WWE Crown Jewel may have been the company’s least-watched premium live event of 2026, according to Dave Meltzer.
Meltzer said on Wrestling Observer Radio that the show appears to have drawn about 1.2 million to 1.3 million views, well below most of WWE’s premium live events this year.
“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,” Meltzer said. “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.”
Meltzer said Google searches, the response he got and market-by-market numbers were all down. Crown Jewel drew about 57,000 Google searches, compared to about 200,000 for most WWE premium live events, he reported in the November 8 Wrestling Observer Daily Update.
He also said the Crown Jewel Championships are not a draw.
“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,” Meltzer said. “That’s the reality of it. It wasn’t a draw.”
WWE has not released viewership figures for the show.
Crown Jewel 2026
Crown Jewel took place on Saturday, November 7, at The Venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after being moved from Riyadh Season Stadium. World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns beat Undisputed WWE Champion Sami Zayn for the men’s Crown Jewel Championship, and WWE Women’s Champion Chelsea Green beat Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan for the women’s Crown Jewel Championship before Tiffany Stratton cashed in her Money in the Bank contract on Green to win the WWE Women’s Championship. Cody Rhodes beat Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing match, and Penta and Je’Von Evans won the World Tag Team Championship from Bron Breakker and Austin Theory.
It was the third year in a row that the event crowned men’s and women’s Crown Jewel Champions.
A planned match between Gunther and Finn Balor never made the card after Gunther decided against going to Saudi Arabia, Meltzer reported. Bronson Reed remained in Saudi Arabia with rib and kidney injuries after the show, according to Fightful Select.
Crown Jewel streamed on the ESPN app in the U.S. and on Netflix internationally.
