By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)
WWE Night of Champions
June 27, 2026, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at Kingdom Arena
Streamed live on ESPN Unlimited, Netflix internationally (first hour simulcast on ESPN)
Michael Cole and Corey Graves were on commentary. Cole said there were over 18,000 in attendance. Ring announcer Mark Nash delivered the introductions for the opening match. Jey Uso entered through the crowd. Oba Femi made his entrance via the stage. The Saudi fans popped just as big for Oba as the rest of the world…
1. Oba Femi vs. Jey Uso in the King of the Ring tournament final. Cole said the winner would become the 25th King of the Ring. Oba sent Jey to the corner. Jey threw a punch that Oba no-sold. Oba put Jey down with a shoulder block. Oba charged Jey, who ducked under the bottom rope and headed to the floor. Oba followed and hit Jey from behind.
Oba scooped up Jey, who slipped off his back, and shoved him into the ring post. Jey hit two suicide dives. Jey went for a third, but Oba caught him with a punch from the floor. Oba returned to the ring and performed a shoulder breaker. Oba sold rib pain from a suicide dive that sent him into the barricade.
Oba went for a chokeslam, but Jey slipped away and superkicked him. Oba came right back with a Fall From Grace attempt, but Jey slipped away again and superkicked him. Jey threw more kicks and then hit the Uso Splash, but Oba grabbed him by the throat as he stood up and then chokeslammed him for a near fall.
Oba went for a spear, but Jey superkicked him. Jey threw two more superkicks and then performed a shoulder block to Oba’s ribs. Jey speared Oba and then went up top and hit another Uso Splash. Jey followed up with another Uso Splash and got a two count. Oba sat up and held his ribs.
Jey applied a sleeper hold on the mat. Oba pounded the mat and then stood up and tossed Jey across the ring to break the hold. Oba hit a running uppercut and then threw him across the ring. Oba hit the Fall From Grace and scored the clean pin.
Oba Femi defeated Jey Uso in 8:00 to win the King of the Ring tournament.
After the match, SmackDown General Manager presented the King of the Ring crown to Oba, who shook his hand. Byron Saxton interviewed Oba in the ring. Oba said it felt good to go from being The Ruler to The King. Oba rattled off a bunch of descriptions for himself, and then his music played. Oba held up the crowd while the fans chanted his name. They cut to a commercial break… [C]
Powell’s POV: A good opener. Jey had a mildly suspenseful near fall or two. He maintained his credibility by getting some offense before Oba went over strong in the end. Oba didn’t mention which champion he intends to challenge at SummerSlam, and Cole played up the mystery of which champion he will choose.
Cole hyped SummerSlam for August 1-2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at U.S. Bank Stadium… Cole said Night of Champions was sold out with over 18,000 in attendance…
Danhausen made his entrance. The live crowd said “you are cursed” along with his entrance theme. He said it was his first time in Saudi Arabia. He said he recently came into a substantial amount of human money.
Liv Morgan’s entrance music interrupted Danhausen. Morgan walked out onto the stage and said Danhausen owes Judgment Day a lot of money. She threatened that bad things would happen to him if he didn’t repay it. Danhausen cursed Morgan, who slapped him and then made her entrance. Iyo Sky’s entrance followed…
Powell’s POV: Cursed? Do we have to wait to congratulate Iyo Sky for winning the Queen of the Ring tournament?
2. Iyo Sky vs. Liv Morgan in the Queen of the Ring tournament final. Cole said that Women’s World Champion Morgan would challenge the WWE Women’s Champion at SummerSlam if she wins. Yes, the female wrestlers wore gear that covered their arms and legs. Sky dove through the ropes and tried to sunset bomb Morgan off the apron, but Morgan stuffed it.
Sky followed Morgan on the floor. Sky climbed on the barricade in front of a group of excited kids and then performed a crossbody block on Morgan. Sky returned and celebrated with the kids. Sky turned her attention back to Morgan, who ran her into the ring post. Morgan rolled Sky back inside the ring and hit her with a running knee in the corner.
Morgan sat on the top rope and choked Sky while picking her up off the mat. Morgan drove Sky’s face into the mat and then covered her for a two count. Sky hit a step up enzuigiri and covered Sky for another two count. Sky fought back briefly and went for a missile dropkick from the middle rope, but Morgan caught her legs and went for a Boston Crab. Sky rolled over with her and then stood up and performed a double stomp.
Sky caught Morgan with a back elbow. Sky wrenched Morgan’s arm over the top rope and then hit her with a top rope missile dropkick. Sky hit the Bullet Train Attack for a near fall. Sky went for a double underhook move, but Morgan slipped out and hit a Backstabber that sent Sky to the floor. Morgan went for a suicide dive, but Sky hit her from the floor. Sky followed up with an Asai moonsault. Graves acknowledged that the move was made famous by Ultimo Dragon.
