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WWE CROWN JEWEL
NOVEMBER 7, 2026
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
STREAMED LIVE ON ESPN UNLIMITED (US) & NETFLIX (NON-US)
Commentators: Michael Cole, Corey Graves (off-site)
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-They showed Cody Rhodes, Liv Morgan, Sami Zayn, and Roman Reigns arrival clips. Roman was getting out of a private jet. Sami was walking through a hotel lobby. Cody was shown getting out of his bus, so he drove there the “long way” over the (not-yet-melted) icecaps. (Just kidding.)
(1) CODY RHODES vs. RANDY ORTON – Last Man Standing
Cody entered first. Then Orton. Fans sang Orton’s theme with gusto. Orton stood at ringside as a gathering of kids against the railing reached out to touch him or hug him. He stood just out of reach and then gave them a strange look before walking away. Cole said Cody temporarily lost his job in 2014 because he lost a one-on-one match to Orton and he said tonight Orton wants to get rid of Cody forever. Cole said “the last time Cody Rhodes was here, he lost the championship in a Triple Threat match and has not been able to get the title back.”
The bell rang 11 minutes into the hour. Orton took control at ringside. He took the lid off the announce desk and leaned it on the ground, then dropped Cody on it. (Those lids are so flimsy, it’s never seemed like there’s anything threatening about them. They look like they’re made of foam or particle board. Also of note, that was the announce table for the Saudi Arabia team, as Cole and Graves are not on-site for the call but are back in the United States.) They brawled into the crowd as fans roared with each punch and uppercut. Orton hit Cody with a metal trash can and then the lid.
They fought up the aisle where Cody took over. There were various instances of the ref counting toward ten, including here where the ref (Charles Robinson) reached the count of five on Orton before he standing up. On the entrance stage, Orton took seven seconds to stand, but then collapsed again. Cody brought a table onto the stage and set it up. Orton made a comeback and powerbombed Cody through the table. Cody stood at the count of nine.
Orton dragged Cody back to the ring. Cody kicked Orton as he was reentering the ring. He delivered a draping DDT to Orton. Graves called on Cole to say, “Vintage Cody Rhodes!” Orton came back and landed his signature snap powerslam. Fans chanted “RKO!” Orton then landed his draping DDT. “Vintage Orton!” said Cole. ‘
Cody powerslammed Orton and then hit a Cody Cutter. The ref counted to six before Orton stood. Orton and Cody exchanged jabs. Orton surprised Cody with an RKO Out of Nowhere at 15:00. The ref reached a count of nine. Cody rolled to the floor when Orton reached for him. Orton removed the top of the ringside steps. He threw the steps at Orton, but Cody ducked. Cody then hit Orton with the steps. Cody cleared the announce desk and put Orton on it. Then he pulled a ladder out from under the ring and climbed it, then leaped at Orton. Orton moved and Cody landed with a thud on the table, which collapsed. The ref counted both Orton and Cody down. Orton stood at eight and Cody stood at nine. Fans booed. Graves called it “pure muscle memory from Cody Rhodes.”
Fans chanted “This is awesome!” at 2x speed as they crawled back into the ring at 21:00. Cody gave Orton a “Super Cody Cutter.” (It looked awful as Orton took the bump awkwardly. Graves pointed out “Cody didn’t get all of it.”) When Orton pulled himself to his feet, Cody gave him a CrossRhodes. Fans chanted, “You suck! You suck!” at Cody. Orton stood at nine. Cody brought the stairs into the ring and put Orton on it. He stood over him with a chair in hand. When he wound up, Orton gave him a low blow. Cole said that’s the same move that ended Cody at Sunday Night’s Main Event.
Cody countered an RKO with three CrossRhodes. Cody told the ref to stop counting. He then punt kicked Orton. Cole said, “Cody Rhodes finally pulled the trigger!” There was little crowd response, just scattered boos. (For the culmination of that story, this was flat. It was a bad story, is why.) The ref reached a count of ten. They showed a close-up of Orton’s face that was bleeding. Graves said the look on Cody’s face indicates this experience “was anything but cathartic.” Cole said Cody seems almost disappointed in himself that he stooped to the level of Orton.
