This Saturday, the so-called world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, plays host to WWE Saturday Night’s Major Event, a show set to feature tag team matches, grudge matches, curses, and Jalen Brunson. Despite just one title being on the road over the course of the four-match card, the celebs will probably be out in droves, as CM Punk teams up with Cody Rhodes and honorary Recent York Knick Danhausen returns to his newly-adopted home city.
But which match on the cardboard has us ready for some wrestling on a Saturday night, and which makes us want to ascertain out a pre-taped “AEW Collision” as an alternative? Thats what the Wrestling Inc. crew is here to seek out out. What are we overvalued for, and what are we entering into prepared to hate? Here’s WINC’s biggest draw and largest dud for WWE Saturday Night’s Major Event 7/18/26!
Dud: Danhausen vs. JD McDonagh
Danhausen and JD McDonagh will probably be wrestling one-on-one in a No Disqualification match. It can be Danhausen’s third singles match, having previously seen off Kit Wilson and The Miz after a grand total of lower than five minutes of motion. Each times he won those matches with the Curse, the devastating pointing gesture that has the power to explode entire turnbuckles – or, on the very least, create some sparky puffs – while his opponent is stood on them.
Wilson and Miz have since been electrocuted by among the gadgets in Danhausen’s backstage laboratory. In consequence, they’re his loboto-minions. McDonagh was also electrocuted, but he has the ability of the Judgment Day and the voice of Liv Morgan to bring him back to reality, and thus remembers that Danhausen scammed him and Mysterio out of some human monies.
So this can be a culmination of that. No Disqualification so the Judgment Day can get entangled as they so often do even when the principles are in place. Perhaps there will probably be some Mini-Danhausen shenanigans like against Wilson and Miz at Backlash, giving Michael Cole the power to bellow his favorite word he is not purported to say with all of the giddiness of a toddler at Disneyland. And there’ll almost actually be some pointing at turnbuckles and blowing them up – though probably just creating sparky puffs.
That could be a dud, on a card filled with them. A real Saturday Night’s Major Event.
Written by Max Everett
Draw: Cody Rhodes and CM Punk vs. GUNTHER and Sami Zayn
There are many big appearances on Saturday Night’s Major Event, from Danhausen to Jalen Brunson himself, with World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns alongside him. There aren’t any greater matches on the cardboard, nonetheless, than Undisputed WWE Champion CM Punk and Cody Rhodes teaming up against GUNTHER and Sami Zayn within the important event of the show.
The match is a draw as a consequence of just the sheer star power that will probably be housed inside Madison Square Garden to cap off the event. Punk and Rhodes are two of the most important, if not the biggest names in WWE, and so they are also set to go one-on-one for the gold at SummerSlam. If WWE was seeking to sell more tickets to Saturday Night’s Major Event, adding each men to the cardboard was a wise idea.
It is also a draw as a consequence of just how interesting it actually may very well be, despite the fact that the bout has been arrange as a “can they co-exist?” trope of a tag team match. Punk dethroned Zayn to capture the title, taking Rhodes’ place within the match after he was brutalized and brought out backstage by GUNTHER. It’s all messy, which is certain to steer to some hard-hitting in-ring motion. “The Ring General” can be no fan of “The Last Real Good Guy,” so the “can they co-exist?” query is valid for each teams. If GUNTHER is not actually set to bring “WWE SmackDown” General Manager Nick Aldis out of retirement for SummerSlam, that is the proper opportunity for WWE to establish GUNTHER vs. Zayn, if that is the plan.
There are also many fans of the assumption that either Rhodes or Punk is headed into their match on the “Biggest Party of the Summer” as a heel. As of SNME, there’ll only be two weeks until their title bout, so if WWE goes to do a turn, it might make sense to occur on the grand stage at MSG, and the scene is about for it. It could occur either throughout the match, allowing for GUNTHER and Zayn to attain the win, or after, with one man punching the opposite, resulting in a beat down.
While a heel turn for Punk or Rhodes could also be asking for an excessive amount of from WWE, the match remains to be a draw as a consequence of its sheer star power and the very fact it will feature some great, hard-hitting motion from all involved. It is a must-see, if only to see what may occur for all 4 men involved going into SummerSlam.
Written by Daisy Ruth