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WWE made the trip to Saudi Arabia for Crown Jewel, and even though it was a show that many fans weren't looking forward to, the PPV turned out to be an entertaining affair. R-Truth won back his 24/7 Championship but lost it soon to Sameer Singh, Humberto Carrillo won the chance to challenge for the United States Championship, The O.C. became The Best Tag Team in the World, while The Viking Raiders suffered their first loss.
Brock Lesnar forced a tap out from Cain Velasquez, while Tyson Fury proved that he was the king in every ring when he was able to defeat Braun Strowman by TKO when The Monster Among Men was counted out.
The first-ever women's match at Saudi Arabia saw Natalya picking up a win over Lacey Evans while at the end of the Team Hogan v Team Flair bout, Roman Reigns picked up a win for Team Hogan by pinning Randy Orton.
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In a thrilling finish to the show, The Fiend Bray Wyatt was crowned as the Universal Champion that capped off a wonderful night in Saudi Arabia.
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Another interesting trip to the Middle East brought with it several botches and here are just a couple that were spotted as part of the show.
#5 Ric Flair forgets all about Drew McIntyre
One of the biggest matches of the night saw Team Flair take on Team Hogan as the duo put together their teams of five wrestlers to represent them in Saudi Arabia. Ahead of the match as part of WWE's kick-off show for Crown Jewel, Ric Flair mentioned all of the stars that were part of his match in a way to put each man over.
The two-time WWE Hall of Famer pointed out that the likes of Baron Corbin, Bobby Lashley, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Randy Orton were on his team and then stated that they were five of the best. It appears that Flair managed to completely forget about his final addition to his team and perhaps his most effective member, Drew McIntyre.
The Scottish Psychopath obviously wouldn't have been happy about this snub, but this could have just been forgetfulness on Flair's part.
#4 Erick Rowan doesn't want to be eliminated
The Crown Jewel kickoff show featured a 20-man Battle Royal, from which the winner was given the chance to challenge for the United States Championship later in the show. There were many dark horses in the match including the likes of Luke Harper, Erick Rowan, Buddy Murphy, Andrade, and Humberto Carrillo.
Interestingly, the final four contenders were Harper, Rowan, Carrillo and Cedric Alexander which was when it then became clear that the push that the former 205 Live star had been part of in recent weeks would now continue in the Middle East.
The 24/7 Championship changed hands just minutes before the end of this match when R-Truth pinned Sunil Singh, which allowed Carrillo to take advantage and brought the match down to just himself and Erick Rowan.
It appears that the former Wyatt Family member really didn't want to exit the ring and relinquish his chance to fight for the United States Championship since he was caught in the ropes and Carrillo was forced to come over and ensure that the big man was eliminated.
#3 Cesaro managed to get himself stuck
Mansoor made his main roster debut as part of Super ShowDown back in June, where he was able to come out victorious in the 51-man Battle Royal. This was when Mansoor became a star in his home country, so it came as no surprise that WWE announced that his first-ever singles match would take place as part of Crown Jewel.
Mansoor made his way to the ring to a thunderous ovation and put on quite the show in front of his home crowd, but it was Cesaro who missed a step that led to the only low point of the match. This bout could easily be considered the match of the night, but that doesn't excuse the fact that Cesaro managed to get himself caught up in the ropes when Mansoor delivered a standing dropkick that should have taken him to the outside.
Cesaro fumbled in the ropes for a few seconds before he was able to find his feet and fall to the outside. Mansoor obviously capitalized on this and it was the home town hero who went on to pick up the win in the country where it appears that the star is unbeatable.
#2 Tyson Fury has issues adapting to a different ring
Tyson Fury stepped into a wrestling ring for the first time at Crown Jewel and shockingly challenged The Monster Among Men Braun Strowman to a wrestling match after the two men seemingly exchanged more than words at SmackDown's premiere on FOX at the beginning of the month.
Fury has been part of some interesting botches throughout his time in a WWE ring, most recently when he appeared on Monday Night RAW and it was made clear that the World Champion boxer wasn't able to gimmick his punches.
He was able to come out on top in Saudi Arabia when he won his match via count-out, but that doesn't mean that it was without incident.
There were two interesting botches in the match, the first coming when the two men looked to exchange blows and The Gypsy King managed to botch a roll whilst in a wristlock. There was one more incident later in the match when Fury looked for the pin but forgot to hook the leg, yet the referee didn't stop counting even though Fury was no longer pinning Strowman.
#1 That move didn't even make an impact
The biggest Tag Team Turmoil match in history took place as part of Crown Jewel and saw The O.C. pin The Viking Raiders for the first time to become the Best Tag Team in the World. This match included a number of WWE's best tag teams including The B Team, The New Day, Bobby Roode and Dolph Ziggler, Heavy Machinery and Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder.
It was when Hawkins and Ryder made their way to the ring with hopes of defeating Roode and Ziggler that Ryder took to the top rope to deliver a neck breaker, while Hawkins was holding the star in a fireman's carry but it was clear that this didn't even touch Roode.
The former NXT star took the bump as though there was big contact, but it can be seen clearly from the clip below that there was no impact. Considering that there were nine tag teams in this match overall, it's impressive that there was only one major botch in the entire match, but from stars who have the in-ring experience of Roode, Hawkins, and Ryder, this was somewhat unexpected.
