The 2025 Crown Jewel, also promoted as Crown Jewel: Perth, is an upcoming

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(PPV) and

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produced by the American

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. It will be the seventh Crown Jewel and will take place on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the

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, and will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event will be based around the crowning of the second men's and women's Crown Jewel Champions. This will be the first Crown Jewel held outside of

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as all previous Crown Jewel events were held in the country's capital of

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. The event will feature

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's last pay-per-view and livestreaming event appearance in Australia as an in-ring performer due to his retirement from professional wrestling at the end of 2025.

Production

Background

Crown Jewel is a

(PPV) and

event produced by the American promotion

since 2018, typically held in late October–early November. From its inception until 2024, it was the main recurring event that took place in

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as part of a 10-year partnership with the country in support of

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's social and economic reform program, and it was held as part of the annual

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festivities. Beginning with the 2024 event, Crown Jewel became centered around the men's and women's Crown Jewel Championship matches, held between the respective men's and women's world champions of WWE's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions to determine the "best of the best". In February 2025, following the success of the 2024 Elimination Chamber, which was held in

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, WWE announced that they would be returning to

sometime in 2025 for a takeover weekend that would include a PPV and livestreaming event and tapings of ''

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'' and ''

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''. As a result of the

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in January 2026 being held as part of Saudi Arabia's 2025–2026 Riyadh Season, on May 2, 2025, the Australian PPV and livestreaming event was announced as the seventh Crown Jewel, also promoted as Crown Jewel: Perth, scheduled for the

on Saturday, October 11, 2025, marking the first Crown Jewel to not be held in Saudi Arabia. ''SmackDown'' was also confirmed for October 10 and ''Raw'' on October 13 at the same venue. In addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide and via livestreaming on

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in the United States, the event will also be available to livestream on

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in most international markets and the

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in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Crown Jewel to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas.

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, ''Monday Night Raw'' and ''Friday Night SmackDown''.

Matches

References

External links

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