Back in the ring, Sky performed a double underhook backbreaker and covered Morgan for a two count. Sky went up top for her finisher, but Morgan shoved her, causing Sky to land feet first on the steps before falling to the floor. Sky sold knee pain. Morgan got her back inside the ring and applied the half crab, which Cole noted was the same move that put Charlotte Flair away in a semifinal tournament match.
The wrestlers traded strikes in the middle of the ring. Morgan took a shot at Sky’s knee. Sky hit her with a palm strike. Sky tried to run the ropes, but her knee gave out. Morgan put her down with a springboard into a Codebreaker before covering her for a near fall. Morgan went for Oblivion, but Sky stuffed it and had Morgan hanging over the middle rope. Sky dove from the ropes, but Morgan moved, and Sky’s bad knee hit the mat.
Morgan went up top. Sky cut her off and performed a top rope Spanish Fly. Sky followed up with Over The Moonsault and got the three count…
Iyo Sky defeated Liv Morgan in 14:55 to win the Queen of the Ring tournament.
Morgan exited the ring. Sky limped. Smackdown General Manager Nick Aldis entered the ring and presented Sky with the Queen of the Ring crown. Byron Saxton asked Sky how it felt to be Queen of the Ring. “I am the Queen,” Sky yelled. Sky pointed at Morgan, who was seated on the floor. Sky told Morgan that she would see her at SummerSlam…
Powell’s POV: A solid match. Sky selling a knee injury added some suspense, and yet I never bought into any of Morgan’s near falls. I guess they didn’t want people to speculate that Sky might opt to challenge her old pal Rhea Ripley if the WWE Champion is healthy, as they wasted no time in having Sky announce that she will challenge Morgan at SummerSlam. I think they got it right with the KQOTR tournament winners.
Cole set up a video package on the Cody Rhodes vs. Gunther vs. Sami Zayn match for the WWE Championship and noted that it would only be available via ESPN Unlimited (for fans in the United States)… Cole hyped the remaining matches. The cage lowered around the ring while Cole hyped the Bron Breakker vs. Seth Rollins match… [C]
Cole and Graves checked in from their broadcast table. They introduced the Arabic broadcast team, who spoke briefly. Graves thanked Pitbull, Ne-Yo, and Afrojack for the Night of Champions theme song…
Mark Nash read through the rules of the cage match. Seth Rollins made his entrance while the fans chanted his theme song. Rollins threw tables, chairs, and kendo sticks inside the cage. Bron Breakker made his entrance. Cole mentioned that Breakker was coming out alone because Paul Heyman was still sidelined. Breakker pulled some weapons of his own out from underneath the ring and tossed them inside the ring. Breakker brought a trash can in addition to chairs and kendo sticks…
3. Bron Breakker vs. Seth Rollins in a steel cage match. Cole said this was the first traditional steel cage match in Saudi Arabia (he later corrected himself, saying it was actually the second steel cage match in Saudi Arabia). Cole said Breakker won his only previous cage match.
Both wrestlers sat on chairs and looked at one another. Referee Charles Robinson essentially shrugged his shoulders and called for the opening bell. Rollins asked what kind of man Breakker is and said they were going to find out. Both men got up and traded punches. Breakker took Rollins down and catapulted him toward the cage wall, but Rollins caught himself.
Rollins tried to run Breakker’s head into the cage wall, but Breakker stopped. Breakker performed three German Suplexes. Breakker picked up Rolilns and tossed him into the cage wall. Breakker slammed a kendo stick over Rollins’ back twice. He set up a chair in the middle of the ring and slammed Rollins’ backbreaker style onto it before covering him for a two count.
Moments later, Breakker appeared to be going for a mid-ring Frankensteiner, but Rollins countered with a powerbomb. Rollins worked over Breakker with a kendo stick until it broke. Rollins ran Breakker into the cage wall three times. Rollins fishhooked Breakker and then slammed his head into the side of the cage several times. Cole asked what it was like to destroy your creation. Graves said he didn’t know because he’d never created anything. Cole said it was a rhetorical question.
Rollins threw chairs at Breakker, who didn’t put his hands up (hopefully they hit his shoulder rather than his head). Rollins went to the ropes with a chair, but Breakker stood up and cut him off with punches. Rollins bit Breakker, who dropped down the mat. Breakker ran up the ropes and performed a Frankensteiner onto some chairs in the ring, then covered him for a near fall.
With Rollins seated on a chair in the ring, Breakker jumped from the ropes and hit him with a clothesline. Breakker yelled that Rollins would regret even saying his name. “You’re gonna die,” Breakker said twice. Breakker swung a chair at Rollins, who avoided it. Rollins tossed a chair to Breakker, who caught it, and then Rollins kicked the chair into his face. Rollins ran toward Breakker for a Stomp, but Breakker speared him and covered him for a near fall.
Well. That was a dreadful first match.
Strap the rocket to Oba. Have him pick Roman and win at Summer Slam.
Please stop employing Iyo Sky.
This cage match lost me the moment they started throwing weapons in the cage. Cage matches don’t need weapons, especially not the worst weapon in all of wrestling, the kendo stick.