3 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Night Of Champions 2026 (Results & Review)

King and Queen of the Ring crowned, and the unthinkable happens in the main event.

by Scott Carlson
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If you have the memory of a goldfish, you turned off Night of Champions and proclaimed that WWE is officially back.

Saturday’s PLE closed with an excellent main event that saw Sami Zayn finally win the Undisputed WWE Championship in his tenth attempt at a world title. But as great as the match and that moment were, the overall show was limping along as it headed into that main event.

Oba Femi delivered the other truly great moment, simply by virtue of WWE not doing what everyone feared (screwing him over via Brock Lesnar interference) and instead crowning The Ruler as the 2026 King of the Ring and (hopefully) setting him up for a crowning (no pun intended) achievement at SummerSlam.

Beyond those two great moments, Night of Champions was utterly skippable, just a series of sometimes-competent, often forgettable, bland content. It’s the curse of WWE right now, without Danhausen getting involved; most of their matches aren’t bad, but they aren’t getting fans out of their seats or being remembered weeks (or even days) later. It’s content churn that’s immediately forgotten.

Still, if you’re looking for the positives, tune in for the opener and fast-forward to the main event, then call it a day.

Let’s get to it…

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.