WWE Crown Jewel aired live from Saudi Arabia and the show kicked off in a big way. Cody Rhodes defeated Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing match and the action continued as Bron Breakker & Austin Theory defended the WWE World Tag Team Championship against Je’Von Evans and Penta in the second match of the night.
Maxxine Durpi accompanied The Vision to the ring and she grabbed Penta’s leg at one point while he was running the ropes. Theory and Breakker then got the upper hand. Breakker put Penta in a submission hold and Penta broke out. He connected with two superkicks on Breakker, but Breakker countered with a German suplex. He then tagged in Theory and they hit Penta with a double team suplex.
Theory knocked Je’Von Evans off the apron and then pummeled Penta before tagging Breakker back in. Breakker charged at Penta and Penta superkicked him.
Finally Penta tagged in Je’Von Evans who cleaned house. Evans tagged Penta back in and a refreshed Penta hit a sling blade on Breakker then tagged Evans back in and hit Breakker with a dropkick.
Evans hit a standing Shooting Star Press and pinned Breakker, but Austin broke it up. Penta tagged back in and delivered superkicks to Breakker and Theory followed by a springboard tornado DDT on Theory. He pinned Theory, but Maxxine put Theory’s leg up on the rope.
Penta called for the Mexican Destroyer as Maxxine got up on the apron and distracted the referee. Bronson Reed appeared out of nowhere and pulled Penta out of the ring, hit him with the Death Valley Driver then threw him back in. Theory and Breakker hit the Doomsday Device and Penta kicked out.
The lights went out and Oba Femi’s music hit. The Ruler came out and Bronson Reed charged at him. Oba hit Reed with a running uppercut then threw him off the stage through a table.
Oba walked down the ramp, looked at Breakker and said, “I came here for you.” Breakker started walking up the ramp as Evans stopped him. Penta jumped off the top rope and took out Breakker then hit Theory with a Mexican Destroyer as Evans tagged in. Evans hit Theory with the OG Cutter then pinned him to win the belts.