Live Crown Jewel Discussion Thread - Thursday October 21st

[Shane]

Awesome. I guess both girls were wearing enough clothes not to show anything but their faces? That alone is one reason I won't even watch that pay-per-view.

Pretty sure they don’t care about whether you watch.

 

[O-Blaze]

Pretty sure they don’t care about whether you watch.

But the demo

 

[Shane]

I do think it's funny they're allowed to wear skin tight leggings lol people on reddit still coming up with material from this show bc of that

maybe WWE told them they can’t work in loose clothes lmao

 

[Shane]

Finally watched the second half of the show.

Xavier Woods vs Finn Balor - ok match. Just like Mansoor vs Ali, nothing special but entertaining. Putting Xavier over Finn is strange to me. If they’re planning on giving Xavier a singles push than ok but it doesn’t look like that’s the case. Finn Balor is one of the top singles stars so idk it’s weird.

Big E vs Drew McIntyre - great match. Both men really put in the work. Of course E was winning but who cares. Both men delivered here. Really impressive.

Becky Lynch vs Sasha Banks vs Bianca Belair - another great match. All three women delivered.

Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns - not a huge fan of the match. A lot of resting and not a lot of wrestling. Too many finisher kickouts. Felt like the ending wasn’t built up at all. Brock getting beat with a title shot to the head was dumb. He’s stronger than that. Roman diving over the top was the highlight of the match.


overall a really fun PPV. Three matches were great. (Edge/Rollins, Women’s triple threat, and Big E vs Drew) while the others were all entertaining in some way. Only stinker was Zelina vs Doudrop but it got no time so whatever. 8/9 matches being good with 3 being great ain’t bad.

 

[Y2Jayne]

Pretty sure they don’t care about whether you watch.

Good, with the state of the company, it's not like I have been watching as regularly as I used to anyway.

 

[Dale]

Xavier Woods vs Finn Balor - ok match. Just like Mansoor vs Ali, nothing special but entertaining. Putting Xavier over Finn is strange to me. If they’re planning on giving Xavier a singles push than ok but it doesn’t look like that’s the case. Finn Balor is one of the top singles stars so idk it’s weird.

Probably don't wanna saddle that shit gimmick on Finn if I was to guess. Xavier's comedy so can at least make it work.

 

[Chris]

 

[Dale]

She refereed all 3 of those bangers

 

[O-Blaze]

Good stuff. Amazing matches to have as ones you was the ref of. Good stuff

 

[Dale]

During her appearance on Table Talk, Jessika Carr spoke on how large of a role Edge played in her getting booked for Crown Jewel. Here’s what she had to say:

So this was something that kind of happened progressively, starting at SummerSlam. At this point in his career, Edge likes working with people he’s comfortable with in the ring, as far as referees are concerned. And that person, for the longest time, has been Charles Robinson. At SummerSlam, Charles wasn’t booked to be there, he wasn’t planned to be there. So it was kind of a discussion between him and Edge of ‘hey, do you want to give Jessika a chance? I think Jessika would be a good option.

He was all about it, Edge was, giving me have the opportunity to learn, to be in the ring with someone that has gone through all the things he has in his career. So that was the first step of doing it at SummerSlam. And I stepped up to the plate, got all the kudos for that and it was amazing. The second chapter of that was Madison Square Garden, which was very shocking because Charles was there. I don’t know who’s decision that was or what the story was with that. But to then be at Madison Square Garden and to have Edge vs. Seth was another little tip in the hat. That was awesome.

So that was another where I stepped up to the plate, and I was literally standing in Gorilla with Edge. And Edge asked Vince ‘can we have her in Saudi Arabia?’ Vince was like ‘hmm…yeah, I think we can make that happen.’ Things had to be put in place, as far them I guess communicating with who they had to communicate with in Saudi. Then it has to go through a few extra steps and layers to make sure everyone is okay with it.

And then I guess the week before I started hearing ‘yeah, you have the cage in Saudi. You have the cage in Saudi.’ And it was like ‘okay, alright.’ If anything, what you learn, at least I’ve learned, is you can’t get excited about things until they happen, because so many things come into play as far as things changing and schedules changing and matches changing, especially in the days of COVID. So a lot of things could change. I don’t get excited about things until they happen, so not until the cage was coming down and I was standing in the ring and looking around was I like ‘okay. You can get excited now.’

Another layer to add to this cool story

 

[Chris]

Bro why is Edge so cool