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WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming event
The 2024 Crown Jewel is an upcoming
professional wrestling
event produced by the American
company
WWE . It will be the sixth
Crown Jewel and will take place on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at the
Kingdom Arena in
Riyadh ,
Saudi Arabia . The event will air via
pay-per-view (PPV) and
livestreaming and will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's
Raw and
SmackDown
brand divisions . This will be the 12th event that
WWE will hold in Saudi Arabia under a 10-year partnership in support of
Saudi Vision 2030 .
Production
Background
In early 2018, the American
professional wrestling promotion
WWE began a 10-year strategic multiplatform partnership with the
Ministry of Sport (formerly General Sports Authority) in support of
Saudi Vision 2030 ,
Saudi Arabia 's social and economic reform program.
[1]
[2]
Crown Jewel was then established later that same year as one of the recurring events in this partnership to be held in
Riyadh , the capital of Saudi Arabia, in late October–early November. Officially announced on May 25, 2024, during
King and Queen of the Ring , the sixth Crown Jewel, and 12th overall event in the Saudi Arabian partnership, was scheduled to be held on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at the
Kingdom Arena .
[3] The event will air on
pay-per-view worldwide and will be available to
livestream on
Peacock in the United States and the
WWE Network in most international markets, and it will feature wrestlers from the
Raw and
SmackDown
brand divisions .
[4]
Storylines
The event will include matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,
[5]
[6] while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows,
Monday Night Raw and
Friday Night SmackDown .
[7]
References
^ WWE.com Staff (March 5, 2018).
"Saudi Arabia to host the Greatest Royal Rumble" .
WWE .
Archived from the original on March 5, 2018. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
^
"National Transformation Program 2020" (PDF) . Archived from
the original (PDF) on August 28, 2017.
^ Lambert, Jeremy (May 25, 2024).
"WWE Crown Jewel Announced For November 2 In Saudi Arabia" . Fightful . Retrieved May 25, 2024 .
^ Currier, Joseph (May 25, 2024).
"WWE reveals date for Crown Jewel 2024" .
Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online . Retrieved July 8, 2024 .
^ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006).
"How Pro Wrestling Works" . HowStuffWorks .
Discovery Communications .
Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012 .
^
"Live & Televised Entertainment" .
WWE . Archived from
the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012 .
^ Steinberg, Brian (May 25, 2016).
"WWE's 'Smackdown' Will Move To Live Broadcast On USA (Exclusive)" .
Variety .
Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
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