One week ago, WWE held its fourth annual Crown Jewel event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event featured WWE's first-ever Last Woman Standing match between Bayley and the Raw Women's Champion, Bianca Belair, and an Undisputed Tag Team Championship match between the defending Usos and their challengers, the Brawling Brutes.
Despite a great effort from Paul, Roman Reigns was able to put his opponent away and retain his championship.
In the main event, the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns defended his title against Youtuber Logan Paul.Sports Entertainment's Greatest Box Office Attraction?
Earlier today, Paul Heyman took to Twitter to boast about his Tribal Chief's success. The tweet also contained a link to an Instagram post by Heyman in which he detailed WWE's recent financial success at Crown Jewel
By the way, just a note. We are not only in the the midst of the most historic title in sports entertainment history, we are witnessing the biggest office attraction EVER at his best, in his prime, reaching heights never achieved before. According to WWE itself, Crown Jewel drew the largest viewership of any international event in WWE history. The 7-figure audience on Peacock represented a 70% increase over Crown Jewel 2021, also main evented by Roman Reigns. This was the best-selling WWE event in Saudi Arabia ever with sales jumping 42% vs. Elimination Chamber this past February. For the second year in a row, WWE is enjoying over one BILLION dollars in gross revenue. Top star for all 365 days last year, and also this year? Roman Reigns. When it comes to no. 1 box office attraction of all time, it's clearly time to ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR TRIBAL CHIEF!-Paul Heyman (via Instagram)
Roman Reigns is perhaps the most dominant champion that WWE has ever seen. He continues to defeat any and all opponents placed in front of him, meaning that the Tribal Chief's legendary title reign has no end in sight.
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