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

3. Can This Feud Finally Be Done?

WWE SummerSlam 2025 Karrion Kross Sami Zayn
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If this truly is the end of Karrion Kross’ run in WWE, it’s nice that he got to go out with a singles match at SummerSlam, but otherwise, this was going out with a whimper, not a bang.

Kross battled Sami Zayn in the third match of their series, with Sami ultimately getting the win after about eight minutes of mediocre action. The “high drama” of the match came when Scarlett retrieved the lead pipe, and after Karrion swung and missed with it, gave it to Zayn to use, trying to tempt him to give in to his darker side.

Sami threw the pipe down, kicked out of a rollup, and nailed an Exploder and Helluva Kick to vanquish Kross. And that was that.

You can see what they were trying to accomplish – Kross playing the devil, tempting Sami to take shortcuts to get back in the world title hunt – but as a side quest for Sami, it seemingly accomplished very little. He didn’t really face that big of a trial or crisis of conscience or confidence. He got battered with a lead pipe and was supposed to be out “indefinitely,” and came back in two weeks, got battered again, and still won the feud.

At least it’s over, right?

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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.