WINNER: Cody in 17:00.
(Keller’s Analysis: The match was quite precisely what you’d expect from this format and these two wrestlers. It was a solid version of this match, pretty paint-by-numbers. The crowd being against Cody is an indictment of Orton hedging on going heel in this feud against Cody, who fans are always on the brink of booing anyway. Add to it overshooting on the how “ominous” the punt kick is seen by fans and building an entire storyline around the idea that Cody doing a punt kick is somehow a crazy line for him to cross doomed this storyline.)
-A video package aired on The 946-Bloodline feud for some reason.
(2) BRON BREAKKER & AUSTIN THEORY (w/Maxxine Dupri) vs. JE’VON EVANS & PENTA – World Tag Team Title match
As Penta made his entrance, Cole noted that he had the Money in the Bank briefcase and later Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns were present, so there could be a cash-in. The bell rang 57 minutes into the hour. Theory started against Evans. Penta blind tagged in and superkicked Theory after Evans leapfrogged him. They stereo superkicked Breakker to the floor. They both did a running dive to ringside onto Breakker and Theory. Penta reached at his lower back afterward, which Cole pointed out quickly, so that could be a focus of the match.
Penta gave Theory a backstabber and tagged Evans in. Evans landed a top rope high frog splash for a two count. Sure enough, they settled into a stretch where Breakker was focusiing on Penta’s back. Penta knocked Breakker down and hit a flying crossbody for a quick two count. Breakker took over afterward with a right hand and scored a quick two count.
Breakker suplexed Penta, then tagged in Theory who continued the beatdown. Breakker went for a spear, but Penta met him with a kick. He then hot-tagged Evans to a pop from the crowd. Evans took out both Breakker and Theory in a flurry of offense. “The energy just picked up,” said Cole. Theory caught Evans mid-air and slammed him with a Death Valley Driver for a two count at 8:00.
Breakker tagged in and back suplexed Evans as Theory threw a clothesline for a two count. Penta tagged in and went on a flurry of offense against both Breakker and Theory. Fans were into Penta and Evans. Theory broke up a cover. Fans taunted Theory, and he yelled back at them. Cole said he needed to get the fans out of his head.
Penta gave Theory a springboard tornado DDT and made the cover. Dupri put Theory’s leg on the bottom rope. Fans chanted, “You suck!” Bronson Reed interfered, yanking Penta out of the ring and giving him a Jagged Edge on the floor. He clotheslined Evans over the barricade. Breakker gave Penta a leaping bulldog off the top rope off of Breakker’s shoulders. Oba Femi’s music played and the lights went dark mid-match for his full entrance. (That’s silly that WWE production would cooperate with turning lights out mid-match just to serve a wrestler’s entrance if the match was supposed to be perceived as a high-stakes actual competition.) Reed charged up the ramp at Oba, but Oba checked him and then tossed hiomn off the stage through a table below. Graves pointed out there was a tag team title match still going.
Penta leaped off the top rope and landed on Breakker as he was fighting Evans. Penta then gave Theory a Mexican Destroyer. Ebvans gave Theory an OG Cutter right afterward for a three count.
As Oba celebrated with Evans and Penta, Cole said that was the future of WWE.
WINNERS: Evans & Theory in 15:00.
(Keller’s Analysis: What a refreshing match compared to the opener in the sense that the heels act like heels and thus got booed, and the babyfaces brought energy and athleticism that the crowd popped for. The Oba-Reed interlude popped the crowd, but could have just as easily been done after the match rather than interrupting it. I like Evans & Penta as champs. It in theory delays the MITB cash-in being a focus for Penta and lets The Vision recalibrate with a move back to singles feuds.)
(3) CHELSEA GREEN vs. LIV MORGAN – Champion vs. Champion for Crown Jewel bedazzled trinket
The bell rang 30 minutes into the second hour. (Yes, two matches in 90 minutes so far, 32 minutes of action, 58 minutes of disrespecting your time to pay for another executive yacht and private jet.) Cole and Graves talked about Chelsea’s continued self-doubt about whether she belongs in the top tier. Chelsea made a comeback after Liv gloated over her. Liv rolled to ringside. Chelsea knocked her off the ring apron.
