Crown Jewel: Analysis and Key Statistics of the Matches
WWE’s Crown Jewel pay-per-view (PLE) event will be held on Saturday from the RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia. The event will be headlined by matches for the men’s and women’s Crown Jewel championships.
The Undisputed WWE Champion, Cody Rhodes, will face the World Heavyweight Champion, Seth Rollins, in a match. In addition, the WWE Women’s Champion, Tiffany Stratton, will face the new Women’s World Champion, Stephanie Vaquer.
Featured Fights and Statistics
Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins (WWE Crown Jewel Men’s Championship)
Stephanie Vaquer vs. Tiffany Stratton (WWE Crown Jewel Women’s Championship)
John Cena vs. AJ Styles
Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky vs. Asuka and Kairi Sane
Roman Reigns vs. Bronson Reed
Before this year, six PLE Crown Jewel events have been held. The 2025 edition will be the first time the event is held outside of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The first Crown Jewel took place on November 2, 2018, with D-Generation X (Triple H and Shawn Michaels) against The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane) as the main event.
Roman Reigns has participated the most in Crown Jewel main events (3). Reigns has an overall record of 4-1 at Crown Jewel and 3-0 in the main events.
Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins for the WWE Crown Jewel Men’s Championship
Cody Rhodes will seek to obtain his second consecutive Crown Jewel championship. In 2024, Rhodes defeated Gunther, then world heavyweight champion. Rhodes has a 2-0 record at Crown Jewel, having also defeated Damian Priest in 2023.
Rhodes has an overall record of 5-1 in PLEs in 2025. His only defeat was at WrestleMania 41 in April, when John Cena defeated him for the WWE championship.
Rollins has wrestled at every Crown Jewel except the one in 2022. Overall, he has a 3-3 record, including a victory over his current The Vision stablemate, Bronson Reed, at last year’s event.
Rollins has an overall record of 4-3 in PLEs in 2025. His most notable victory was his shortest match, when he cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and defeated CM Punk at SummerSlam to become World Heavyweight Champion in August.
Tiffany Stratton vs. Stephanie Vaquer for the WWE Women’s Crown Jewel Championship
Wrestlepalooza was Vaquer’s first singles match at a WWE PLE (excluding NXT). In early 2025, he participated in three multi-person matches, including the Royal Rumble, the Money in the Bank ladder match, and the No. 1 contender Battle Royal at WWE Evolution.
Stratton has a 4-0 record in WWE PLE matches in 2025. Coming into Crown Jewel, Stratton will have been WWE Women’s Champion for 281 days. She has never wrestled Vaquer.
The inaugural WWE Crown Jewel Women’s Champion was Liv Morgan. In 2024, as Women’s World Champion, she defeated then-WWE Women’s Champion Nia Jax to earn the honor.
John Cena vs. AJ Styles
Cena and Styles began their story at WWE PLEs at Money in the Bank in 2016, a match that Styles won. They have faced each other individually at three PLE events: Money in the Bank (2016), SummerSlam (2016), and Royal Rumble (2017). Styles has a 2-1 advantage in those matches, but Cena won the most recent match at Royal Rumble, where he defeated Styles to obtain his 16th WWE Championship, tying Ric Flair for the most world championship reigns.
Cena has a 5-4 PLE record in 2025 during his farewell tour. His first PLE win of the year took place in March, when he won the Men’s Elimination Chamber match. He was defeated in his last match by Brock Lesnar at Wrestlepalooza last month.
Cena has only fought once at Crown Jewel (2023), when Solo Sikoa defeated him by pinfall.
Styles has a 2-2 record at Crown Jewel. His two victories came at the first two Crown Jewels. In 2018, he defeated Samoa Joe to retain the WWE Championship, and in 2019, he retained the United States Championship against Humberto Carrillo.
Styles’ last victory at a WWE PLE was on November 26, 2022, at Survivor Series: WarGames against Finn Bálor.
Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky vs. Asuka and Kairi Sane
Although Ripley will team with her at Crown Jewel, Sky was an opponent in three of Ripley’s five matches at PLE in 2025. Ripley has a record of 0-3 in those matches. In fact, the only time Ripley defeated Sky on the main roster was when she won the Women’s Royal Rumble of 2023.
The last WWE PLE that took place in Perth was the Elimination Chamber of 2024. Ripley defeated Nia Jax in the main event to retain the Women’s World Championship.
The first Sky match at Crown Jewel was in 2022, also a tag team match, and also involved Asuka. In that match, Sky and Dakota Kai defeated Asuka and Alexa Bliss to win the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship.
Roman Reigns vs. Bronson Reed
Reigns and Reed have faced each other in three WWE matches, all at PLE events. Reigns has a 3-0 record in those matches, including their only singles match at Clash in Paris in August.
Reed earned the first victory of his career at a WWE PLE last month at Wrestlepalooza, where he and Bron Breakker defeated The Usos.
After starting the year with a 0-2 record in WWE PLEs, Reigns will seek his third consecutive victory at Crown Jewel.
