{"id":351570,"date":"2026-06-16T04:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=351570"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:52:10","slug":"biggest-winners-and-losers-of-the-week-6-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/biggest-winners-and-losers-of-the-week-6-15-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Winners And Losers Of The Week \u2014 6\/15\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One other week down within the wide world of skilled wrestling, and once more, the Wrestling\u00a0Inc. staff are here to interrupt down some winners and losers!<\/p>\n

It has been an eventful seven days since last Monday, with various wrestlers advancing within the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments in WWE, in addition to the Owen Hart Cup tournaments in AEW. We also saw championships lost and gained across the spectrum of the wrestling industry (for the primary time ever, we’re talking a little bit Latest Japan on this column) and even an unlikely latest champion crowned on the planet of skilled basketball, which is shockingly not only relevant but relevant\u00a0again<\/em>. How do all of these items fit together into one space, and who exactly got here out on top this week \u2014 versus those that finished on the underside?\u00a0Listed here are your WINC winners and losers for the week of 6\/15\/26!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Loser: The Queen of the Ring Tournament<\/h2>\n
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Each the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments have felt lackluster this yr, seemingly only getting used to further other storylines. While the KOTR side of things continues to be guilty of that, how the QOTR tournament is playing out to this point, and where it looks to be going, is just egregious. For that, look no further than the actual fact Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan advanced within the tournament on last week’s edition of “WWE Raw.”<\/p>\n

Morgan defeated Women’s Intercontinental Champion Sol Ruca, Becky Lynch, and Alexa Bliss to maneuver on to face Charlotte Flair within the semi-finals. While many fans thought Morgan’s involvement within the tournament was ridiculous, some thought possibly she would not get past the primary round. Former champion Stephanie Vaquer is seemingly still waiting within the wings to take Morgan out. Nevertheless, we have not had an update on Vaquer’s injury status in a moment. She wasn’t on the European tour, where many expected her to return, and reportedly, your complete reason no one’s even stepped as much as challenge Morgan for the title is because WWE is waiting on Vaquer to get back.<\/p>\n

Sure, Vaquer could show as much as interfere and price Morgan the match against Flair, but because the weeks go on and more Judgment Day backstage segments play out with Morgan blowing off Raquel Rodriguez, who sits on the other side of the bracket and can face IYO SKY on “Raw” Monday night, and Roxanne Perez, it feels an increasing number of just like the Queen of the Ring final will come all the way down to a Judgment Day storyline where Rodriguez and Morgan face-off against each other in the ultimate. It’s WWE booking at its most predictable, which is the precise opposite of what you wish in a tournament.<\/p>\n

In WWE history, the King of the Ring, a minimum of, has been used to determine latest stars, which is something WWE really is not within the business of doing anymore. Perhaps it’s silly to think that the corporate would ever do the identical for the Queen of the Ring side of things. The booking for each tournaments has not been great this yr, from WWE jamming as many stars as possible into four-way matches to start, quite than singles bouts, to most recently, Jey Uso’s victory to advance on “WWE SmackDown.”\u00a0Fans seeking to see someone fresh established as a challenger going into SummerSlam thoroughly might be upset this yr, which makes each tournaments, but specifically the Queen of the Ring tournament, losers.<\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Daisy\u00a0Ruth<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Winner: Zaria<\/h2>\n
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Zaria finally broke her gold duck during “WWE NXT” this past week, dominating over and dethroning Tatum Paxley to turn into Women’s North American Champion.<\/p>\n

