With Wrestlepalooza within the books, WWE has began to ramp up for Crown Jewel, which takes place in Perth, Australia this yr, moderately than the present’s conventional residence of Saudi Arabia. As was the case final yr, Crown Jewel can be anchored by matches between WWE’s prime males’s and ladies’s champions for the honorary Crown Jewel championship.
For the boys, which means a match between world heavyweight champion Seth Rollins and undisputed WWE champion Cody Rhodes. The ladies’s Crown Jewel championship match continues to be up within the air as ladies’s world champion Stephanie Vaquer waits to see who emerges as WWE ladies’s champion from an upcoming championship triple risk match on SmackDown.
John Cena may also be in motion for one of many ultimate matches of his profession when he takes on an previous rival in AJ Kinds.
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Let’s check out what we all know — and what we count on — from Crown Jewel, which takes place Oct. 11 from RAC Area in Perth, Australia.
2025 WWE Crown Jewel matches
Males’s Crown Jewel Championship — Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins: Rhodes and Rollins got here face-to-face shortly after Wrestlepalooza, figuring out the champion vs. champion match was kind of locked in. Rollins has questioned what Rhodes thinks of him and his “imaginative and prescient” for the way forward for wrestling, whereas Rhodes has questioned why Rollins wants the backup of “goons” if he is the perfect on the planet. These two have a reasonably prolonged historical past, relationship again to Rhodes being Rollins’ shock opponent at WrestleMania 38 in Rhodes’ return to WWE.
Ladies’s Crown Jewel Championship — Stephanie Vaquer vs. TBD: Vaquer received the ladies’s world championship at Wrestlepalooza and is now ready to see who will emerge from the Sept. 26 triple risk match between WWE ladies’s champion Tiffany Stratton, Jade Cargill and Nia Jax. Whoever wins the title will face Vaquer at Crown Jewel.
AJ Kinds vs. John Cena: Cena and Kinds had some implausible matches round 2017. These matches have been among the many better of Cena’s whole profession. That’s just about your entire storyline of why this match is going on, with no actual animosity or storyline past. In fact, perhaps Cena has to cope with a shock assault from somebody like Brock Lesnar as soon as once more as his ultimate days in WWE wind down.
2025 WWE Crown Jewel predictions
Asuka & Kairi Sane vs. Iyo Sky & Rhea Ripley: After weeks of teasing a break up, Asuka lastly turned on Sky after Sky protected Ripley following an Asuka mist assault. Sane has sided with Asuka as a result of Asuka is why Sane and Sky are in WWE to start with. A tag match looks like a straightforward sufficient subsequent step within the story and would fill time on the cardboard effectively.
United States Championship — Sami Zayn (c) vs. Solo Sikoa: Zayn’s points with Solo and the MFTs do not appear to have run their course. Add in that Sikoa has not obtained a championship rematch since dropping the belt to Zayn, and you’ve got the recipe for a straightforward high-stakes title match so as to add to the present.