WWE Crown Jewel Fight Size: No Mention Of “Saudi Arabia”, Attendance Notes, Rey Mysterio’s Mask Did Not Have A Cross, More
Here’s your Fight Size wrestling Update for WWE’s ‘Crown Jewel’ event:
– There was no mention of “Saudi Arabia” during the Crown Jewel broadcast other than Michael Cole stating that the ‘King Saud University Stadium’ was sold out.
– Here are some photos from the Saudi GSA Twitter account:
– Rey Mysterio did not have the signature cross on his mask at all during today’s show and the cross was edited off of his graphic for Crown Jewel.
– Following Rey Mysterio and Randy Orotn’s Quarterfinal match in the WWE World Cup, Orton delivered an “RKO” to Rey.
– Kurt Angle wrestled his first singles match in WWE in twelve years and fell in defeat to Dolph Ziggler.
– The SmackDown Live Tag Team Champions ‘The Bar’ along with their enforcer Big Show commented on their victory over New Day:
– AJ Styles defeated Samoa Joe once again to retain the WWE Championship at Crown Jewel. AJ spoke about his hard fought bout, nearly holding the WWE Championship for a full year and his forthcoming Survivor Series rematch against Brock Lesnar.
– This upcoming Wednesday, AJ Styles will have officially been WWE Champion for a full year.
– AJ Styles versus Brock Lesnar, and Seth Rollins versus Shinsuke Nakamura has been added to the Survivor Series match card.
– Brock Lesnar has become the first-ever two-time Universal Champion.
– Shane McMahon filled in for The Miz in the WWE World Cup finals and won. “Acting General Manager” of RAW Baron Corbin had the following to say about that:
– During the main event of WWE Crown Jewel which featured Triple H and Shawn Michaels taking on The Undertaker and Kane, Triple H suffered a pectoral injury and to read Fightful’s exclusive article on that, click here.