Green rammed Liv’s face into the top turnbuckle. Liv caught Green with a quick powerbomb for a near fall as a counter to a Rough Ryder. Cole and Graves agreed the match was going on longer than Liv expected. Green hit a Rough Ryder for a two count at 9:00. Graves said Green is going from insecure to confident back and forth over and over. “It’s an emotional roller coaster,” he said.
Liv stood and fired back with a series of strikes. Green slapped and punched back. Liv caught Green with a Code Breaker for a two count. She shifted into a half crab mid-ring. Green reached the bottom rope. Liv stomped away at her body on the mat. Liv leaped off the second rope at Green. Green kicked her out of mid-air. Liv rolled too ringside. Green leaped onto her. Back in the ring, she climbed to the top rope and hit Liv with a missile dropkick. Liv avoided an Unpretty Her. Green avoided an Oblivion. Green then hit Unpretty Her, but Liv draped her boot on the bottom rope.
Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez walked to ringside, distracting Green. Liv shoved Green off the top rope. Liv told her cohort “I’ve got it.” Cole said Liv had said she wanted to win on her own. Liv went on the attack at ringside. Back in the ring, Liv landed a leaping Cody Breaker off the second rope. Green blocked an Oblivion and then stack covered Liv for a sudden leverage three count.
WINNER: Green in 16:00 to win the Crown Jewel bedazzled trinket belt.
(Keller’s Analysis: The Crown Jewel belt looks like an updated Mid-South North American Title belt from the mid-1980s.)
-Green got wide-eyed with pride and celebrated with kids in the front row and then hugged Mike Rome and high-fived the Saudi commentators. She entered the ring and hugged Paul Levesque who presented her with the belt and the ring. Green gave an acceptance speech as fans chanted, “You deserve it!” Liv jumped Green from behind. Tiffany Stratton hit Liv from behind with the briefcase and then talked to the ref about cashing in. Perez and Raquel ran out. Green knocked them off the ring apron. Tiffany then clocked Green with the briefcase. Fans booed as Tiffany cashed it in. Tiffany then hit the Prettiest Moonsault Ever to win. Graves said the briefcase was a dagger and she just betrayed Green. Cole asked why she did that. Tiffany stole Green’s Crown Jewel ring and belts left with them.
(Keller’s Analysis: It’s good to have Tiffany positioned as a heel again. I talked about this scenario on yesterday’s Wade Keller News Hotline, a VIP-exclusive podcast. I thought that Perez and Rodriguez would attack Green, giving Liv time to recover and scurry out of the ring, leaving a battered Green prone to an easy pin. If they did that, Tiffany could have claimed since she cashed in the briefcase, she had to go for a pin on the last remaining champion in the ring and feign innocence for a while. This scenario is fine, too, with Tiffany establishing she had heel intensions as she ran to the ring. I’m curious if being turned on sparks Green to leave her confidence issues behind and now be driven by revenge. Losing like this shouldn’t make her “less confident,” but rather motivated.)
[NOTE: The news breaking of Trump offering TKO’s Dana White the press secretary job during Crown Jewel is the chef’s kiss.]
(4) ROMAN REIGNS vs. SAMI ZAYN – Champion vs. Champion for Crown Jewel bedazzled trinket
As Sami came out, Graves said this is as much of a home field advantage as he could have. Reigns made his long entrance. When Sami and Roman faced off before ring introductions, Graves said the look in their eyes indicates this is going to be memorable. The bell rang 15 minutes into the third hour. Graves said Sami has a gameplan and nothing he does is done by mistake.
Sami and Roman locked up. Sami shoved Roman into the corner. Roman smirked. Sami shoved him. Roman glared at Sami, then got an intense look. (Wow, we got three of Roman’s four facial expressions in the opening minute. Dismissive smugness is the last box to check.) Roman ran the ropes, but Sami side-stepped him and threw him over the top rope to ringside. When Roman returned to the ring, Sami knocked him right back over the top rope. Sami went after Roman at ringside.
