Crown Jewel (2025)

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Crown Jewel
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Promotional poster featuring various WWE wrestlers
Promotion WWE
Brand(s) Raw
SmackDown
DateOctober 11, 2025
City Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Venue RAC Arena
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The 2025 Crown Jewel, also promoted as Crown Jewel: Perth, is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American company WWE. It will be the seventh Crown Jewel, taking place on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia, Australia and feature wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event will be highlighted by the men's and women's Crown Jewel Championship matches, which pit the men's and women's world champions of Raw and SmackDown against each other to determine who is the better champion.

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This will be the first Crown Jewel held outside of Saudi Arabia, as all previous Crown Jewel events were held in the country's capital of Riyadh. The event will be John Cena's last pay-per-view and livestreaming event appearance in Australia as an in-ring performer due to his retirement from professional wrestling at the end of 2025.

Production

Background

The event will be held at RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. RAC Arena, October 2018.jpg
The event will be held at RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Crown Jewel is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American promotion WWE since 2018, typically held in late October–early November. From its inception until 2024, it was the main recurring event that took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as part of a 10-year partnership with the country in support of Saudi Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia's social and economic reform program, and it was held as part of the annual Riyadh Season festivities. [1] Beginning with the 2024 event, Crown Jewel became centered around the men's and women's Crown Jewel Championship matches, held between the respective men's and women's world champions of WWE's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions to determine the "best of the best". [2]

In February 2025, following the success of the 2024 Elimination Chamber, which was held in Perth, Western Australia, WWE announced that they would be returning to Australia sometime in 2025 for a takeover weekend that would include a PPV and livestreaming event and tapings of Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown . [3] As a result of the Royal Rumble in January 2026 being held as part of Saudi Arabia's 2025–2026 Riyadh Season, [4] on May 2, 2025, the Australian PPV and livestreaming event was announced as the seventh Crown Jewel, also promoted as Crown Jewel: Perth, scheduled for the RAC Arena on Saturday, October 11, 2025, marking the first Crown Jewel to not be held in Saudi Arabia. SmackDown was also confirmed for October 10 and Raw on October 13 at the same venue. [5] [6] [7]

In addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide and via livestreaming on ESPN's direct-to-consumer streaming service in the United States, the event will also be available to livestream on Netflix in most international markets and the WWE Network in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Crown Jewel to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas, [8] and to livestream on ESPN in the United States, as their contract with Peacock to air main roster PPV and livestreaming events expired at the conclusion of Clash in Paris in August. [9] [10]

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, [11] [12] while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown. [13]

At Wrestlepalooza, Cody Rhodes retained SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Championship. [14] During the post-event show, he was confronted by Raw's World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins. With neither having a scheduled title defense before Crown Jewel, this set up the men's Crown Jewel Championship match, which WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque subsequently confirmed. [15] Also at Wrestlepalooza, Stephanie Vaquer won Raw's Women's World Championship. [14] SmackDown's WWE Women's Championship is held by Tiffany Stratton, but she is scheduled to defend the title in a triple threat match against Nia Jax and Jade Cargill on the September 26 episode of SmackDown; the winner of that match will face Vaquer for the Women's Crown Jewel Championship at Crown Jewel. [16]

In a promo prior to his match at Clash in Paris, John Cena listed wrestlers he wanted to face before his retirement from in-ring competition at the end of 2025, which included former rival AJ Styles. [17] Following his loss at Wrestlepalooza, Cena posted on X about having a match against Styles, which Styles responded, saying he wanted the match as well. [18] Triple H subsequently confirmed a match between them at Crown Jewel. [19]

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1 Seth Rollins (Raw's World Heavyweight Champion) vs. Cody Rhodes (SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Champion) Singles match for the WWE Crown Jewel Championship [20]
2 Stephanie Vaquer (Raw's Women's World Champion) vs. TBD (SmackDown's WWE Women's Champion) [a] Singles match for the WWE Women's Crown Jewel Championship [5]
3 John Cena vs. AJ Styles Singles match [21]
*Card subject to change

Notes

  1. ↑ The reigning WWE Women's Champion is Tiffany Stratton, however, she will defend her championship on the September 26 episode of SmackDown against Jade Cargill and Nia Jax in a triple threat match.

