WWE’s Plans For Crown Jewel Championships Become Clear

A new report has given an update on WWE’s plans for Crown Jewel.

At Bad Blood, it was announced that WWE will decide its first-ever Crown Jewel Champions at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia on November 2nd.

At the event, World Heavyweight Champion Gunther will meet Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes and Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan will face Women’s Champion Nia Jax. The winners will then be awarded the Crown Jewel Championship.

The company’s relationship with Saudi Arabia is already controversial and somewhat divisive among fans, so the new titles were greeted with a little trepidation. However, it seems they won’t be making their way onto Raw or SmackDown.

WWE Crown Jewel Plans Revealed

According to a new report on WrestleVotes Radio via SportsKeeda’s Backstage Pass Patreon, the new championships will be Saudi Arabia exclusive.

Joey Votes: “The Crown Jewel championships we’re hearing are strictly for Saudi Arabia. They may appear the week after as raws in Saudi Arabia, but they are currently scheduled not to be full-time television titles, and they will not be defended throughout the year.

More of a winning of the King of the Ring type thing, where you win it, you celebrate, and then we move on. You remember [when] Braun Strowman won the greatest Royal Rumble and was presented a beautiful green title, and we haven’t seen it since. So it’s more of that type of thing.”

WrestleVotes: “Again, this is something when you have a partnership with the PIF, I believe it’s called over there in Saudi Arabia, they’re going to have requests for WWE of things that they want to see happen. And this Crown Jewel Championship was something that came to them as an idea, and WWE did a great way of figuring out a way to make it work.”

During the same episode, it was noted that there was a push backstage to take WWE back to Japan. Back in July, WWE returned to Japan for a run of three live events featuring the likes of Cody Rhodes, Shinsuke Nakamura, Drew McIntyre, Bayley, Bianca Belair, and more.

The run of shows was the company’s first in the country since 2019 and proved to be a big hit with not only fans but the wrestlers involved.

H/t to WrestlingNews.Co