel. His opponent was determined by Raw's World Heavyweight Championship match on the October 7 episode of Raw where Gunther retained, thus setting up the men's Crown Jewel Championship match. [11]

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1 Cody Rhodes (SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Champion) vs. Gunther (Raw's World Heavyweight Champion) Singles match for the inaugural WWE Crown Jewel Championship [12]
2 Nia Jax (SmackDown's WWE Women's Champion) vs. Liv Morgan (Raw's Women's World Champion) Singles match for the inaugural WWE Women's Crown Jewel Championship [13]
*Card subject to change

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