Crown Jewel 2025: Cena and Styles Steal Perth; Rollins Finally Gets Cody

The opener is a twenty-one-minute attempt to prove that an Australian Street Fight can be differentiated from an ordinary WWE street fight by adding cricket equipment and a hometown-country monster. For a while, it works cleanly. Roman swings the cricket bat, Reed uses the stairs and furniture, and the crowd gives both men enough volume that the match feels like a genuine attraction before the inevitable family-and-faction cavalry arrives.

Bron Breakker's interference changes the match from Reigns-Reed into Vision versus Bloodline architecture. The Usos arrive, everybody crashes into something expensive, and Jey accidentally spears Roman through a table. Reed capitalizes with the Tsunami and gets the pin, which is the most important thing about the finish: WWE actually lets Bronson Reed beat Roman Reigns in Australia.

Cagematch currently sits at 6.39 from more than 430 votes and displays a 3.5-star Observer rating. ESPN was cooler on the opener than the rest of the show, while Hall found it fun. WrestleFile lands at B+ / 8.3 because the spectacle works and the result matters. It stops well below A-range because interference becomes the central mechanism rather than escalation between the two advertised wrestlers.

Vaquer and Stratton are given ten minutes to answer a champion-versus-champion question WWE spent several weeks presenting as significant. The time constraint forces efficiency. Vaquer works the leg, Tiffany responds with athletic bursts, and the match avoids the slow feeling-out period that often consumes half of a modern showcase before either wrestler begins doing meaningful damage.

The final sequence is clean and satisfying. Stratton misses the Prettiest Moonsault Ever, Vaquer capitalizes and lands the corkscrew splash for the championship trophy. No faction arrives, no referee disappears and no regular world title changes hands. The wrestlers simply determine a winner.

Cagematch currently has the match at 6.94 from more than 460 votes and displays a 3.25-star Observer rating. ESPN considered it too brief, which is the obvious criticism. WrestleFile lands at B+ / 8.2 because the execution is crisp and Vaquer's clean victory matters to her ascent. The missing five-to-eight minutes are the difference between a strong showcase and something that might have become one of the night's true standouts.

Cena and Styles make the dangerous choice to turn their final match into a wrestling scrapbook and then execute it well enough that the indulgence becomes the point. Cena's borrowed offense references Miz, Rusev, Chris Jericho, Bray Wyatt, Kane, Randy Orton and Undertaker. Styles answers with pieces associated with Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, Samoa Joe, Sting and Shawn Michaels. The match would collapse if those references existed only to make viewers point at the screen. Instead they become shorthand for where both careers have been.

The actual wrestling underneath the tribute is excellent. Styles remains smooth enough to make the sequences feel competitive rather than ceremonial, Cena sells the danger, and the near falls build without requiring outside interference. The closing image is perfect for the idea: Cena catches the crossbody, turns it into Undertaker's Tombstone, then returns to his own identity with the Attitude Adjustment for the win.

Cagematch currently rates the match 8.97 from 800 votes and displays a 4.75-star Observer rating. ESPN centers its positive review of Crown Jewel around the match, and Hall calls it an all-time classic. WrestleFile goes A+ / 9.8. The excess is deliberate, the execution is elite and the farewell context makes the form appropriate. This joins the site's rare A-plus tier because the match knows exactly what it wants to be and almost completely achieves it.

Following Cena and Styles is an unfair assignment, so the four women wisely avoid trying to reproduce the nostalgia and instead wrestle the most traditionally excellent match on the card. Asuka and Kairi isolate Iyo, the history between former Damage CTRL allies gives every control sequence emotional meaning, and the crowd waits for Ripley's tag with the patience of people who know exactly which Australian they paid to see.

Once Rhea enters, the match accelerates rather than resets. Kairi takes increasingly violent bumps, Iyo supplies the aerial counters, and Asuka's interactions with Iyo feel personal enough that the broader feud remains alive even as the babyface team builds toward victory. The closing Riptide into Over the Moonsault is clean and definitive.

Cagematch currently has the match at 7.53 from more than 450 votes and displays a 4.25-star Observer rating. The Observer score is warmer than the community number, and WrestleFile lands warmer still at A / 9.1. The match has pace, crowd investment, relationship-driven psychology and an excellent final third. It misses A+ because the opening control work is more conventional than exceptional.

Rollins and Cody spend nearly thirty minutes wrestling a main event whose actual championship is less compelling than their personal history. That turns out to be the correct approach. Rollins is 0-3 against Cody in singles matches since Rhodes returned to WWE, so the real stake is whether Seth can finally solve the person who has become a permanent hole in his résumé.

The match builds through arm work, big counters and increasingly desperate stolen offense. Cody's avalanche Cross Rhodes and Rollins' coast-to-coast headbutt create the strongest late near falls, while the crowd's hostility toward Seth becomes another opponent he is visibly trying to beat. Then the watch returns. Rollins uses the Rolex Cody once gave him after the referee bump, follows with the Stomp and hits the elevated Stomp for the victory.

Cagematch currently has the match at 8.21 from more than 500 votes and displays a 3.75-star Observer rating. Hall gives it B, criticizing the length and the obvious watch setup, while broader reception is considerably warmer. WrestleFile lands at A / 9.0 because most of the twenty-nine minutes are excellent and the first Rollins singles win over Cody matters. The dirty finish is exactly why it does not reach full A: after that much high-level wrestling, the match deserves to trust itself.