Roman made a comeback. He scored a two count after a suplex at 9:00. Reigns dropped to ringside and hit Sami with his Drive-By and scored a two count. Roman said he was going to “superplex his bitch ass.” He then went for it, but Sami blocked it. Sami turned it into a powerbomb for a two count.
Sami went for a Blue Thunder Bomb, but Roman avoided it and slammed Sami with a uranage. Fans booed. Reigns signaled for a Superman Punch. Sami recovered and landed a Blue Thunder Bomb for a near fall at 14:00. Roman rolled out of the ring to avoid a Helluva Kick. Roman rolled to the floor. Sami quickly dove onto him at ringside. Back in the ring, Roman landed a Superman Punch for a two count.
Roman avoided a Helluva Kick. Cole said Sami could be hurt. Roman hit a Superman Punch. He let out a roar and the crowd roared with him. Sami hit Roman with a Helluva Kick (outta nowhere!) for a near fall. Sami set up a Superman Punch, but Roma ducked. Reigns then went for one, but Sami ducked and the punch landed on the ref. Sami then gave Roman an Exploder Suplex. He followed with a Helluva Kick. The ref was down. A second ref (Charles Robinson) ran out. The ref counted to two before Roman kicked out.
A frustrated Sami gave Robinson a Helluva Kick. Sami sung the title belt at Roman. Roman ducked and speared Sami. Sami kicked out after a groggy two count by the original ref. Roman told Sami it’ll take more to beat him, but indicated he respected his effort and it’s what he wanted to see from him. He said this is the main event. Sami sat up and slapped Sami. Sami slapped Roman back. They stood and Roman dropped Sami. Cole said, “Roman might’ve ended the dream of Sami Zayn.” Sami stood, but Roman slapped him down. Sami called for Roman to hit him with a Superman Punch. “Bring everything you’ve got!” he said. Roman hit him. He went for another, but Sami countered with an exploder suplex into the corner. Roman came back with a Superman Punch and then let out a roar. Sami countered with a Superman Punch of his own. “This is unbelievable!” said Graves. Sami charged for a spear, but Roman intercepted him with his spear. Graves said Sami’s bravado got the best of him. “This is awesome!” chanted fans.
Sami and Roman sat up next to each, both sweating and exhausted. Roman had some words for Sami, then speared him for a three count. “What a fight,” said Cole. Graves said, “A true main event an night of the year.” Cole said Sami doesn’t always get what he wants, but he always gets what he needs, which is the respect of Roman Reigns.
WINNER: Reigns in 25:00 to win the Crown Jewel bedazzled trinket belt.
-As Levesque was about to hand the Crown Jewel belt to Roman, Sami stopped him and said he had something to do first. He offered a handshake to Roman. Roman thought about it. “What the hell is there to think about?” he said. “It took everything you had… I deserve respect. You won’t acknowledge me, but you should acknowledge that. Now shake my hand!” Roman glared at him, then slapped his hand and instead moved in and hugged him. Sami cried and said, “Thank you.” Roman raised Sami’s arm and pointed at him. Levesque handed Sami his belt, then turned and handed Roman the Crown Jewel belt. Roman looked at it and smiled, then shook Levesque’s hand.
Levesque put Roman’s World Heavyweight Title belt around his waist. Roman said there is only one thing left to do. He asked Saudi Arabia to “acknowledge me.” He got a small response, but fans raised their arms. He threw the mic down and pyro blasted.
(Keller’s Analysis: A good version of a Roman Reigns main event style match. The story of Sami earning Roman’s respect as the match progressed was an interesting choice. It fits the story for sure, but it also seems to push Sami toward a babyface role and ignores what should be an overriding issue for Roman, which is Sami didn’t help Jimmy “last night” on Smackdown when The 946 attacked him. Roman is all over the place as a character in his actions and also in terms of how he reacts to crowds, which either cheer or boo him depending on his opponent lately.)
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