References

  1. ↑ Lambert, Jeremy (May 25, 2024). "WWE Crown Jewel Announced For November 2 In Saudi Arabia". Fightful. Archived from the original on May 25, 2024. Retrieved May 25, 2024.
  2. ↑ Lee, Joseph (October 5, 2024). "Triple H Announces Attendance for WWE Bad Blood, New Title for Crown Jewel". 411Mania. Archived from the original on October 6, 2024. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  3. ↑ Lambert, Jeremy (February 28, 2025). "TKO Officially Announces WWE And UFC Returning To Perth". Fightful. Archived from the original on March 1, 2025. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
  4. ↑ Lambert, Jeremy (January 6, 2025). "WWE Royal Rumble 2026 To Take Place In Saudi Arabia". Fightful. Archived from the original on January 6, 2025. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Perth to host 'Crown Jewel' of global WWE event". Western Australian Government . May 2, 2025. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  6. ↑ Lambert, Jeremy (May 2, 2025). "WWE Crown Jewel Perth Set To Take Place On October 11". Fightful. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  7. ↑ WWE.com Staff (May 2, 2025). "WWE returns to Australia this October with Crown Jewel: Perth". WWE . "As previously announced at WrestleMania 41, Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena will travel to Perth in October to make his final WWE appearance in Australia as part of his 2025 Farewell Tour."
  8. ↑ Gibbons, Aidan (January 25, 2024). "WWE Network to be shut down by the end of 2024". Cultaholic. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
  9. ↑ Lambert, Jeremy (August 20, 2025). "WWE Wrestlepalooza Announced For September 20, Will Air On ESPN As WWE-ESPN Partnership Begins". Fightful. Retrieved August 20, 2025.
  10. ↑ Rumsey, Connel (August 20, 2025). "WWE Clash In Paris To Be Final PLE Airing On Peacock". WrestleTalk. Retrieved August 20, 2025.
  11. ↑ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE . Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  13. ↑ Steinberg, Brian (May 25, 2016). "WWE's 'Smackdown' Will Move To Live Broadcast On USA (Exclusive)". Variety . Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
  14. 1 2 Barnett, Jake (September 20, 2025). "WWE Wrestlepalooza results: Barnett's review of AJ Lee and CM Punk vs. Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins, John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar, Iyo Sky vs. Stephanie Vaquer for the Women's World Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net . Retrieved September 20, 2025.
  15. ↑ Thompson, Andrew (September 20, 2025). "Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins For Men's Crown Jewel Championship Set For WWE Crown Jewel: Perth". Fightful. Retrieved September 21, 2025.
  16. ↑ Powell, Jason (September 19, 2025). "WWE Smackdown results (9/19): Powell's live review of Cody Rhodes' appearance, a Brock Lesnar interview, two title matches, final hype for Wrestlepalooza". Pro Wrestling Dot Net . Retrieved September 21, 2025.
  17. ↑ Thomas, Jeremy (August 22, 2025). "John Cena & Logan Paul Trade Words On WWE Smackdown, Cena Calls Paul a 'Parasite'". 411Mania. Retrieved September 23, 2025.
  18. ↑ Harris, Jeffrey (September 23, 2025). "UPDATED: John Cena Campaigns for Match Against AJ Styles, Styles Says He's 'Ready'". 411Mania. Retrieved September 23, 2025.
  19. ↑ Ucchino, Rick (September 23, 2025). "Triple H Announces John Cena's Opponent For WWE Crown Jewel". Sports Illustrated . Retrieved September 23, 2025.
  20. ↑ WWE.com Staff (September 22, 2025). "Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins (WWE Crown Jewel Championship Match)". WWE . Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  21. ↑ WWE.com Staff (September 23, 2025). "John Cena vs. AJ Styles". WWE . Retrieved September 23, 2025.
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