It marked the culmination of a journey since joining the brand to fanfare in late 2024, debuting as certainly one of three marquee signings together with Giulia and Stephanie Vaquer. But where they were crowned NXT Women’s Champion inside a number of months, the latter doing in order a double champion with the North American title, Zaria has as a substitute had to attend through several unsuccessful attempts at different titles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zaria and Sol Ruca struck up their ZaRuca partnership during this time, adding the ladies’s tag titles to the list of accolades tried and failed for. Meanwhile, Ruca became a double champion with the Women’s North American and Women’s Speed titles, reigning until an injury forced her out of contention. Zaria even offered to face in and defend the title for her partner, then went on to lose the defense as Blake Monroe became champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This yr has seen the stage in Zaria’s journey where enough became enough, turning on Ruca and beating her on the best way out of the brand, thus crowning Zaria as a brand new top heel. This week saw that journey marked with a milestone, continuing the momentum from defeating Ruca with an incredible performance.<\/p>\n

Written by Max Everett<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Loser: Callum Newman<\/h2>\n
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At any time when someone loses a world title, they’re naturally going to be within the conversation of being included on this weekly column as a loser. Having your spot as the highest guy in an organization taken from you is something no wrestler wants, but for Callum Newman, you get the sense that his loss at NJPW Dominion in Osaka-jo-Hall hits a little bit bit harder within the grand scheme of things.<\/p>\n

Newman dropped the IWGP Heavyweight Championship to Yota Tsuji within the primary event of Latest Japan Pro Wrestling’s second biggest show of the yr, bringing his reign to an end after 71 days and only one successful title defense. On top of that, Newman suffered a dislocated shoulder which is able to require an MRI scan, and if it is a serious injury, he won’t be cleared to wrestle on the upcoming AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door pay-per-view (that is if he’s booked to compete in any respect), or the G1 Climax tournament which starts in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s protected to say that Dominion wasn’t the perfect night of Newman’s profession, but he does have one storyline going that might be advanced without the necessity of a wrestling match \u2014 that story being him leading the United Empire stable while the group’s founder, current AEW star Will Ospreay, is maintaining a tally of his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 as his attitude has taken a turn over the past yr. This can all inevitably result in a match between Newman and Ospreay, most certainly at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 21 in January, but the shortage of any advancement in that story over Dominion weekend is a bit alarming considering what AEW and NJPW have coming up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Forbidden Door would have been the right show to push that narrative in the correct direction. In spite of everything, you desire to get people excited as early as possible for a match that is going down months down the road. Nevertheless, Ospreay is within the finals of the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament against Swerve Strickland, so you do not need Newman costing him that match because that may impact the AEW All In London primary event. You do not need Newman to not be at Forbidden Door in any respect because that may just look bad on AEW considering he’s certainly one of NJPW’s top names straight away, but when he’s injured and never getting involved within the Ospreay match, what’s there to do?<\/p>\n

All of it looks like every thing is going on at the precise unsuitable time for Newman, and while he’s still young at just 23 years of age, it looks like he’s being unnoticed within the cold during a pivotal time within the wrestling calendar.<\/p>\n

Written by Sam Palmer<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Winner: Maya World<\/h2>\n
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AEW star Maya World goes through a particularly tough time personally. She announced the death of her older brother<\/a> only just last Monday, but ahead of “AEW Dynamite,” she was revealed by AEW President Tony Khan to be the substitute for Sareee, who was taken out of the Women’s Owen Hart Foundation tournament by injury.<\/p>\n

Khan revealed World’s addition to the tournament in his social media stream ahead of the show on Wednesday, and acknowledged the death in World’s family, but said she was backstage at “Dynamite.” Khan said that the star desired to be across the locker room, and he was giving her the chance to take Sareee’s place against Skye Blue.<\/p>\n

She would go on to have a superb match against Blue, and in the long run, World was in a position to dodge a Code Blue and rating the upset victory with a roll-up. She went on to chop a particularly emotional promo, which was posted to AEW’s social media<\/a>, where she described waking as much as checking out about her brother’s passing. World said it was her brother who showed her wrestling for the primary time, and confirmed that she desired to be there on Wednesday together with her “second family.” It was a superb promo that basically made you are feeling for her, and in addition made you desire to see her get to Forbidden Door to point out the world what she’s able to.<\/p>\n

