WWE Crown Jewel 2021- 21st October (Contains Spoilers)

The White Wolf · 21-10-2021 7:19pm

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I think that's been happening all night where wrestlers are avoiding interacting with certain parts of the crowd.

The White Wolf · 21-10-2021 7:29pm

A little surprised with that result but I guess of the two, Xavier's the one with less singles accolades.

The White Wolf · 21-10-2021 7:30pm

King Creed an awful missed opportunity IMO. :P

ThePott · 21-10-2021 7:33pm

Might be the best of the Saudi shows so far, not that I remember most of them.

The opener was a banger though! Surprised how much I enjoyed the Goldberg match too, his best in years. Would have loved Finn to win but I understand the logic of going with Woods. Balor definitely needs something soon though, starting to look a real goon since Cena showed up to be honest.

B.A._Baracus · 21-10-2021 7:34pm

Xaiver should have won. But wwe always have treated him like a jobber. Like, I remember you'd often see big e and kofi wrestling years ago in a tag. Never xaiver. He was always the other one.

TimesArrow · 21-10-2021 7:59pm

So The Man is gone forever then?

The White Wolf · 21-10-2021 8:02pm

Not a fan of kicking out of the Claymore, best finisher in wrestling for my money

ThePott · 21-10-2021 8:06pm

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Kevin Patrick called her the Man in a ninterview earlier I'm sure. Maybe they're just downplaying it even more in Saudi Arabia.

TimesArrow · 21-10-2021 8:45pm

Brock is in amazing shape

orecir · 21-10-2021 8:59pm

Gotta say a fantastic ppv with the correct winners

sioda · 21-10-2021 9:05pm

Enjoyed that they could have had RR win without the belt a strong spear would have done it.

Missed the early matches but Drew Big E was a Stormer, as a tag team they would be epic

J. Marston · 21-10-2021 9:05pm

Decent PPV.

HIAC was the best match by a distance.

CastorTroy · 21-10-2021 11:36pm

Becky seems to be popular over there. Looked like Sasha was late for that pin to bridge then got confused so went for the flip.

For a second I thought they were going to stop another HiaC match when Rollins was attacking Edge's head/neck and going with the chain and all.

I expect we'll have proper presentations for the King and Queen on Smackdown and Raw.

Kind of surprised they had a female referee for the men's matches. Assumed women weren't allowed to have a position of authority over men.

Now will they be allowed to leave Saudi Arabia this time? And hope for their sake the Smackdown guys don't have to do more than show up and talk tomorrow as I'd say they'll be wrecked.

22-10-2021 12:59am

Where did that ref come from😂 No way he ran the whole way down that ramp in 2 seconds 😂

PTH2009 · 22-10-2021 1:07am

Decent PPV

Not a fan of Finn losing

2ndcoming · 22-10-2021 11:09am

Another Saudi event with no title changes. They've had something like 2 in 7 shows now? 7 shows with stacked cards on paper and tons of title defences at that. Pretty soon the Saudis are going to realise they're paying all this money for hyped up, televised house shows.

22-10-2021 3:16pm

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The saudis are not paying for title changes or do they care about the WWE at all the are paying to sports wash their nation to the western world so they are not talking about the murder and beheading of journalists or the human rights abuses they commit on a daily bases or the genocide the are committing in the Yemen or the atrocities they carry out on women and those of the LGBQT community in their own nation.

Sports washing works.

Loughc · 22-10-2021 7:39pm

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Finn is a jobber to the stars now. And even woods who isn’t a star on his own.

CastorTroy · 22-10-2021 8:09pm

I take it there was no problem getting out of the country this time? Or no problems there at all?

Itssoeasy · 22-10-2021 8:34pm

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I didn’t hear of any this time. Id say that’s why the made the roster changes not come into effect until after the ppv yesterday so they have a crew in the US.

I didn’t watch the PPV and haven’t since the initial Saudi show and I’ve only seen the woman's matches on the ones since so I’ll watch two matches.

CastorTroy · 22-10-2021 11:07pm

Coincidentally enough, I watch the new series of The Equalizer and the latest episode was about Saudis and what can happen to those who speak out or are LGBTQ.

2ndcoming · 23-10-2021 12:30am

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Yeah I hear ya. At the end of the day it's the Brits and Americans selling them all the weapons so they aren't much better regardless of imagined moral superiority. Money talks and bullsh1t walks sadly. And these house shows cost a fookin fortune.