4 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2025 - Sunday (Results & Review)

4. Save Fatu From This Mess

Cooldown matches exist to bring down the emotions, noise, and energy level of crowds during wrestling shows. It’s virtually impossible to keep an audience at a “10” for a four-hour show, so you throw a short match out there that will take the temperature down a bit while not leaving the crowd comatose.

The steel cage match for the United States Championship likely was not intended to be a cooldown match, but it had all the elements of one. Solo Sikoa and his MFTs have to be one of the most comically bad stables in recent WWE history, up there with Retribution and Zelina Vega’s charges during the pandemic. They’re almost entirely composed of goons who get owned on a regular basis, and Sunday was no different.

Solo and Jacob Fatu had what could be described as a paint-by-numbers WWE cage match, just chugging along with wrestling moves happening and a few tosses into the cage. Then the MFTs arrived, only for Jimmy Uso to show up and take out JC Mateo and Tonga Loa. Talla Tonga would put Uso down, though. Talla managed to handcuff Fatu to the cage (the second consecutive match where a wrestler was cuffed), but Jacob broke free and tried to stop Solo from escaping. One slammed door later, Sikoa fell out of the cage for the win

The match was just as exciting to watch as it was to read that description. It happened, and no one is going to watch it again. They jobbed out Fatu, who then demolished Loa and Mateo inside the cage while Solo and Talla retreated up the ramp. Terrible stuff. They need to get Jacob away from these goons before his aura dissipates completely.