6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Crown Jewel 2019

by Scott Carlson

1. The Fiend Takes The Gold

The Fiend Bray Wyatt

WWE.com

It was a month overdue, but Bray Wyatt is your new WWE Universal Champion.

The match itself was too long and too over-the-top with Seth Rollins stomping The Fiend’s head into the stage a half-dozen times, but the outcome was at least the right one this time, as WWE seemingly learned its lesson from Hell in a Cell, where the match was rightly booed out of the arena.

Rollins threw everything he had at Wyatt, complete with steel chair shots, steel steps, eight stomps on the floor, countless superkicks and a few sledgehammer shots to boot. But The Fiend kept coming, finally locking in the Mandible Claw and hitting Sister Abigail for the title.

We could have done without Rollins kicking Wyatt into a pile of pyro for a cartoonish explosion, but when Fiend rose up out of the pile, it provided a really cool visual.

It will be interesting to see how they handle all of this, with Wyatt on SmackDown Friday night and the title originally belonging to Raw, but hey, maybe that’ll put more eyes on the blue brand this week, which would be a nice change of pace.

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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.