WWE Summerlam 2025, the second largest event of the year of the year, began on Saturday evening at the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
After Summerlam goes out on two nights for the first time, Night 1 was a solid start that ended with a chaotic grade when CM Punk won the World Cup in heavyweight to fall victim to Seth Rollins, which redeemed the money in the bank brick pocket and steel again.
The campaign started on Saturday evening with two Tag team games, with Roman Reigns and Jey Uso Bronson Reed and Bron Breakker defeating during the opening time of the night. The matchup was followed by one of the two titles changes at night when Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss won the day team championships by women by defeating Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez.
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After two solid, but relatively short games in which Sami Zayn Karrion Kross and Tiffany Stratton defeated, her WWE Women championship held against Jade Cargill, was one of the surprises of the night in a competition that many had written off as publicity stunt. In a tag team match against Logan Paul and Drew McINTYRE, Musician Jelly Roll managed to steal the show, take one of the biggest celebrity flies in WWE history and to further increase the expectations of crossover stars who try their hands with professional wrestling. Although Jelly Roll took the pen, he turned out to be wrong as a doubter and showed that he belongs to a WWE ring.
After a 30-minute main event between Gunther and Punk, the World Cup changed in the heavyweight, the biggest surprise of the night when Rollins met music, and he first teased that his knee injury was real. Rollins then threw away his crutches, removed his knee clip and ran into the ring to pay the money in the bank filing pocket on an exhausted punk. Rollins knocked down and stuck his long -time rival to flee with the top championship of “WWE RAW”.
Here are the complete results from Summerlam Night 1:
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Seth Rollins costs the money in the bank file pocket and defeats CM punk to win the World Cup in heavyweight.
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Best place: Rollins throws the crutches to the side
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Analysis: This will certainly be a bit polarizing, since WWE achieved a significant elimination with potentially real news this year. In a week in which WWE withdrew the curtain with the publication of “Unreal” on Netflix, Rollins' cash proves that Kayfabe is alive and good. Regardless of this, it was carried out professionally, even with a certain predictability that began to bubble in the past few weeks. This is preparing the stage for the punk-rollin's “Fight Forever” feud for the rest of 2025 and possibly beyond. Historically speaking, WWE plans backwards from Wrestlemania, and I think there is a very real way to win the Royal Rumble and then get another important moment.
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Cm punk def. Gunther in 30:18 to win the World Cup in heavyweight.
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Best place: Punk's last crime
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Analysis: Punk and Gunther are great individual, I don't think someone who sees wrestling would deny that. This match really had a strong stories and was technically sound, but if we are honest, this was a slog to close the night. Gunther had never really regained the swing or threat level he had before Wrestlemania, and he made the title meaningful here. The consequences of Rollins mean that we will probably see Gunther on RAW on the main event for a while, and they could argue that he needs a change of setting and a journey to smackdown. We know where punk is going and he got a great moment, but ultimately it didn't reach the heights of his wrestlemania 41 game or even his match against John Cena in the early summer.
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Logan Paul and Drew Mcintyre Def. Jelly Roll and Randy Orton in 17:05
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Best place: Paul's splash on Jelly Roll
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Analysis: A big praise to Jelly Roll for taking these massive bumps. I said it above and in our live reporting it was probably the biggest celebrity bondage that we have ever seen. Jelly Roll continued to show that the era of the WWE Celebrity Crossover has completely changed and that these “outsiders” did the work to impress these large phases. In addition, there will be very little change for the pilots of Orton, Mcintyre or Paul, all of which should be on the edge of the main picture for the rest of the year. This was probably the most entertaining match from Night 1.
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Tiffany Stratton Def. Jade Cargill in 7:03 to keep the WWE women's championship.
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Best place: Cargill catch stratton in the air
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Analysis: Both women looked pretty strong in this short but clean match. Although Cargill has lost, she showed that she develops every time she steps through the ropes and has so massive strength that she will always have a handful of “holy you knowledge” moments. Stratton will continue to be integrated into a dominant champion in 2025-and her next challenger may come from Bianca Belair or if the WWE wants to shake part of the best divisions of the triple division “RAW”, one of the triple division divisions of Night 2.
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Sami Zayn Def. Karrion Kross in 8:09.
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Best place: Zayn spikes the steel tube
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Analysis: The way this match was played signaled that we should be ready with the Zayn-Kross fehde. Similar to what we saw on Saturday evening last month, this match could probably have benefited from getting more time for an episode of 'raw' instead of complying with this card. I would have loved to see the Giulia-Zelina Vega Women's United States Championship Match on Friday.
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Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair Def. Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez in 13:35 to win the Women's Tag team.
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Best place: Bliss Saving Flair to Pop Rox
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Analysis: Happiness and flair have so much momentum that this victory should be the jerk that the division of the women's day team needed so urgently. This was a really strong, entertaining match that showed how good this division can be when Starpower and a good story story are involved. With regard to Perez and Rodriguez, their history depends so much on the day of the latest court and the later return of Liv Morgan that a loss does not harm it here. Perez in particular remains the biggest main channel outbreak of 2025.
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Jey Uso and Roman Reigns Def. Bronson Reed and Bron Breakker in 21:05
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Best place: Reigns' and Reeds dives from the ring
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Analysis: So much of what happens next between these four men is directly at Rollins, which is later admitted at night. Breakker and Reed are returned to Rollins' Henchmen, which may be challenged for tag team or mid-card titles to strengthen the faction. With regard to Reigns, he definitely has unfinished business with Rollins and Paul Heyman, so that he can immediately insert as a challenger whenever he wants. There were beats in this match, in which he sacrificed himself to save Uso, which could reign his return to the leadership of a bloodlined faction, or more likely, that he translated Uso by giving him Ula Fala. Uso should be able to work back into the main event on “RAW”, even if it is a bit of a springboard to get a showdown of the Reigns rollins.
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