3 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (Results & Review)

3. A Lazy Finish

Dominik Mysterio has been one of the best-booked characters in WWE in 2025, an oasis on a product that varies between disappointing and decent.

Dirty Dom’s recent series involving Penta and Rusev has included some fun, inventive finishes, with the Intercontinental Champion doing anything and everything to escape with his title reign intact.

Saturday’s triple threat, however, hit fans in the face like a hammer. (Okay, that was a bad joke.)

For years, three-person matches in WWE relied on the script of “two men fight in the ring while one sells on the outside for an unusually long time, switching off periodically.” The company seemed to have gotten away from that in a big way this year, producing some truly great triple threat matches.

Saturday’s IC title match fell back on bad habits, with Mysterio, Rusev, and Penta trading off with selling on the outside while the other two wrestled a sequence in the ring. There was one nice spot with Penta springing off Rusev to plant Dom with a Mexican Destroyer, but otherwise, it was a series of decently wrestled one-on-one sequences.

The finish understandably featured the ring bell hammer, which has been Mysterio’s weapon of choice lately. But rather than a creative spot to knock someone out, Dom simply ducked when Penta swung the hammer, with Rusev taking the shot. One frog splash later, and Dominik escaped with the title.

No one was buying a title change here, and perhaps they’ve gotten everything they can get out of using the hammer as a weapon, but this was the weakest result in this series. It’s probably time to get Rusev and Penta away from Dominik for the time being. They’re not gaining anything losing like this repeatedly, and Mysterio could use a new challenger.