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

2. End Of The Jade Experiment?

Say what you will, but Saturday felt like the big trial for Jade Cargill.

Jade’s WWE run has been a mixed bag: She has an incredible presence and charisma, and a tremendous look, and while she can impress in the ring at times, she also can look completely lost. At times, she appears to have regressed since her AEW run.

Still, WWE took a chance and crowned her Queen of the Ring, granting her a WWE Women’s Championship match at SummerSlam. Saturday, Cargill fell short against Tiffany Stratton in a seven-minute match that seemed to be going for one of Brock Lesnar’s sprints, where the wrestlers just go for big moves nonstop. No transitions, no headlocks. Just signatures and high-impact offense.

Despite that, the match still came off as clunky and not very well executed. Stratton’s Swanton Bomb looked good, as did Jade catching a handspring back elbow and putting Tiffany down with a backbreaker. But the finish, which saw Cargill trying to hit an avalanche Jaded – only to have it countered into a body scissors – took eons to set up and looked terrible.

In the end, Stratton won, handing Jade her first truly clean singles loss in WWE. If WWE was going to push forward with Cargill as a megastar, this would have been the time to pull the trigger, or at least not have her lose to a single Prettiest Moonsault Ever. Perhaps they’ll try again in Paris, but this was a disappointing match, and it felt more like a sidestep away from Jade than anything else.

Even if they continue the feud, they will need a different approach in the ring.