{"id":340269,"date":"2026-05-25T06:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T01:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=340269"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T01:25:19","slug":"wwe-snme-5-23-2026-biggest-winners-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/wwe-snme-5-23-2026-biggest-winners-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE SNME – 5\/23\/2026: Biggest Winners & Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night was the forty fourth edition of “WWE Saturday Night’s Most important Event.” If you should know what happened, there’s a complete WWE SNME 5\/23\/2026 results page to read, in addition to 3 Things We Hated and three We Loved from the show.<\/p>\n

Now, it is time to break down the winners and the losers from Saturday’s big show. This can not be a literal accounting of those things, as -again- there’s a complete results page for that. As an alternative, we’ll be taking a more holistic approach. Winners could be losers, losers could be winners, and other people who didn’t even appear can catch as many strays as I would like to fireside off.<\/p>\n

There have been literal winners, like Jade Cargill, and figurative winners, just like the very concept of “Saturday Night’s Most important Event.” But enough of my introduction, let’s get into the nitty and the gritty.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Winner: Saturday Night’s Most important Event<\/h2>\n
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“Saturday Night’s Most important Event,” historically, has been a dogass show. It’s some middling bulls*** that Vince McMahon put together to get WWE within the “Saturday Night Live” slot when “SNL” wasn’t exactly “Must See TV.” The matches were short. The finishes were normally DQs, count-outs, and even No Contests, in hopes of boosting PPV buys and live event ticket sales. It was essentially a glorified infomercial for WWE. Then it got brought back in 2000s and was once more, a cavalcade of DQs, count-outs, and other narrative half-assery.<\/p>\n

While I do not think the fashionable run of SNME has been the best run of wrestling shows ever, it has absolutely been one of the best shows within the history of the event. It is a low bar but WWE is doing cartwheels over that bad boy. The one DQ of the night made complete sense, even when it was a bit frustrating.<\/p>\n

Even without major events like the ultimate matches of Goldberg and John Cena, SNME remains to be punching well above its weight. These are, quite simply, one of the best these shows have ever been, and there isn’t any amount of nostalgia that can persuade me otherwise.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Losers: The Street Profits<\/h2>\n
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Irrespective of what number of reports flow into about WWE’s desire to rehabilitate the tag team division, I simply refuse to imagine it until I see it. Logan Paul and Austin Theory are tag champs on one end, and on the opposite R-Truth and Damian Priest are killing time with the titles. Meanwhile, guys like Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins are leaping over the ringposts \u2013almost literally jumping through hoops\u2013 to make these acts look good.<\/p>\n

The Street Profits got punked out on Saturday, plain and straightforward, and it is a shame. Ford and Dawkins are probably probably the most gifted tag teams WWE has on its roster, and it appears like they will spend their days being enhancement talent to the celebs (and Austin Theory).<\/p>\n

Look, ultimately Montez Ford is a winner in life. He’s having a toddler with Bianca Belair and each seem pretty firmly entrenched in WWE, or at the very least as entrenched as anyone could be within the Private Equity\/TKO days. Somewhere down the road, hopefully The Profits’s will get their due, and lead the newly rehabilitated tag team division to greatness, but again, I’ll imagine it once I see it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Winner: Jade Cargill<\/h2>\n
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Jade Cargill may need lost at WrestleMania, but she was put right back into contention with Rhea Ripley on Saturday. Many individuals doubted Cargill, Michin, and B-Fab’s ability to beat the superteam of Ripley, Alexa Bliss, and Charlotte Flair, and Cargill proved all of the critics unsuitable, pinning Rhea Ripley in the middle of the ring.<\/p>\n

I truthfully do not like to make a “winner” as literal as this, but pinning Rhea Ripley isn’t any small feat, and it shows just how much faith WWE has within the Jade Cargill Project that they took over from AEW. It has never been a secret that Cargill was pushed into the highlight too soon, and has been grinding her way through learning the ins-and-outs of the business, and Saturday proved that the labor is paying off. Between her showcase match at WrestleMania, and her win tonight, 2026 is shaping as much as be a excellent yr for Cargill.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Loser: Austin Theory<\/h2>\n
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The more that Bron Breakker becomes a star, the more that Logan Paul becomes a reasonably seamless member of the WWE roster, the more glaring it’s that they’ve to seek out a option to make Austin Theory work. This entry is something of a mirror to the last one, because like Jade Cargill, WWE seems intent on not giving up on the Austin Theory Project, and at this point it is perhaps holding him back.<\/p>\n

Theory was treated as something of a gifted wunderkind when he joined WWE in 2019, and ended up stuck in limbo between Speaking Out, and the general de-emphasis on the Black & Gold NXT brand. Theory never quite got his feet under him, and at this point it appears like it stunted his growth a bit. You’d never guess that this Justin Credible-esque third man was once poised to be Evil John Cena, even beating the WWE legend at WrestleMania.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He’s a solid hand, and on this economy I might never advocate for releases or anything of the like, but I used to be stuck in the course of the major event, wondering how Theory could shake off the bad mojo that has stuck with him for much of his WWE profession.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Possibly a guest stint in TNA? I feel like he looks very TNA now. It could work. Does he speak Spanish? Can he be an Americano? Again, I’m just spitballing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n

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