5 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Crown Jewel 2022

by Scott Carlson

1. New Tag Champs Crowned

damage control
WWE.com

Hats off to Damage CTRL and Asuka & Alexa Bliss for putting together a pretty good tag match that sucked the fans in.

Asuka did tremendous work generating sympathy with an injured knee, getting fans to rally behind her, and thus Bliss as well. The two teams took a couple minutes to warm up (perhaps due to the full body suits they were forced to wear), but they really delivered a good match, albeit one that will be remembered more for its ending than anything else.

One sticking point though: Did they really do a title change on Raw to pop the crowd there, then switch back to pop the crowd in Saudi Arabia and give Nikki Cross something to do, and to put the pressure on Bayley to come through on Damage CTRL’s mission statement of taking over the women’s division?

Honestly, given how the Women’s Tag Team Championship has been treated in its brief history, that’s just fine by us. At least it was used to positively affect multiple shows and storylines at once.

Advertisement
Contributor
Contributor

Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.