With Wrestlepalooza within the books, WWE has began to ramp up for Crown Jewel, which takes place in Perth, Australia this 12 months, fairly than the present’s conventional house of Saudi Arabia. As was the case final 12 months, Crown Jewel will likely be anchored by matches between WWE’s prime males’s and girls’s champions for the honorary Crown Jewel championship. All of it goes down from the RAC Enviornment on Saturday night time in Perth.
For the boys, meaning a match between world heavyweight champion Seth Rollins and undisputed WWE champion Cody Rhodes. The ladies’s Crown Jewel championship match is now set as ladies’s world champion Stephanie Vaquer will tackle WWE ladies’s champion Tiffany Stratton.
As well as, John Cena returns for considered one of his closing appearances when he takes on AJ Types as the 2 revisit one of many promotion’s prime rivalries of the 2010s. Cena has been out of motion since Wrestlepalooza and solely has a handful of appearances booked by means of the top of the 12 months, when he’s anticipated to retire. Types, in the meantime, additionally lately mentioned he expects to retire by the top of 2026.
Plus, roman Reigns makes his return to a PPV card when he takes on Bronson Reed in n Australian Road Struggle. And Asuka and Kairi Sane are set to group up and face Iyo Sky and Rhea Ripley.
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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 Enviornment 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, understanding 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, courting again to Rhodes being Rollins’ shock opponent at WrestleMania 38 in Rhodes’ return to WWE.
Girls’s Crown Jewel Championship — Stephanie Vaquer vs. Tiffany Stratton: Vaquer received the ladies’s world championship at Wrestlepalooza in a terrific match with Iyo Sky for the vacant title. Now, she takes on Stratton as she has reigned as WWE ladies’s champion because the starting of the 12 months. She’s coming off a brutal triple risk match in opposition to Jade Cargill and Nia Jax on SmackDown on Sept. 26 that left Cargill badly lower. Vaquer and Stratton will now cross paths for the primary time of their careers.
AJ Types vs. John Cena: Cena and Types had some implausible matches round 2017. These matches had been among the many better of Cena’s total profession. That’s just about your entire storyline of why this match is going on, with no actual animosity or storyline past. In fact, possibly Cena has to cope with a shock assault from somebody like Brock Lesnar as soon as once more as his closing days in WWE wind down.
Roman Reigns vs. Bronson Reed (Australian Road Struggle): Reed and Reigns met at Conflict in Paris, with Reigns profitable earlier than Reed unleashed an onslaught after the match, taking Reigns out of motion. Reigns lately returned and Reed, with Paul Heyman by his facet, wished to run it again, although this time in a match sort that Reed “made well-known.” Reigns was comfortable to just accept and the rematch is on, and this time with no guidelines.
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 she claims Asuka is why Sane and Sky are in WWE. After Sane and Asuka provided Sky an opportunity to apologize and return to her “household,” Sky was the following to endure an Asuka mist assault. That was the final straw for Sky, who had struggled to interrupt away from Asuka, and the Crown Jewel tag match was official.