World goes on to face ROH Women’s World Champion Athena on this week’s episode of “AEW Collision.” Sadly, it doesn’t seem likely that World will advance to the finals of the Owen, as pitting Athena against the recently-returned Mercedes Mone at Forbidden Door within the tournament final looks like essentially the most obvious booking decision. Nevertheless, Khan could surprise us all, and put World over Athena and proceed her feel-good Cinderella story, though World said in her promo she’s not Cinderella, she’s the “It Girl.”<\/p>\n

Either way, World is a winner this week for going on the market and putting on a particularly brave face to attain the victory as a last-minute substitute for Sareee. She needs to be pleased with herself not only for the work she put in against Blue, but her consistent work in AEW that led to her signing back in December. Working hard and showing up, even in tragedy, earned her the chance she just received within the Owen. Hopefully World and her family are taking time after they can to heal during this trying time, and we’re offering our thoughts and good vibes to them.<\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Daisy Ruth<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Loser: Jimmy Uso<\/h2>\n
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It’s all taking place with the Bloodline and a number of Bloodline-adjacent characters, but there doesn’t appear to be anything for Jimmy Uso in the intervening time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the past few years Jimmy has grown from one half of the longest reigning Tag Team Champions to the Uso that did not make it as a singles star, having been the primary one to officially activate Roman Reigns originally and sporadically framed as someone to challenge the “Tribal Chief.” Actually, when he returned from the injury that saw Jey turn into the “Right Hand Man” after difficult Reigns for the title \u2013 otherwise often called the Bloodline’s origins \u2013 Jimmy told Reigns to his face that he’s no b****. Years of no follow up and a forgotten stint as a singles talent, with a theme song that spoke of standing on his own two feet, and that initial line has been well and truly contradicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, Jey is seeking to add to his World Heavyweight title by winning the King of the Ring, a mission assigned by Reigns to dethrone Cody Rhodes for the WWE Championship. Jacob Fatu has now been forced into Bloodline servitude, but will inevitably take much of the highlight for his rivalry with Reigns and his ongoing tensions with Jey. Besides, he’s Jacob Fatu. Even Solo Sikoa, who has been exiled since attempting to usurp Reigns and now grows Tribal Trees, has been taking among the limelight as Reigns apparently wants him back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jimmy is just … there. When he’s there, he’s either a herald for Reigns or the proverbial good cop when Jey is not feeling very Ucey. It must suck to be one half of arguably the perfect tag team on the planet and unable to be a tag team, while also not getting the space to explore a person role as a part of the most important faction in wrestling.<\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Max Everett<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Winner: Danhausen<\/h2>\n
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Game 3 of the NBA Championship series between the Latest York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs was infamous for the indisputable fact that it was the one game the Knicks lost all series, with many superstitious fans blaming the bad vibes brought by President Donald Trump and the safety measures his visit to Madison Square Garden forced on midtown Manhattan. It was also the one game that WWE clown-demon Danhausen attended, and yet, Danhausen continues to be being celebrated for “un-cursing” the Knicks. It could not be surprising to this author to see Danhausen at Thursday’s victory parade in NYC.<\/p>\n

Hell, at this rate, I’m expecting Mayor Zohran Mamdani to look in full Danhausen-face sooner or later, because the two have turn into twin symbols for the Knicks’ first NBA championship since 1973. WWE is normally content in sending the champions a WWE title belt with the corporate logo, but this time there may be official Knicks x Danhausen merchandise. I could bring up that he’ll likely never should pay for one more meal in Latest York, so long as he’s in makeup, or the indisputable fact that he’s now on the radar of men like Spike Lee and Timothee Chalamet. I’m simply going to indicate that he will not be carrying the stink of the Game 3 loss as much because the President. Danhausen said it himself \u2014 he’s the “King of Latest York,” and in contrast to the outlaw Frank White from the film, he’s got the entire system behind him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WWE put Danhausen ready to be certainly one of the most important winners of the week, especially with much of the roster stuck on the more divisive Freedom 250 event. Very Nice, Very Winner.<\/p>\n

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