4 Ups & 3 Downs For WWE Crown Jewel 2025 (Results & Review)

WWE’s international PLEs have been an incredibly mixed bag in recent years. On one hand, you have incredibly hot crowds filling arenas and losing their minds. On the other, you have B-show cards and mediocre in-ring action, something just a couple of steps above a house show.

Crown Jewel seemed to have a lot going on: two “titles” were on the line, Roman Reigns and John Cena wrestled, and an Aussie megastar came home to fight. But the street fight was average at best. One of the Crown Jewel Championship matches fell a bit flat. And the tag match, while great fun, isn’t going to be replayed over and over.

Still, Crown Jewel was a success for what it was. Cena and AJ Styles had a memorable tribute-style match, while Seth Rollins finally vanquished Cody Rhodes (mostly) on his own. Rhea Ripley’s homecoming was loud, and the drama unfolding after the Reigns/Bronson Reed street fight could make for interesting television the next couple of months.

That’s what makes it tough to rate these shows: There wasn’t much on here that was bad – just below average – but there also wasn’t anything transcendent. At no point did you hop off the couch and cheer or react viscerally to a high-impact move or false finish. The lows aren’t super-low, but the highs aren’t reaching anything approaching 2023-24 levels.

Thus, we have a show that gets an overall thumbs-up for being good, but it certainly won’t make anyone’s “Best of 2025” lists.

Let’s get to it…