Biggest Winners And Losers Of The Week — 6/2/2026

It has been one other eventful week in skilled wrestling. AEW not only gave us one other three-plus hours of programming on Wednesday night, but much more on Saturday. WWE traveled to Turin, Italy for Clash In Italy followed by “WWE Raw.” And we even got AAA in on the motion this week, as Noche de los Grandes was headlined by the much-hyped mask vs. mask match between two men calling themselves El Grande Americano!

We have already named winners and losers from Clash In Italy, but that does not imply we haven’t got more to say about that show and all the pieces else that went down over the course of the last seven days here on this column! Listed here are your WINC winners and losers for the week of 6/2/26!

It isn’t like our expectations for Tony Khan are all that prime at this point in the ladies’s wrestling department, but a single squash match in three hours of programming Wednesday night set the bar pretty low. And sure, those three hours were ultimately followed by a women’s match that was technically the major event, but that did not stop the discourse from raging online within the aftermath, especially because Hikaru Shida and Kris Statlander were wrestling under a “lights out” stipulation that they hadn’t gotten nearly enough screen time to justify. The response on social media was so negative that Khan needed to do damage control on a special live episode of “Collision” Saturday night, bringing in Hazuki from STARDOM and announcing a Survival of the Fittest tournament for the vacant TBS Championship.

Khan has a stacked women’s roster, and he also books Ring of Honor, which highlights the ladies’s division to a greater degree. He’s been out of excuses for some time now as to why the division doesn’t get more time on “Dynamite” and more matches on PPVs. It has to make AEW a somewhat frustrating place to work if you happen to’re a female wrestler, and it stays the largest fundamental flaw in AEW as an entire, and the best thing to criticize. It’s all well and good to tug Hazuki over to the USA for a match, but the issue is systemic, and Khan might want to make some long-term changes to his booking philosophy if he desires to avoid this particular critique from coming up many times.

Speaking of public perception (but this time the positive kind), it have to be pretty nice to be AAA right about now. No matter how anyone personally feels in regards to the El Grande Americano storyline, you’ve got to confess that the major event of AAA Noche de los Grandes has been almost universally praised because it took place, with Chad Gable and the recently-arrested Ludwig Kaiser earning accolades for the match itself and the feud and presentation that went together with it. The phrase “match of the yr” has even been thrown around, which is a fairly large accomplishment considering among the other matches which have taken place to date in 2026.

While you might consider the wrestlers themselves the large winners (and we did, in our Clash In Italy winners/losers column, no less) really it’s AAA itself that has cleaned up here. It took a storyline that seemed completely legless and turned it into its biggest match and moment of the whole yr, capturing the eye of wrestling fans in all places and delivering something that many would argue outclasses the first WWE product. When’s the last time you saw this many individuals online talking a few AAA match? Because the promotion ramps up toward TripleMania, Noche de los Grandes was a large win.

It hasn’t been the perfect week for the rising stars of WWE, particularly those currently being featured on the “Raw” brand. Jacob Fatu lost his Tribal Combat match against Roman Reigns and was forced to literally kneel in submission on Monday’s show. It’s unclear when, or if, he’ll rise to the extent of major event player again. Bron Breakker, once believed to be the favourite for the 2026 men’s Royal Rumble, just lost a match to Seth Rollins on “Raw,” and he might even have gotten hurt again. And while his showing within the first-round King of the Ring four-way was an honest attempt at rehabilitation, Oba Femi still lost to Brock Lesnar at Clash In Italy, and he’s probably not winning King of the Ring either, since he’ll presumably be facing Lesnar again at SummerSlam. In truth, despite Femi and Breakker each being in KOTR, recent reports suggest the tournament is ready to be won by Rollins as a substitute.

It’s just not terribly intelligent booking, especially at a time when WWE is affected by an extreme lack of creative wins. The one thing they really did right over the past six months — having Femi defeat Lesnar at WrestleMania — has now been walked back, and the corporate is teasing things like Reigns vs. Cody Rhodes again. The very undeniable fact that The Bloodline is once more running around dominating TV time is a mirrored image of an absence of creativity from booker Paul Levesque, and putting guys like Rollins, Reigns, and Lesnar over Breakker, Fatu, and Femi is just exceptionally short-sighted. WWE must be in a “the long run is now” moment; as a substitute, they’re stuck prior to now.

This is not Jade’s first appearance in a recent winners/losers column — we made her a winner after Saturday Night’s Foremost Event, when she pinned Rhea Ripley. But even after losing to Ripley at Clash In Italy, it’s hard to see Cargill as anything but a winner. She defeated and took out Alexa Bliss on “SmackDown,” then proceeded to have what could have been the perfect match of her profession against Ripley in Turin. And since of the way in which that match went down, she now has legitimate beef with Charlotte Flair, organising a possible dream match that fans have been waiting for since Cargill first signed with WWE. And while their singles match continues to be a thing of the long run, we haven’t got to attend long for Cargill and Flair to get within the ring together — they’re set to be a part of the identical Queen of the Ring tournament four-way quarterfinal, meaning we’re very near getting a minimum of a taste of what Cargill vs. Flair may very well be.

That just winner’s stuff, right there. Cargill may not be WWE Women’s Champion, but she’s found a foil in Ripley that ends in consistently excellent chemistry, and she or he may very well be about to seek out one other one in Flair. Her position in the WWE hierarchy is rock-solid, and at this point the Jade Cargill experiment needs to be considered a hit.