With Wrestlepalooza within the books, WWE has began to ramp up for Crown Jewel, which takes place in Perth, Australia this yr, fairly than the present’s conventional dwelling of Saudi Arabia. As was the case final yr, Crown Jewel will probably be anchored by matches between WWE’s high males’s and girls’s champions for the honorary Crown Jewel championship. All of it goes down from the RAC Area on Saturday night time in Perth.

For the lads, which means 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 girls’s world champion Stephanie Vaquer will tackle WWE girls’s champion Tiffany Stratton.

As well as, John Cena returns for one in all his remaining appearances when he takes on AJ Kinds as the 2 revisit one of many promotion’s high rivalries of the 2010s. Cena has been out of motion since Wrestlepalooza and solely has a handful of appearances booked by the tip of the yr, when he’s anticipated to retire. Kinds, in the meantime, additionally not too long ago stated he expects to retire by the tip of 2026.

Plus, roman Reigns makes his return to a PPV card when he takes on Bronson Reed in n Australian Avenue Struggle. And Asuka and Kairi Sane are set to group up and face Iyo Sky and Rhea Ripley.

Let’s check out what we all know — and what we anticipate — 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, realizing 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 most effective 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. 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 girls’s champion because the starting of the yr. She’s coming off a brutal triple risk match towards 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 Kinds vs. John Cena: Cena and Kinds had some implausible matches round 2017. These matches have been among the many better of Cena’s complete profession. That’s just about your complete storyline of why this match is occurring, with no actual animosity or storyline past. After all, possibly Cena has to cope with a shock assault from somebody like Brock Lesnar as soon as once more as his remaining days in WWE wind down.

Roman Reigns vs. Bronson Reed (Australian Avenue 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 not too long ago returned and Reed, with Paul Heyman by his aspect, wished to run it again, although this time in a match sort that Reed “made well-known.” Reigns was pleased 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 supplied 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.