WWE Crown Jewel 2026 Results and Review: Roman Reigns Beats Sami Zayn, Every Match Rated

WWE Crown Jewel 2026 took place on Saturday, November 7, 2026, at The Venue (ANB Arena) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The show started at noon ET and streamed on the ESPN App in the United States and on Netflix in most other countries. Roman Reigns beat Sami Zayn in the main event, and the night also brought two new women's champions in the space of a few minutes, new World Tag Team Champions and a return nobody saw coming. Here is everything that happened.

Crown Jewel 2026 results

• Last Man Standing: Cody Rhodes def. Randy Orton
• World Tag Team Championship: Penta & Je'Von Evans def. The Vision (Bron Breakker & Austin Theory) (c) to win the titles
• Women's Crown Jewel Championship: Chelsea Green def. Liv Morgan
• Money in the Bank cash-in, WWE Women's Championship: Tiffany Stratton def. Chelsea Green (c) to win the title
• Men's Crown Jewel Championship: Roman Reigns def. Sami Zayn

It was a show of extremes. The best stuff, the tag title match and the main event, was very good. The worst stuff, the opener, dragged. And the moment people will remember was not a match at all: Tiffany Stratton's cash-in on Chelsea Green. Below we go through every match, what worked, what did not, and our rating.

The build

• Roman Reigns vs. Sami Zayn: World Heavyweight Champion against Undisputed WWE Champion, two former Bloodline brothers, with the Men's Crown Jewel Championship on the line. Reigns had already beaten LA Knight and Penta in title matches this year.
• Liv Morgan vs. Chelsea Green: Women's World Champion against WWE Women's Champion for the vacant Women's Crown Jewel Championship. Chelsea came in as the clear underdog. 91% of the fans who made picks on WrestleSeek went with Liv.
• Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton: Cody beat Orton at WrestleMania 42, but Orton punted him after the match. This Last Man Standing match was meant to finish the story. It was also Cody's 100th premium live event match.
• The Vision vs. Penta & Je'Von Evans: Bron Breakker and Austin Theory had held the World Tag Team Championship for more than four months without a single televised defense. Penta, the men's Mr. Money in the Bank, teamed with Evans after Breakker kept attacking both of them on Raw.

Match by match

Last Man Standing: Cody Rhodes def. Randy Orton

WWE opened with this, and it set a slow tone. The two traded kendo stick shots, used the announce desk and a garbage can, and Orton powerbombed Cody through a table. Cody answered with Orton's own draping DDT. The big spot came late: Cody climbed to the top of a ladder for a splash through the announce table, Orton moved, and Cody went through it alone. Cody then hit a super Cody Cutter and a Cross Rhodes, Orton escaped a chair shot on the ring steps with a low blow, and in the end Cody hit three Cross Rhodes in a row and punted Orton. Orton could not answer the 10 count.

What worked: the finish. Cody using the punt, the move that started all of this, was the right ending, and the three Cross Rhodes showed a meaner side of him. The ladder bump through the announce table was a good, painful-looking spot.

What didn't: almost everything in between. Last Man Standing matches live on the 10 counts, and here the counts came after offense that did not look like it should keep anyone down, so they felt like a pause button rather than drama. Long stretches were weapon after weapon with no real build, and both men looked like they were going through the motions. The crowd was flat for most of it, and parts of it turned on Cody, with "overrated" chants. As the opener of a four-match show, this needed energy, and it had very little.

Our rating: ★★½

World Tag Team Championship: Penta & Je'Von Evans def. The Vision (c)

This woke the crowd up straight away. Penta and Evans opened with dives to the outside, and Evans hit a frog splash on Theory. Then The Vision took over with numbers. Maxxine Dupri distracted Penta and later put Theory's foot on the bottom rope to stop a pin. Bronson Reed attacked both challengers behind the referee's back, hitting Penta with a Death Valley Driver, and Breakker and Theory hit Penta with an electric chair bulldog for a near fall that a lot of people bought.

Then the lights went out and Oba Femi's music played. Femi took Reed out with a running uppercut, and when Reed charged at him on the entrance stage, Femi threw him off it through a table. Breakker left the ring for a stare down with Femi, Penta dove onto him, hit Theory with the Mexican Destroyer, and Evans finished with the OG Cutter for the pin at 14:34.

What worked: pace, crowd and payoff. This was the fastest match of the night, and Penta and Evans looked like a real team, not two singles stars thrown together. The story made sense too. The Vision have won with numbers for months, so seeing them finally get beaten when someone evened the odds was satisfying. Femi's return got the biggest pop of the show, and throwing Reed off the stage was a moment. It also gave Evans his first main roster title.

