WWE Crown Jewel 2026: What Matches Could Still Be Added

With WWE Crown Jewel in Riyadh now roughly two weeks away, the event’s card remains thin, giving the promotion plenty of room to fill it out using storylines currently playing out on Raw and SmackDown.

As of now, only three matches are official: the two Crown Jewel Championship bouts and a freshly added Last Man Standing match between Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes, confirmed on the latest episode of SmackDown. That leaves a lot of real estate on an international premium live event that WWE will want stacked with marquee names.

One obvious candidate is a showdown between The 946 and The Bloodline. The 946 debuted in the Raw main event, squaring off with the Usos and Solo Sikoa, but the match ended without a finish after Carmelo Hayes returned, took out Sikoa, and aligned himself with the new faction. With War Games on the horizon next month, Crown Jewel would be a logical stop to let these two groups settle some business before that bigger blowoff.

The tag division could also get a boost from a Penta and Je’von Evans pairing against The Vision. Penta has rocketed up the card since winning Money in the Bank, splitting his focus between a pursuit of Sami Zayn’s Undisputed WWE Championship and a brewing issue with Bron Breakker. Breakker, notably, hasn’t defended his half of the World Tag Team Championship in well over 100 days, so a high-profile Crown Jewel tag match involving Penta and Evans against the Vision would give that stagnant title picture some urgency.

On the women’s side, Charlotte Flair and Jade Cargill remain unfinished business. Their rivalry, which has stretched across roughly six months, took a fresh turn on SmackDown when B-Fab and Michin dethroned Alexa Bliss and Tatum Paxley for the Women’s Tag Team Championship — a title change made possible only because Cargill attacked Flair backstage beforehand. If Bliss and Paxley are going to get another crack at the tag titles, Flair settling the score with Cargill could be the gateway to that rematch.

None of these matchups are official yet, but each fits neatly into storylines already in motion, and Crown Jewel’s history of being used to advance midcard and tag programs on a big stage makes all three plausible additions. With time running short before the Riyadh show, expect WWE to start locking in the undercard over the next couple of weeks on both Raw and SmackDown.

Whichever direction creative goes, the card’s current thinness won’t last — Crown Jewel shows rarely stay this bare for long, especially with so many storylines actively building toward a climax.