LA Knight will never win a world title in WWE
Some places do power rankings. Here at Cageside, we do a stock report.
In this weekly series, we identify three Superstars (or groups of Superstars) who are on their way up, and three that are moving in the opposite direction. After a busy week that included Money in the Bank 2025, a lot of fortunes were changed.
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With that in mind, let's see whose stock decreased the most this week:
Stock Down #3: LA Knight
The megastar cut a promo on SmackDown talking about how he's already lost two previous Money in the Bank ladder matches, but the third time's a charm. Unfortunately for Knight, he was completely destroyed by Seth Rollins' crew a short while later and then became a three time Money in the Bank loser the very next night in Los Angeles. It appears that LA has reached his ceiling in WWE, which puts him in a pretty good spot overall, but one that will likely never take him to a world championship.
Stock Down #2: Aleister Black
Aleister was also wiped out on SmackDown as part of the Paul Heyman Guys running amok on the blue brand. He was tossed out of the ring like a jabroni after they beat him up, and probably won't get a chance at revenge since they are on different brands. Booking like this contributes to Aleister losing more of that special aura that stars initially have when they debut hot or return after a long time away.
Stock Down #1: War Raiders
Erik and Ivar lost a tag team match on Raw against The Judgment Day's Finn Balor and JD McDonagh, seemingly knocking the former Vikings even further away from world tag team championship gold after they've already failed multiple times to regain the belts from New Day. To make things even worse, Erik's wife Sarah Logan aka Valhalla revealed that WWE is not renewing her contract with the company.
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Now let's see whose stock increased the most this week:
Stock Up #3: Naomi
Naomi hasn't won singles gold in WWE since 2017, but that's probably going to change sometime during the next year because she now has the women's Money in the Bank contract. Naomi's new 'proceed with caution' attitude means she is a good bet to find the perfect time to cash in that contract to win a world title, just like all the women before her have successfully done.
Stock Up #2: Ron Killings / R-Truth
The live fans on Raw and SmackDown chanted 'We Want Truth!' following the news that R-Truth was exiting the company after WWE chose to not renew his contract. WWE listened to the people and gave them what they want this time, because Truth came back to screw over John Cena in the main event of Money in the Bank. He's now officially back in WWE as Ron Killings, and you can even buy his new shirt. How about that?
Stock Up #1: Seth Rollins, Bron Breakker, Bronson Reed, Paul Heyman
Rollins walked into Money in the Bank as the way-too-obvious favorite to win the men's ladder match, and he proved to be correct when nobody was able to stop him from climbing the ladder and securing the briefcase. The Two Bron Power Trip really came through big for Seth this week in terms of kicking ass on Raw, SmackDown, and Money in the Bank, and really gave weight to Seth's threat about holding all the power in WWE coming out of this weekend. It sure looks like Seth's group is the most dominant force in WWE right now, and the scary thing is that they're just getting started.
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