WWE and Riyadh Season return in Saudi Arabia today.
WWE Crown Jewel 2024 goes down this afternoon, with the “Countdown to WWE Crown Jewel 2024” pre-show starting at 11am EST. / 8am PST., leading into the premium live event starting at 1/12c from Mohammed Abdo Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
On tap for today’s show is Roman Reigns & The Usos vs. The Bloodline, Jade Cargill & Bianca Belair vs. Damage CTRL vs. Meta-Four vs. Chelsea Green & Piper Niven for the Women’s tag titles, LA Knight vs. Andrade vs. Carmelo Hayes for the U.S. title, Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens, Seth “Freakin'” Rollins vs. Bronson Reed, Liv Morgan vs. Nia Jax for the WWE Crown Jewel Women’s title, and Cody Rhodes vs. GUNTHER for the WWE Crown Jewel Men’s title.
Featured below are complete WWE Crown Jewel results from Saturday, November 2, 2024. The following report was written by PWMania.com reporter Matt Boone (@MattBoone0709) as the show aired live from 11am – 5pm.
WWE CROWN JEWEL RESULTS – NOVEMBER 2, 2024
“WWE Then. Now. Forever. Together.” narrated by Paul “Triple H” Levesque starts things off as always. We then see a shot of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as Michael Cole welcomes us to the show.
The Riyadh Season signature quickly plays and then we shoot to the pre-show panel, where Cole, Corey Graves and Big E. welcome us to “Countdown To WWE Crown Jewel 2024.”
After they run down the lineup for today’s big show, we shoot to Cathy Kelley and others as part of the pre-show broadcast team, backstage for quick introductions. They shoot to a Joe Tessitore sit-down interview with GUNTHER.
When the Tessitore-GUNTHER sit-down chat wraps up, we head back to the pre-show panel, where Cole, Graves and Big E. weigh-in with their thoughts on the WWE Crown Jewel Men’s Championship showdown between GUNTHER and Cody Rhodes.
We see some arrival shots for the women’s talent involved in the four-way tag-team title tilt in today’s show. We then see the arrival of WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque, who will be appearing later in the pre-show. Jackie Redmond talks to Solo Sikoa, who tells her to mind her business about his talk with Sami Zayn.
From there, we shoot to a live interview with Seth “Freakin'” Rollins, who talks about his match against “Big” Bronson Reed. The panelists weigh-in with some more talk and then shoot to a video package for the Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens match.
Back live, Cathy Kelley is backstage with Kevin Owens for an interview. Owens brings up flipping a dune buggy three times as soon as he got to Saudi Arabia. He said Cathy was there and he has no doubt that Orton or Cody Rhodes paid off the driver to make that happen. He apologizes to Cathy for being collateral damage.
After the panelists react to Owens’ wild claims of a driver being paid to put him in a car wreck in Saudi Arabia, they sent things to Peter Rosenberg, who checks in from his in-home studio that he uses sometimes for his HOT 97 broadcasts. He talks more about the Orton-Owens bout and how Triple H spoke about protecting Orton from Owens.
Now we head to the Middle Eastern Social Media Team’s Nathalie Mamo, who sits down for an exclusive interview with WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque. He talks about the partnership between WWE and Saudi Arabia.
Once that wraps up, the pre-show panelists swap out with a new crew. Replacing Michael Cole and Corey Graves at the panel are Jackie Redmond and Sheamus. They introduce a Big E. main event menu in Saudi Arabia video package, which shows the former WWE Champion eating around the region.
Back to the panel, the panelists send us to a video package that looks at the scheduled showdown between The Bloodline trio of Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu & Tama Tonga against Roman Reigns, “Main Event” Jey Uso & Jimmy Uso.
Things head back to the panel, who introduce a special sit-down interview that Cathy Kelley conducted with Cody Rhodes on “The American Nightmare” bus. Nothing special there. When it wraps up, Nia Jax is interviewed backstage live, but doesn’t say much before telling Cathy she’s busy.
A video package airs to tell the story leading up to today’s WWE Crown Jewel Women’s Championship showdown between Nia and Liv Morgan, as well as the Tiffany Stratton Ms. Money In The Bank potential cash-in dynamic. We see a special look at the WWE Experience in Riyadh.
Carmelo Hayes, Andrade and LA Knight arrival footage is shown as the pre-show panelists talk about the WWE United States Championship triple-threat match. Backstage live, Cathy Kelley catches up with the birthday weekend “Mega Star” himself, who talks about his U.S. title defense in Saudi Arabia.
The Bloodline vs. Roman Reigns & The Usos
The Bloodline theme hits to kick off the premium live event portion of today’s show. Out comes Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa, the last of whom will be at ringside for this one.
The fans begin chanting “OTC! OTC!” On cue, Roman Reigns’ theme hits first for the opposition and out he comes accompanied by Jimmy Uso. Wonder if that was planned or an audible was called? Gotta think Jey Uso first, then “The OTC,” no?
The always energetic ring entrance for Reigns and Jimmy’s partner, “Main Event” Jey Uso, hits next. The Riyadh crowd gets YEET-happy as the former WWE Intercontinental Champion makes his way to the ring to join his brother and cousin for battle against his other brother and cousins.
Jey Uso and Tama Tonga kick things off for their respective teams, and it is The Bloodline who gets Jey down and pounds away at him to jump into the early offensive lead.
