WWE Saturday Night’s Foremost Event

Like Homer’s Odysseus, or Dick Van Dyke’s Rob Petrie, WWE returned home on Saturday, bringing Saturday Night’s Foremost Event to Madison Square Garden. The show saw latest tag team champions in the ladies’s division, in addition to a celebration of the NBA Champion Recent York Knicks. You’ll be able to read all about it on the Saturday Night’s Foremost Event 7/18/2026 Results Page, and you possibly can read the staff’s thoughts concerning the wrestling, or lack thereof, over on the Saturday Night’s Foremost Event Hated and Loved column.

So let’s get into the winners, and let’s get into the losers. I never like these to be literal. Winners may be losers, like Roman Reigns, who stood tall at the top of the night in a kinda empty primary event segment, losers may be winners, and innocent bystanders can catch strays. The one rule is there aren’t any rules.

So enough of my introductions, let’s get into the Saturday Night’s Foremost Event Winners and Losers.

I do know I said I do not like these to be so literal, but Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid pinned one WWE Hall of Famer and one other woman who has been practicing her Hall of Fame speech since she returned to the corporate. Sometimes things are exactly the best way they seem, and Fatal Influence were clear winners on Saturday.

As someone who has been accountable for the weekly NXT beat for God-knows-how-long, it’s heartening to see Fatal Influence’s success on the primary roster. The group was a transparent favorite of management and the Performance Center crowd during their time in NXT, but that does not all the time translate on the primary roster. The hard-hitting match with Brie Bella and Paige put any concerns to bed.

The group is heading into SummerSlam because the team to beat in the ladies’s division, likely meaning a confrontation in the long run with Brie Bella and her recovering sister, Nikki. It is a excellent time to be Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid, and hopeful that success will trickle right down to Jacy Jayne in some unspecified time in the future, especially after her substantial run as NXT Women’s Champion.

Stephanie McMahon looked completely lost on Saturday. She was brought out to be a broadcaster in the course of the show’s pre-show, and to also interview King of The Ring Oba Femi, nevertheless it felt like WWE wasn’t concerned with using any variation of her on-screen character, as an alternative using her like they might any broadcaster or interviewer. 

It was flat in a way that I do know for a fact Stephanie McMahon shouldn’t be. There are many criticisms that may be leveled at the previous SmackDown General Manager, but being boring hasn’t exactly been certainly one of them. She may be as outsized as anyone, which made her perfunctory appearance on Saturday all the more serious. If the corporate wants the Stephanie McMahon nostalgia, and all the bags that carries, then they need to not less than let her be the crazed cartoon character we’re used to. I’m not saying she should’ve slapped someone but okay possibly I’m.

WWE has way too many broadcasters to want McMahon to pretend to be a journalist.

Skilled Athletes, especially basketball players, don’t all the time translate to smooth, and even competent, in-ring performers. Dennis Rodman was passable, Karl Malone was okay, but Karl-Anthony Towns has a killer chokeslam.

KAT was the star of the Danhausen Nonsense Match by a rustic mile, and even just a few city blocks. Danhausen and McDonagh’s ill-advised decision to begin the match as an honest-to-God wrestling match kicked things off in dour fashion. The introduction of Minihausens helped, nevertheless it wasn’t until the immense Towns made his way out of the cloning machine that the match kicked into gear. Towns delivered a fantastic chokeslam to McDonagh after which a good prettier one to Dominik Mysterio, through a table.

It was a breath of fresh air in comparison with the woeful exchange between Jalen Brunson and Tyrese Haliburton (more about that later), and can likely continue to exist in clip shows and social media edits for years to return. Where numerous the show struggled to feel special, Karl-Anthony Towns made the third match of a 5 match card feel just like the actual primary event.

Every part concerning the closing segment of Saturday Night’s Foremost Event was try-hard bulls***. It was an empty moment, designed to generate SportsCenter clips. Everyone involved looked worse, especially Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns.

The rivalry between the 2 is just personal enough that it felt very weird to see a chapter of it play out in what was -essentially- an commercial for the Recent York Knicks, and Madison Square Garden; a sort of celebration between the 2 brands associated the closest with “The World’s Most Famous Arena.” I’m almost certain, they needed to get to “Roman Reigns holds the NBA Championship trophy, while Jalen Brunson holds with World Heavyweight Title” and asked ChatGPT to determine the remainder. Tyrese Haliburton was an entire non-entity within the segment, but TKO probably spent a wrestler’s salary to book him and fly him in in any case.

It was only a waste of resources, waste of time, and waste of a primary event segment. It will’ve felt low-rent on a pre-taped “Raw” let alone a live “Saturday Night’s Foremost Event.” Guys like John Cena used to retire on this show and now it’s just being written with “Ad Space Here” within the show-closing spot.