WWE Crown Jewel 2025

WWE’s Crown Jewel 2025 took place on Saturday, October 11th, 2025, at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia. It was the first Crown Jewel event held outside Saudi Arabia since the series began and marked WWE’s return to Australia for a main roster PLE (Premium Live Event), following Elimination Chamber: Perth in 2024.

The event centered around two “Crown Jewel” championship bouts created to determine the top competitors between the Raw and SmackDown brands.

The men’s match featured SmackDown’s Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes facing Raw’s World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins. It was a match that carried a little extra meaning because of Rhodes and Rollins’ feud in 2022, when Rhodes defeated Rollins three times in a row.

Three years later, they met again under very different circumstances. Both entered as reigning world champions representing their respective brands, and the match served as a measure of how far each had come since their original rivalry began.

The women’s match followed the same format, with SmackDown’s WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton taking on Raw’s Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer. Vaquer was looking to continue her quick rise since joining WWE, while Stratton was looking to position herself as one of WWE’s top champions.

Both Men’s and Women’s champions would retain their respective titles regardless of the outcome, but the winner was recognized as the Crown Jewel Champion, symbolizing brand supremacy heading into the year’s final stretch.

While the night was built around the champion vs. champion matchups, several other high-profile bouts rounded out the card.

John Cena faced AJ Styles in a singles match that brought back one of WWE’s most memorable rivalries. The bout was part of Cena’s farewell tour, with both men treating it as a final meeting between two long-established veterans, and it didn’t disappoint. It had that same spark and emotion that made their past encounters special. The crowd was into every moment, and by the end, you knew it would be an instant classic that people would be talking about for a long time.

Roman Reigns took on Bronson Reed in an Australian Street Fight, a matchup that stemmed from months of conflict between Reigns and Reed’s alliance with The Vision stable, which includes Seth Rollins, Bron Breakker, and Paul Heyman.

After Reed and Bron Breakker attacked Reigns following Clash in Paris earlier in the year, Reigns returned from injury to confront them on SmackDown, leading to this no-disqualification showdown in Reed’s home country. The stipulation allowed for weapons and outside interference, adding unpredictability to an already volatile feud.

The event also featured a women’s tag team bout with Asuka and Kairi Sane facing Iyo Sky and Rhea Ripley. The match followed the breakdown of former alliances within the women’s division, with Asuka and Sane turning against Sky after disagreements over past title matches and loyalties.

Ripley, who had briefly aligned with Sky earlier in the year, found herself paired with her former rival against the reformed Kabuki Warriors in a match that had lasting implications for both teams.