WWE SummerSlam 2025 Night 1 Results, Winners And Grades

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WWE SummerSlam 2025 Night 1 emanated from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. On Night 1 of the first-ever two-night SummerSlam, Jade Cargill challenged Tiffany Stratton for the WWE Women's Championship; Roman Reigns and Jey Uso faced Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed; and Jelly Roll made his in-ring debut alongside Randy Orton against Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre.
SummerSlam's main event saw CM Punk challenge Gunther for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. With more questions than answers surrounding Seth Rollins' knee injury, many expect him to show up tonight and cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase. This is exactly what happened.
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Cardi B kicked off the SummerSlam card with a short, but sweet, intro of the card that got fans fired up. She was reading from a teleprompter, but none of her aura or charisma were affected.
Bronson Reed hilariously crowned Paul Heyman with Roman Reigns' Air Jordan Spizikes. Bron calls himself the Tribal Thief and calls Reigns' stolen shoes the 'Shoe-la Fala.'
Bron Breakker sang the Roman Reigns chant to Reigns while grabbing Jey in a hold, and it was every bit as hilarious as it sounds.
Jey Uso is wearing shorts now. He Yeeted and Re-Yeeted as the match began.
Reigns' hot tag ended with Reigns wildly diving to the outside and almost landing on top of his head a la Undertaker at WrestleMania 25. He continued on like nothing happened.
Breakker hit an awesome diving clothesline on Roman Reigns onto the Spanish announce table.
Reigns hit a Superman Punch on the outside followed by a Spear on Breakker through the barricade. Revenge from Raw.
After taking a bullet for Jey Uso, in the form of a Bron Breakker Spear, Jey rallied back by laying out Breakker and Reed. Uso pinned Reed with an Uso Splash. Surprisingly, Reigns did not pursue his Jordans from Reed.
For more details on the SummerSlam 2025 opener, click here.
Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss playfully shoved each other as the budding friends strolled to the ring. Michael Cole noted that nobody has won more SummerSlam matches than Charlotte Flair.
Charlotte and Alexa could not get on the same page as to who would start this match. As a result, they were both jumped by the Judgment Day.
Flair battled back before being cutoff by a Judgment Day double-team, but Bliss came to the rescue and evened the odds. After rallying, Bliss was smothered by Raquel Rodriguez.
Though they followed a hot opener, the women's Tag Team Title opener had very little problem getting MetLife Stadium involved. The crowd was on fire during Charlotte Flair's hot tag. Charlotte's babyface reclamation project continues to succeed.
Bliss accidentally struck Charlotte Flair. Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rod Rodriguez sold being surprised before taking control. Roxanne hit the Pop Rocks on Flair and Bliss broke it up with an awesome snapmare.
After a boot to Raquel, Bliss scored the winning pinfall to win the WWE Women's Tag Team Titles.
As expected, Karrion Kross got another rousing reaction from the Pavlovian 'smart' fans in attendance. Fans did not boo Sami Zayn, however.
Sami Zayn got off to a hot start, with a moonsault off the barricade. As Kross took advantage of the match, there were battling chants of 'let's go Sami/let's go Kross.'
Sami had an ugly landing on the business end of a Saito. After the nearfall, Scarlett gave Kross a steel pipe. Kross' attempt with the pipe backfired as Scarlett distracted the ref.
Zayn lost his mind and attacked Karrion Kross to the point where the referee had to physically restrain him.
Scarlett gave Sami the steel pipe as New Jersey gasped. Zayn considered using the pipe on Kross in front of the referee before emphatically tossing it aside. Kross Rolled up Sami for a nearfall. Zayn won the match with a Helluva Kick.
There were faint 'we want Kross' chants after the match as Michael Cole performed a live tribute to Hulk Hogan at SummerSlam.
Jade Cargill, donned in Jamaican-inspired ring gear, received a nice pop, but Tiffany Stratton's pop was massive.
Fans sang 'Tiffy Time' as Cargill posed. Stratton hit a basement dropkick on Jade followed by a dive to the outside.
Stratton hit a Swanton Bomb, smearing Cargill's makeup on her back.
This was a back-and-forth battle of big athletic moves and it surpassed the Kross-Zayn match by the time it got out of first gear.
Cargill hit a Jaded on Stratton, but Stratton's foot was on the rope as Jade pinned her.
Stratton countered a super Jaded and followed up with a PME for the win.
Jelly Roll led New Jersey in singing the chorus of Randy Orton's theme song. Jelly Roll was introduced as 'a son of a sinner.'
Jelly Roll started the match, standing his ground against Logan Paul with a series of shoulder tackles. Paul tagged in Drew McIntyre to intimidate McIntyre. McIntyre decided against tagging in Randy, but came up short in his brawl with McIntyre.
Logan Paul hit an awesome Frog Splash through a table on Jelly Roll. He was carried out of the match by WWE officials as fans sang 'Jelly Roll!' Jelly assured his wife he was okay before dramatically reentering the match to a huge reaction.
Jelly's late comeback ended with a chokeslam on Paul followed by a Black Roll Slam on McIntyre. Fans went crazy.
Jelly caught a diving Logan Paul in midair and hit a Jelly-to-Belly slam. Orton hit an RKO on McIntyre. Paul discarded Orton and hit a Paul from Grace (Frog Splash) for the win. Great match.
CM Punk wore Fantastic Four inspired gear just in time for the eight-day anniversary of First Steps.
Punk and Gunther chain-wrestled early as fans chanted for CM Punk. Punk was the clear babyface in this match.
After Punk was a step ahead of Gunther early, Gunther struggled to land his first chop. It was a massive strike that sent Punk crashing to the mat. Punk regained control with chain wrestling. Punk blocked another chop and maintained his offense with chops of his own.
Once Gunther got his claws on Punk, he chopped every part of his body as the tides turned. Gunther trapped Punk in an abdominal stretch as fans rallied behind Punk.
Gunther laid it on thick with the trash talk as he had Punk locked in a rear-naked choke. It was similar to Conor McGregor vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229.
After Punk battled back, Gunther countered a high-knee in the corner with a power bomb and it looked absolutely brutal.
Gunther poured it on, but CM Punk once again took advantage of an overconfident Gunther. As Gunther was celebrating on the announce table, Punk pulled his legs from up under him, causing Gunther to bleed.
Punk pounced on Gunther, hitting two GTS' for the win.
Seth Rollins cashed in on CM Punk after shedding his crutches and beating up a worn-down CM Punk. Rollins pinned CM Punk for the win. His electrifying win was the perfect ending to SummerSlam.
For more details about SummerSlam's Night 1 main event, click here.