What didn't: the finish was crowded. Dupri, Reed, the lights going out and Femi all happened in a couple of minutes, and the actual winning moves came while everyone was watching Femi. The new champions deserved a cleaner moment of their own. A team name would help them too.

Our rating: ★★★¾

Women's Crown Jewel Championship: Chelsea Green def. Liv Morgan

Liv controlled most of this. She worked Chelsea over with clotheslines, facebusters and a half crab she kept going back to, and played the arrogant champion well. Chelsea fought back with a superplex, a German suplex, her Rough Rider and two suicide dives. Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez came out to help Liv, but Liv sent them to the back, and that decision cost her. When Liv went for Oblivion, Chelsea countered into a jackknife pin at 16:18.

What worked: the story was clear from start to finish. Liv was confident to the point of being careless, Chelsea kept surviving, and Liv's pride in sending Judgment Day away became the reason she lost. Chelsea is easy to cheer for as an underdog, and the post-match moment, with Paul Levesque giving her the belt and ring and Chelsea talking about feeling overlooked for 13 years, worked.

What didn't: the match in between. These two did not click. Some exchanges looked awkward and mistimed, Chelsea's strikes did not look strong enough to sell her comebacks, and the crowd was quiet for long stretches. Liv also leaned on the same few moves. For 16 minutes, there were not many moments that made you sit up, and a roll-up finish after all that felt small for a title match of this size.

Our rating: ★★¾

Money in the Bank cash-in: Tiffany Stratton def. Chelsea Green (c) for the WWE Women's Championship

Right after Chelsea's speech, Liv attacked her from behind. Tiffany Stratton came out with her briefcase, hit Liv with it, and Chelsea helped her fight off Perez and Rodriguez. Then Tiffany turned and hit Chelsea with the briefcase instead, cashed in on the WWE Women's Championship, hit the Prettiest Moonsault Ever and pinned her. Chelsea's WWE Women's Championship reign ended after 97 days. It was Tiffany's second successful cash-in, and she left with the WWE Women's Championship, the Women's Crown Jewel Championship belt and Chelsea's ring.

What worked: the swerve. Tiffany had spent October trying to cash in on Liv, so coming out to "help" Chelsea was believable, and turning on her minutes after her biggest moment was cruel in the right way. It is a clear heel turn and the most talked-about moment of the show.

What didn't: it was over too fast to breathe. Liv and The Judgment Day were in the middle of it but barely mattered to how it played out, and the turn needed a beat or two more to land. Taking the Crown Jewel belt and ring, a title that was not even on the line, was a good heel touch, though.

Our rating: not rated (a cash-in lasting seconds, not a full match)

Men's Crown Jewel Championship: Roman Reigns def. Sami Zayn

The crowd was firmly with Sami, with loud chants for him and "overrated" chants for Reigns. Sami started fast, sending Reigns over the top rope and into the barricade and announce desk. Reigns slowed it down with clotheslines, a big boot and ten clotheslines in the corner. The near falls built well: a sunset flip powerbomb, a Blue Thunder Bomb, a uranage, Superman Punches. Then Sami caught Reigns with a Helluva Kick out of nowhere for the closest near fall of the match.

Reigns then hit the referee by mistake with a Superman Punch, and Sami landed a second Helluva Kick with nobody to count. A second referee ran down, the count was slow, and Reigns kicked out. Sami kicked that referee too and went for the title belt, Reigns speared him, and Sami got his shoulder up on another slow count. Sami then hit his own Superman Punch and mocked Reigns with the "ooh ahh," which was a mistake. Reigns hit a Spear out of nowhere and a second one for the win.

After the match, Sami blocked Paul Levesque from handing Reigns the title, then offered a handshake. Reigns slapped the hand away and hugged him instead.

What worked: chemistry. These two know each other inside out, and the second half was a really good back and forth. Sami looked like a true equal, not a challenger hoping to get lucky, and the Riyadh crowd made every kick-out feel big. The Helluva Kick that cut off Reigns mid "ooh ahh" was the standout spot of the match, and Reigns winning because Sami got cocky and mocked him tied the finish to the story. The embrace after the match was a nice end to the show.

What didn't: the first half was slow and showy, the usual Reigns big-match pace. The referee bump, the second referee and two slow counts in a row are tired tricks, and here they took some of the drama out of Sami's best near falls instead of adding to it. The Spear, Spear finish is also the same ending we have seen many times. Without those referee spots, this would have rated even higher.

Our rating: ★★★★¼

Our verdict

Crown Jewel 2026 was a short show with a high ceiling and a low floor. The tag title match is the one to go back and watch, and the main event is worth your time for its second half. The opener and the women's title match were letdowns, and the night belongs to Tiffany Stratton for something that took about a minute. With only four matches, there was no room for a bad one, and the show had two.

Overall: 6.5/10

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