WWE Night Of Champions 2025: Biggest Winners And Losers

WWE crowned a King and Queen at Night of Champions, but now it’s Wrestling Inc.’s turn to crown the PLE’s biggest winners and losers! Your usual guide through this process, the incomparable Ross W. Berman IV, is coping with an illness, currently, which suggests you all must cope with WINC’s lead news editor, Miles Schneiderman, who would really like to be the primary to apologize prematurely.

Remember, if you must know all the main points of every part that happened at Night of Champions, our results page has you covered. If you must know what we thought concerning the show, you have got our loves and our hates for that. And even in case you just wish to know the way we see every part playing out after the event, you may try Where Do We Go From Here? Proceed on this column, nevertheless, in case you’re excited by the Biggest Winners and Biggest Losers from WWE Night of Champions 2025.

Not simply because he won King of the Ring, adding to his already stacked list of WWE accolades, but because Rhodes taking the WWE Championship back from John Cena at SummerSlam now officially looks like a foregone conclusion. Nonetheless you are feeling about Cena’s heel turn and title run, I guarantee you there’s only a few month left of it; the WWE Championship has yet to alter hands at a non-WrestleMania event since Paul Levesque took over as CCO, but since Cena’s last ride ends when the calendar hits 2026, it’s SummerSlam or never.

I’m not likely banking on WWE’s latest tease of a possible Cody heel turn — they have been teasing it for at the least a yr now and it keeps not happening. I do not know where his character goes as champion after he reclaims the belt, I just know he will. Which, good for you, Cody. The Travis Scott run-in would have been an actual sour approach to end things.

I do know she’s checking all of the primary roster boxes the moment she hits them, but Roxy should probably have reconsidered checking the “cannot even help my teammate cheat to win” box quite so early. When the WINC staff made picks for this event, just about all of us went for Rhea Ripley, but a pair people picked Raquel Rodriguez, because they were pondering logically. With Liv Morgan injured, the word has been that Perez goes to exchange her as Rodriguez’ partner, potentially grandfathering her right into a women’s tag title reign. WWE has been constructing to this by having Perez help Judgment Day members, including Rodriguez, win matches. If she’d helped Rodriguez win here, that might have been a natural approach to officially kick off their latest alliance, all while giving Rodriguez a singles PLE win she desperately needed.

Those of us who picked Ripley, then again, weren’t pondering logically. We were pondering “Triple H loves him some Rhea Ripley,” and we were right. It isn’t the perfect search for Rodriguez, however it’s an actively terrible search for Perez, who now appears so ineffective she couldn’t turn the tide in a two-on-one fight where she had the advantage in a situation where there have been no rules. Why would anyone wish to team together with her and often go up against two people when she will’t even make a difference against one?

That is the best layup of the column, for obvious reasons. Whenever you end up wrestling in Saudi Arabia (certainly one of like 4 shows on the calendar WWE actually cares about) after not making a PLE since WrestleMania 40, you are a winner — that is just the principles. Not only that, but Kross was given the prospect to shine as a really threatening heel throughout his match with Sami Zayn, who pulled out the victory on the very end while Michael Cole used the word “miracle” on the decision. So yeah, back on PLE, match with a giant star, and also you get to make it appear to be that big star was only barely in a position to beat you? That is not bad work for a Saturday.

I do not know if Kross will proceed with this momentum or even when he should, but I’m blissful for him that what has been a few yr of obvious frustration and labor paid off for him at this event.

Speaking of people that have been laboring in frustration for short time, how about Solo Sikoa finally getting a shot with a midcard singles title? No one at Night of Champions needed a win greater than Solo — after main-eventing SummerSlam 2024 against Cody Rhodes (while coping with a vocal fanbase insisting he didn’t deserve it) and eventually losing the Ula Fala back to Roman Reigns at first of 2025, Solo had plummeted down the cardboard, suffering loss after loss, missing WrestleMania, and usually being seeing as holding back the more talent wrestler in his orbit, Jacob Fatu. A loss and/or a foul performance here might need meant the tip for him, despite the undeniable fact that like Kross, he’s been doing wildly entertaining promo work previously several months.

Solo responded beautifully, working his ass off in a very good match with Fatu — Solo’s best match shortly — and more importantly, coming away with the boys’s United States Championship. If you happen to’re upset by the best way it went down since you don’t love interference finishes, I’m very sorry but that’s just American wrestling in 2025, despite what AEW fans will attempt to let you know after 15 people interfere within the All In primary event. That is the world we live in, and if I actually have to live in a version of that world, I’d relatively live within the one where Solo gets rewarded for all the great work he’s done and the improvements he’s made.

It isn’t like there was a ever a giant probability Asuka was winning this one, but in case you’re still holding out hope for Cargill after what has been a considerably rocky begin to her WWE profession coming off her dominant run in AEW, it’s probably nice to see her win Queen of the Ring and set herself up for what could thoroughly be a WWE Women’s Championship victory at SummerSlam. Tiffany Stratton’s reign will probably have about run its course by August (I used to be expecting it to finish at WrestleMania, personally) and to me it makes all of the sense on the planet to crown Jade … after which immediately have Naomi money in and beat her. Then you definitely can have Jade chase Naomi for some time, eventually get the title back, and presumably wrestle Bianca Belair for it at WrestleMania 42. That is a fairly good ROI in case you bought Jade stock in 2023.

Is it barely concerning that WWE doesn’t trust Cargill to go greater than eight minutes with a veteran like Asuka in a Queen of the Ring final on a PLE? No — it’s actually very concerning. But WWE has never shied away from strapping up people they didn’t necessarily trust within the ring, so it stays likely that 2025/2026 is Cargill’s yr.

Personally, I do not care that CM Punk decided to wrestle in Saudi Arabia. It doesn’t personally offend me, just because the concept of the Saudi shows basically don’t personally offend me. That said, it’s extremely funny that Punk used up most if not all of his credibility, especially with a certain type of fan, so he could work one last match with Cena that no one goes to recollect in a number of months.

Possibly they might have, if the match had been given a correct finish. Until all of the interference began (once more, that is wrestling in 2025) things between Punk and Cena were actually going pretty much. But then all of the nonsense began to occur, and Seth Rollins and his gang got here out, and Sami Zayn got here out and Penta got here out and the match suddenly, tragically became about every part around Punk and Cena, not about Punk and Cena themselves. CM Punk got here back to WWE, agreed to work a Saudi show, let Cena drop a pipebomb promo on him, transformed into “the Doctor of Punkanomics” in response, flew the world over in the course of a global crisis, and apologized to Saudi fans for an old tweet, all so he could wrestle a match that was a cautionary tale before it had even ended. Looking back, it just looks like a large waste of time that might be best remembered for Punk solidifying his popularity as a sell-out — though he a did admittedly drop some bars on “SmackDown.”