WWE Crown Jewel, Sunday 5th November 2023, 3am AEDT

[Cleavy]

Crown Jewel card

• Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns defends against LA Knight
• World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins defends against Drew McIntyre
• Women's World Champion Rhea Ripley defends against Nia Jax, Raquel Rodriguez, Shayna Baszler, and Zoey Stark in a fatal five-way match
• Women's Champion IYO SKY defends against Bianca Belair
• United States Champion Rey Mysterio defends against Logan Paul
• Cody Rhodes vs. Damian Priest
• John Cena vs. Solo Sikoa
• Kickoff: Sami Zayn vs. JD McDonagh

 

[RossFC]

Would welcome an LA Knight or Drew McIntyre win but apart from that it just looks like a filler show.

 

[Cleavy]

so expecting US Title to change hands and that's it?

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

What i love to see.

- Priest to cash in on Rollins and win the title.

- Bazler wins the title from Ripley.

- Priest on Raw declares that he's now the leader of Judgement Day

- Ripley ends up leaving JD to go after Bazler and in the process dumps Dirty Dom with a Riptide (crowd will go absolute bonkers if it happens haha)

Let the Bazler/Ripley feud resume with Ripley becoming a baby face champ

 

[Ry009]

Just got up for the end of Logan/Rey match, anyone get up for the start?

Also Kairi Sane back!

 

[Cleavy]

sucked in, LA Knight fans!

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Logan Paul with some pro moves. Rey massively undershot that springboard and was very lucky

 

[Southerntakeover]

This show stunk. The product is really cold right now, things aren't working.

 

[Southerntakeover]

sucked in, LA Knight fans!

Absolutely no one thought he was a chance to win?

The real problem is now he'll go to the 'we have nothing for you' list reserved for people who the WWE has no interest in booking when they're not in the Roman story.

Sami and Jey both went from the hottest things in the industry to not even on the PLEs in alarming time.

 

[Southerntakeover]

Crowd shitting on Rollins was kind of fun though. He's had the title for like a quarter of the time, and somehow is still more stale than Roman.

 

[Ry009]

This show stunk. The product is really cold right now, things aren't working.

This was a glorified house show - not sure what you were expecting. It's a long long way from being great but despite Vince coming back has had an upward trend the last few months.

 

[Southerntakeover]

This was a glorified house show - not sure what you were expecting. It's a long long way from being great but despite Vince coming back has had an upward trend the last few months.

How's it on an upward trend? It was hot until about Summerslam. The last show over there was good. This stunk.

Is it even possible to have anything other than a glorified house show until Mania, given the Bloodline story has no where to go until then? And it's still half a year away.

 

[Ry009]

How's it on an upward trend? It was hot until about Summerslam. The last show over there was good. This stunk.

Is it even possible to have anything other than a glorified house show until Mania, given the Bloodline story has no where to go until then? And it's still half a year away.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still fully on board the "Cody or Sami should have won by now" train. I don't disagree that it's caused a log jam with a lot of main event level talent with the Bloodline and was cooked a few weeks after Mania.

100% think Drew should have gone over Rollins. Like to think a returning Orton or Punk will cost him at Survivor Series maybe? Agree that Rollins is stale as well now.

Guess my point is the low to mid card stuff is far better than it used to be, and week to week stuff is slowly getting better.

 

[WA ROO]

This show stunk. The product is really cold right now, things aren't working.

Smackdown should change it's name to WXW

 

[Southerntakeover]

Smackdown should change it's name to WXW

On that, am I the only one that thinks Solo is borderline comical as the 'monster'? He's a short, small, not in shape, slow guy who's being sold like he's big van vader in his prime

 

[Cyber_punk]

The Judgement day stuff with Priest is getting a bit stale now. Either have him cash in, or end it. Follow through with the Finn/JD tension which seems to have been forgotten about. I think McIntyre will end up replacing him in the stable.

Same with the Jimmy Uso stuff. Wasn't he supposed to be sabotaging the bloodline after the face turn and saving his brother? Turns back heel and doing the same thing interfering for Roman we saw for 3 years. Again, completely abandoned and forgotten about angle it seems. Boring.

 

[WA ROO]

On that, am I the only one that thinks Solo is borderline comical as the 'monster'? He's a short, small, not in shape, slow guy who's being sold like he's big van vader in his prime

They are trying to make him Umaga

 

[Cleavy]

They are trying to make him Umaga

“umanga”

 

[Southerntakeover]

They are trying to make him Umaga

Yeah, just smaller and without the look that made Umaga intimidating, the high impact move set, or anything compelling about him

 

[Cleavy]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/logan-paul-beats-legend-to-become-wwe-champion/news-story/af8b4b2d3c3f5b6b9a5bac6f174d5bc8

I guess the publicity is worth it?

 

[WA ROO]

Yeah, just smaller and without the look that made Umaga intimidating, the high impact move set, or anything compelling about him

Nepotism works

 

[Toump Ass]

I literally only know Logan Paul from news dot com. He's like some YouTuber or something? Nevermind, don't tell me, I don't care.

I don't watch wrestling anymore, I just follow it online. I still believe very strongly there is something sacred about the squared circle, when all the elements work together, magical. Nothing like it!!!

Thus this sort of crass commercialisation, the very worst of the Eric Jerkoff era, selling out storyline and REAL wrestling to dumb ****ing David Arquette and now YouTubers... very sad!!!

**** you Vince you money-hungry piece of shit!!!

 

[eDPS]

Not a fan of Logan personally but he has adapted to WWE incredibly well, has the size, look, personality and athleticism and if he hadn’t come from another platform he is exactly the type WWE would have pushed hard anyway

 

[RossFC]

Great opener with Drew and Rollins. Liked the creative after of Sami Zayn stealing Priests MITB case and running away.
Good to see Kairi back.
The rest of the show stunk, Logan Paul and Roman Reigns winning, yawn.

 

[MadMundy]

The amount of people that are upset that you know who didn't get a reaction for their return tonight is insane, most people probably barely remember them.