Alright, so you wanna know about this “Crown Jewel” thing, huh? It’s like a big ol’ wrestling show, they call it “professional wrestling,” whatever that means. Sounds fancy, but it’s just a bunch of folks in tights smackin’ each other around, if you ask me.
They say it’s put on by somethin’ called “WWE,” sounds like one of them alphabet soup places the government likes. Anyways, these WWE folks, they’re from America, and they put this show on every year, started ’round 2018 or so. Except for that one year, 2020, when everything went haywire, remember? Yeah, that whole mess. They didn’t have the show that year.
This “Crown Jewel” show, it ain’t free, mind you. You gotta pay to watch it, either on your TV, they call it “pay-per-view,” or on their computery thing, the “livestreamin’.” My grandson, he’s always fiddlin’ with that computery thing. Says it’s the future. I say it’s a headache.
Now, where do they have this shindig? Way over yonder in some desert place, Saudi Arabia, they call it. Rich folks over there, I hear. Got all that oil money. So, these WWE folks, they teamed up with the sport fellas over there, made some kind of deal, I guess. Ten years, they said. That’s a long time, even for an old woman like me.
So, what happens at this “Crown Jewel”? Well, like I said, wrestlin’. Big fellas, small fellas, they all jump around and pretend to beat each other up. Sometimes they win belts, shiny things, sayin’ they’re the best. My grandson tells me they call them “championships”. They had one fella, Cody somethin’-or-other, he won one of them belts. Beat another fella, they said he was the “undisputed champion”. Sounded important. He won a new belt, they called it the “Crown Jewel Championship”. First time they ever had that one, I reckon.
- They got all sorts of matches, they call ’em. Sometimes it’s one fella against another, sometimes it’s teams.
- One time, this big fella, Roman somethin’, he won his match, but nobody cared ‘cause another fella, Solo, he just went and whooped on this John Cena fella. John Cena, I know him, he’s on the TV sometimes. Good lookin’ fella, always smilin’. Got beat up pretty bad, though.
- And they do all this in this desert place, Riyadh. Sounds hot. I prefer my sittin’ room, thank you very much.
People get all riled up about it, talkin’ ’bout who’s gonna win, who’s gonna lose. They got these fellas, they call ’em “experts,” they sit around and jaw about it. Like they know somethin’ the rest of us don’t. And these computery places, they got folks writin’ about it too, tellin’ you what happened, blow by blow. My grandson, he’s always readin’ that stuff, “Bleacher Report” he calls it. Says it’s got all the “news” and “rivalry analysis”. Sounds like a bunch of hooey to me.
They even got these little computery things, what do they call ‘em, “hashtags”? Yeah, “hashtags”. They put ‘em on everything. #CrownJewel, they say. Like that’s gonna make it better. It’s just wrestlin’, folks. Don’t get your britches in a twist.
So, that’s the “Crown Jewel” for ya. A big ol’ wrestling show in the desert, costs money to watch, and folks get all worked up about it. Me? I’d rather watch the birds in my yard. At least they don’t charge me for it.
But if you like that sort of thing, well, have at it. Just don’t expect me to understand it.
This year they had it in November, the 4th I think it was. My grandson was glued to that computery thing all day. Didn’t even come out for supper. Kids these days…
Anyways, that’s all I know ‘bout this here “Crown Jewel” thing. Hope it makes some sense to ya, ‘cause it sure don’t make much to me.
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