There was a lot of controversy heading into the WWE Crown Jewel premium live event this year, but nevertheless the show seemingly went off without a hitch over the weekend.
Crown Jewel featured a four match card which saw Cody Rhodes defeat Randy Orton, Je’Von Evans & Penta become the new WWE World Tag Team Champions, and Chelsea Green and Roman Reigns win their respective Crown Jewel Championship belts.
Even though things went smoothly for the show it appears that the interest level was a little low as Dave Meltzer claimed on Wrestling Observer Radio that viewership for the show was down compared to previous years.
“It appears that the pay-per-view, Crown Jewel, did much lower than most of the pay-per-views this year, maybe even the lowest. I don’t have the number, but I have enough numbers of things in different places to where you can kind of feel it’s about 1.2, maybe 1.3 million views. And most of the pay-per-views are closer to two.
The Google searches were way down, my response was way down, but in the market-by-market numbers, it was much lower than usual. The idea of these Crown Jewel championships, now that we’ve done it for a couple years and it means nothing, people don’t go out of their way to see it. That’s the reality of it. It wasn’t a draw.”
The next premium live event on the schedule is WWE Survivor Series. Earlier this week multiple matches were confirmed for the show and you can get more details on that here.