WWE Clash In Italy 2026: Biggest Winners And Losers

WWE pulled into Turin, Italy for the primary ever Clash In Italy event. The show had the unlucky job of following up Saturday night’s amazing AAA show, especially the major event, and you possibly can type of tell everyone was in over their heads. For more, read the Clash In Italy 2026 Results Page, in addition to 3 Things We Hated and three We Loved.

Now, it is time to talk concerning the Winners and the Losers from Sunday’s show. There have been loads of winners, like Sol Ruca, who got a showcase victory over a serious star, and many losers, like the massive Austrian “profession killer” who cannot beat essentially the most vanilla man WWE has ever seen.

As at all times, winners could be losers, losers could be winners, and folks who didn’t even wrestle can catch strays from me. If you wish to proceed the conversation, I point you within the direction of the comments section. Otherwise, it is time to ascribe some winners and losers.

WWE Clash In Italy took place within the shadow of Saturday night’s major event mask vs. mask match between El Grande Americano and OG El Grande Americano. The match was heavily praised before the ultimate bell even rang, with the AAA Spanish commentary team outright thanking AAA booker The Undertaker throughout the match itself. For this reason, every match at Clash In Italy was weighted by WWE fans remembering what the corporate is able to, after they simply give attention to what the gang is into.

Where lots of Sunday night’s moments felt forced, Saturday wasn’t, and it meant that each Grandes’ Saturday performances were on fans’ minds throughout the perfectly cromulent show that WWE placed on on Sunday. Quite frankly, nobody at Clash In Italy had a likelihood to compete, and since we do not do AAA Winners/Losers, I simply had to handle it.

Saturday’s major event raised the bar for literally every other match produced under the WWE banner, as the corporate seemingly has no excuse, outside of laziness. Now obviously, WWE won’t luck itself right into a perfect story line like Americano vs. Americano, but the actual fact still stays that it proved the corporate can pivot to something popular after they put their mind to it. Every limitless Bloodline saga, or circuitous booking of midcarders goes to feel that way more glaring, now that we all know WWE can actually chase a legendary crowd response when they fight.

The match was so good that they are replaying it after Raw on Netflix.

Gunther has retired John Cena, Goldberg, and AJ Styles, and has absolute d*** to point out for it. His loss to Cody Rhodes within the opening of Clash In Italy was a serious case of terminal geekery.

I suppose they may construct him up again, but even when he eventually wins the WWE Title, or regains the World Heavyweight Title, he’s been slightly too vulnerable. That is the guy who tapped out to Jey Uso and lost to Pat McAfee. They’ve humanized Gunther to an unlucky degree, considering just how good he’s.

It wasn’t a nasty match, however it just didn’t feel prefer it helped anybody. Cody didn’t get a definitive win, Gunther looks like a whiny b***. The entire opening segment felt like a large step back for everybody involved, and I’m unsure the SummerSlam program goes to give you the option to put it aside. At this rate, Gunther shall be back within the Intercontinental Title scene by WrestleMania.

There’s something pretty incredible about how quickly Sol Ruca went from Green As Grass NXT Surfer to beating Becky Lynch in a PLE title match. Yes, Becky has at all times felt slightly big for the ladies’s midcard division. But just one person gets to transition that title back into its midcard status, and that’s Sol Ruca. It’s a heavy honor for the previous NXT Women’s North American Champion, and a refreshing change of pace to other, slower call-ups. 

Ruca clearly has something special, and WWE is striking while the iron is hot. Who knows what the longer term holds for Ruca, but she’ll at all times give you the option to say she beat “The Man” on a PLE. It’s totally possible this feud could go all of the method to SummerSlam. It doesn’t feel like WWE has done anything by half-measures with Sol. This win also puts her in a pleasant position to possible compete in the ladies’s Money In The Bank Match, a stipulation that ought to fit Ruca like a glove.

I simply don’t consider that WWE will ever pull the trigger on Jacob Fatu. He’s destined to be an almost-ran, who acts as muscle for guys like Roman Reigns, and possibly even Jey Uso. WWE has had many possibilities to make him right into a major event player, and it appears like he’s always sacrificed on the altar to greater stars. He’s a placeholder contender, until guys like Drew McIntyre wrap their feature film obligations.

He did not have a nasty match on Sunday, but he was never in any convincing position either. The match felt like an extended walk to an inevitable conclusion, Reigns’s title never in peril. Within the words of the poet Rodney Dangerfield, Fatu simply gets “No respect, I tell ya. None in any respect.” Roman Reigns is the middle of the Bloodline universe, and everybody else must play their parts, with their entrances and exits, however the king stays the king, and everybody else higher know their place.