6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Crown Jewel 2019

3. Women Make History

Lacey Evans Natayla
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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.

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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.