With Wrestlepalooza within the books, WWE has began to ramp up for Crown Jewel, which takes place in Perth, Australia this 12 months, quite than the present’s conventional residence of Saudi Arabia. As was the case final 12 months, 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 lads, meaning a match between world heavyweight champion Seth Rollins and undisputed WWE champion Cody Rhodes. The ladies’s Crown Jewel championship match remains to be up within the air as girls’s world champion Stephanie Vaquer waits to see who emerges as WWE girls’s champion from an upcoming championship triple menace match on SmackDown.
John Cena will even be in motion for one of many closing matches of his profession when he takes on an outdated rival in AJ Types.
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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, understanding the champion vs. champion match was roughly 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 very best 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 gained the ladies’s world championship at Wrestlepalooza and is now ready to see who will emerge from the Sept. 26 triple menace match between WWE girls’s champion Tiffany Stratton, Jade Cargill and Nia Jax. Whoever wins the title will face Vaquer at Crown Jewel.
AJ Types vs. John Cena: Cena and Types had some incredible 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, perhaps Cena has to take care of a shock assault from somebody like Brock Lesnar as soon as once more as his closing days in WWE wind down.
2025 WWE Crown Jewel predictions
Asuka & Kairi Sane vs. Iyo Sky & Rhea Ripley: After weeks of teasing a cut 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 as if a simple sufficient subsequent step within the story and would fill time on the cardboard nicely.
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 acquired a championship rematch since dropping the belt to Zayn, and you’ve got the recipe for a simple high-stakes title match so as to add to the present.
