The Tribal Chief’s glory run continues.
He was ostensibly helped by Paul Heyman, but Heyman’s true allegiances weren’t made crystal clear.
The way it shook out, expect a rematch between these two: The Reigns-Lesnar saga is not over.
Overall, it was a far better show than previous Saudi events.
The WWE Championship contest, in which Big E successfully defended against Drew McIntyre, was also strong.
Elsewhere, Goldberg defeated Bobby Lashley and Becky Lynch was able to retain her SmackDown Women’s Championship.
Xavier Woods is the King of the Ring, while Zelina Vega won the Queen’s Crown.
Scroll down for full results and analysis from Crown Jewel 2021.
Roman Reigns beats The Beast
Roman Reigns is still your Universal Champion.
Lesnar dominated at first, as you’d expect.
He cut Lesnar down with a Spear for a two count.
Reigns blitzed Lesnar with a series of Superman Punches, then went for another Spear.
Lesnar, being the freak that he is, leapfrogged over Reigns, who crashed into the turnbuckle.
The whole crowd loved this.
Lesnar finally took Reigns to Suplex City, hitting him with three more German Suplexes.
Lesnar landed an F5, but only got a two.
Lesnar manages to land a second F5, but inadvertently knocks out the referee.
When he turns around, he eats another Spear from Reigns.
Heyman throws the Universal Championship into the ring, right in the middle of Lesnar and Reigns.
They get into a tug-of-war, then the Usos interfere by hitting a double Superkick onto Lesnar.
Reigns then clobbers Lesnar with the Universal Championship for the pinfall.
Also important to note: Heyman’s allegiances remain unknown.
On paper, Heyman helped Reigns retain the title by lobbing the Universal Championship into the ring.
This is not over.
All three women were given superstar reactions as they were announced.
This triple threat moved at about a million miles an hour.
In the match’s final moments, Belair hit a Kiss of Death finish on Lynch.
Banks prevented Belair from pinning Lynch, and Belair and Banks then scrambled to pin Lynch.
Still, thereweremany creative spots and thiswasfun.
Big E retains WWE Championship
These two huge men threw each other all over the place.
He followed it up with a nice spinebuster in the ring.
There were consistent chants of “McIntyre!”
After McIntyre missed another Claymore, he rolled onto the apron.
The crowd is way into this.
Rating: 4 stars.
This was a nice match, but the crowd was tired.
There were still chants, but only from sections of the audience.
(There’s a pocket of fans determined to make “this is awesome!”
Most of the stadium was quieter than bouts, which makes sense three hours into the show.
HIGH RISK, HIGH REWARD.
He’s just such a great wrestler: Everything he does is so crisp and tight.
Ultimately, he ate the pin after a top-rope elbow drop from Woods.
Rating: 3 stars.
Goldberg beat Bobby Lashley
This was a No Holds Barred, Falls Count Anywhere match.
The buildup centered around each man wanting to literally kill each other, so violence was assured.
Goldberg ultimately won by Spearing Lashley off the stage.
He clocked Goldberg with it at the outset, causing immediate blood.
Lashley then barraged Goldberg with chair shots and set a table up in the corner.
Before doing anything with said table, Lashley tackled Goldberg’s leg, which he storyline injured at SummerSlam.
Lashley wrapped Goldberg’s leg in a chair, jumped off the middle rope and stomped on it.
That set up a Spear through the table, but Goldberg dodged it so Lashley crashed through the wood.
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Absolute brutality.
Goldberg pushed Lashley outside, then Speared him through the barricade.
As Lashley tried to retreat up the ramp, the Hurt Business came to Lashley’s aid.
They brought Kendo Sticks, and then ran at Goldberg.
Goldberg was able to swat them away and followed up by Spearing Lashley off the stage for the win.
Rating: 3 stars.This was more entertaining and varied than most Goldberg matches.
Vega landed a Code Red on Doudrop, impressive given their size disparity.
Rating: 2 stars.No need to watch this.
Nothing wrong with it, but nothing special about it either.
But it really picked up when Riddle and AJ were in the ring together.
They had a hot sequence of trading blows and countering moves, but it was short-lived.
Riddle then landed a Floating Bro for the pin.
Rating: 2.5 stars.This felt like filler.
Riddle’s entrance did rule, though.
He took off the Keffiyeh to reveal himself as Saudi Arabian silver medal Karate player Tareg Hamedi.
He kicked Ali, then posed with Mansoor for the crowd.
Edge pins Seth Rollins
Crown Jewel opened with a match that will be very hard to top.
Edge won the match by Curb Stomping Rollins onto a chair.
The match started hot.
Edge then brought chairs into the ring, so weapons were integrated almost immediately.
He then hit a Frogsplash for a two count – the first of many near-misses.
Rollins planted Edge with the Unprettier, Christian’s finishing move, for another nearfall.
Rollins scaled the top rope, but Edge pushed him off the turnbuckle and Rollins crashed through the table.
With Rollins down, Edge set up the steel steps in the middle of the ring.
The crowd showered them with a “This is Awesome!”
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Edge barraged Rollins with superkicks and locked him in a crossface using a wrench from the aforementioned toolbag.
Before Rollins can tap out, Edge broke up the hold.
He planted a chair underneath Rollins, hit him with the Curb Stomp and pinned him, 1-2-3.
Rating: 4.25 stars.
I feel bad for whoever has to follow this.
Kickoff Show results
The Kickoff Show saw The Usos face the newly reformed Hurt Business.
This short match ended when Jey Uso pinned Cedric Alexander following a top-rope splash.
