This weekend, WWE returns to Madison Square Garden for the newest edition of Saturday Night’s Major Event, a four-match card with just one championship on the road, but loads of bad blood to go around as Bayley battles the traitorous Lyra Valkyria and Cody Rhodes teams up with CM Punk to tackle their most up-to-date rivals, GUNTHER and Sami Zayn. Throw in Danhausen’s triumphant return to Latest York in a No Disqualification match with JD McDonagh and you have got a stew going!
But who will win each of those matches, and who will come up short? That is what Wrestling Inc.’s predictions column goals to search out out. Granted, WWE Night of Champions wasn’t our greatest showing, but we nailed WWE NXT Great American Bash and AEW X NJPW Forbidden Door that very same weekend, so we’re still feeling pretty good about ourselves as we dive into this SNME card. Need to know upfront who’s coming out on top this Saturday? Let’s get to the picks!
Lyra Valkyria vs. Bayley: Valkyria (93%)
Lyra Valkyria and Bayley look to get their feud kickstarted at Saturday Night’s Major Event, with their partnership souring after the newest Women’s Tag Team title loss on the June 22 episode of “WWE Raw.” Valkyria turned on Bayley, ending their team after never having held the tag titles.
It will not be the primary time they face each other, having first met in singles motion in February 2025 for a spot within the Elimination Chamber. Bayley won that night, thus predicating her attempt at Valkyria’s Women’s Intercontinental Championship two months later, which Valkyria won.
They met over again two months after that as Valkyria was joined by Bayley within the pursuit of the Intercontinental title she lost to Becky Lynch. That led to a double count out, they each failed in a triple threat at Evolution 2025, and it had seemed until recently that their competitive chapter had closed after Valkyria emerged victorious in Two Out of Three Falls in July last yr, the record standing at 2-1-1 to Valkyria.
The expectation of the Wrestling Inc. staff is that the record will now grow to 3-1-1 in the newest chapter, with 93% backing Valkyria to get the win as she enters the match the antagonist for the primary time. In fact that leaves the 7% minority favoring Bayley to get the equalizing victory.
The prevailing belief is that the villain may have a greater time of things between the bells, having put their shortcomings as a tag team all the way down to her distraught former partner. History supports that as a little bit of a reoccurrence in wrestling, and there isn’t any reason to consider it won’t even be the case this weekend.
Written by Max Everett
WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship: Lainey Reid and Fallon Henley (64%)
Brie Bella and Paige are set to defend their WWE Women’s Championships against Fatal Influence’s Lainey Reid and Fallon Henley, with Jacy Jayne at their side, and the tag belts are currently the one championships set to be defended at WWE’s big event at Madison Square Garden. That is a part of the rationale why 64 percent of us consider that Henley and Reid are dethroning Scream Mode.
WWE has puffed up this particular Saturday Night’s Major Event to be an enormous one, because of its location at MSG, and has loaded up the cardboard with big appearances, but only this one championship match. That leads us to consider there’s going to be a title change so as to add to the massive feeling of the show. If Nikki Bella is sweet to go following the ankle injury that kept her out of WrestleMania 42, a return could cost her twin sister and Paige the gold, with possibly with each Bella Twins turning heel on Paige, in attempts to win the gold back themselves as a team.
Fatal Influence has received incredible heel reactions from crowds since their debut on the foremost roster following WrestleMania. An enormous audience at Madison Square Garden looks as if an ideal time to us, a minimum of, to place the tag team titles on them, and Reid and Henley look ready.
While we’re not as sure about this match as others on the cardboard, we’re still pretty confident at 64 percent that Fatal Influence is walking out of Latest York City as the brand new Women’s Tag Team Champions. It’s something fresh going into SummerSlam, and WWE could even move on to having them defend against the Bella Twins, back at full strength, at “The Biggest Party of the Summer.”
Written by Daisy Ruth
No Disqualification Match: Danhausen (100%)
Wrestling Inc. loves that Danhausen. He’s selling merchandise, un-cursing the Knicks, and winning over the WWE universe along with his Conan-O’Brien-Meets-Scooby-Doo antics. With regards to Saturday’s match, not a single soul has voted against him. We just don’t think “The Irish Ace” has it in him.
Danhausen is popular enough to win a daily match, but in a No Disqualification match, he may have untold amounts of dark magic on his side, in addition to the power of FrankenMiz, Kit Wilson, and whatever other allies Danhausen can invent between now and the show. Perhaps JD McDonagh will win and provides Danhausen a taste of adversity for once in his temporary WWE profession, but 100% of the staff doesn’t think it likely. There may be simply an excessive amount of love for Danhausen for this to be anything greater than a comedy showcase of computer graphics and spooky plunder which sees Latest York City’s favorite demon victorious.
Frankly, if WWE were going to start out trying with McDonagh, they’d’ve by now, but his time has come and gone, and we see no reason for Danhausen’s momentum to be hindered, especially by such a nonentity.
Written by Ross Berman
Tag Team Match: CM Punk and Cody Rhodes (71%)
Just two weeks before they face one another at WWE SummerSlam, Cody Rhodes and Undisputed WWE Champion CM Punk will partner as much as tackle GUNTHER and Sami Zayn in a tag team match at Saturday Night’s Major Event. On the surface, one may give a slight advantage to GUNTHER and Zayn on this instance on condition that each are coming off big losses and are likely running on revenge fuel. Those personal motivations is probably not enough to beat the glaring difficulty of working together, nonetheless.
Just weeks ago, Zayn counted GUNTHER’s shoulder to the mat in a fashion much faster than a regular three seconds. Because of this, Rhodes retained the Undisputed WWE Championship over “The Ring General” on “WWE SmackDown.” Minutes later, Zayn detailed GUNTHER’s title aspirations over again by blasting him with a Helluva Kick within the midst of his easy rematch.
Useless to say, GUNTHER and Sami Zayn have issues. Punk and Rhodes, while upcoming opponents at SummerSlam, have maintained their on-screen friendship. The pair even respectfully shook hands when General Manager Nick Aldis made their championship match official for the two-night PLE.
The fact is that Punk and Rhodes have an overwhelmingly higher probability of co-existing at SNME as compared to Zayn and GUNTHER. Furthermore, the sight of either Punk or Rhodes being pinned or submitting right before their title clash would likely hurt their credibility. That is why 71% of the Wrestling Inc. staff are betting on “The Second City Saint” and “The American Nightmare” at Saturday Night’s Major Event.
Written by Ella Jay