6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Crown Jewel 2019

3. Women Make History

Let’s set aside the character break for Lacey Evans and the match quality and all of that nonsense for a minute: WWE made history with the first women’s wrestling match in Saudi Arabia. Period.

These shows have rightly been lambasted for many things, but one of the goals Triple H stated at the outset was this very one: that women would eventually wrestle here. And while they wore XL T-shirts instead of their normal gear and wrestled a pretty basic match, this was a first, and that’s truly noteworthy.

Natalya and Lacey clearly seemed moved by the entire experience, and it was great to see the fans really into it, which made you feel that this was the right move all along.