WWE SummerSlam Saturday live results: CM Punk vs. Cody Rhodes
WWE SummerSlam kicks off tonight.
Six matches are scheduled for the first night of the two-night event.
CM Punk will defend the WWE Championship against Cody Rhodes. Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar will square off inside Hell in a Cell.
Liv Morgan will put the Women’s World Championship on the line against 2026 Queen of the Ring winner Iyo Sky. Nick Aldis will wrestle his first WWE match as he goes up against Gunther.
LA Knight, Solo Sikoa, and Royce Keys will team up to take on Jacob Fatu and The Usos. In a six-woman tag team match, The Bella Twins and Paige will face Fatal Influence.
The scheduled matches are listed below:
- WWE Championship: CM Punk (c) vs. Cody Rhodes
- Hell in a Cell match: Oba Femi vs. Brock Lesnar
- Women’s World Championship: Liv Morgan (c) vs. Iyo Sky
- Nick Aldis vs. Gunther
- LA Knight, Solo Sikoa & Royce Keys vs. Jacob Fatu & The Usos
- The Bella Twins & Paige vs. Fatal Influence
Our live coverage kicks off at 6 p.m. Eastern.
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Live! From Minneapolis, Minnesota. SKOL~!, or something.
— Vaughn Evelyn sang “God Bless America” to kick off the show.
Michael Cole & Wade Barrett were on commentary.
Iyo Sky v. Liv Morgan for the WWE Women’s World Championship
Liv Morgan wore gear to the ring that was voted on by fans through a poll on the Wingstop app. Morgan is undefeated at SummerSlam according to Michael Cole.
The commentators also made note that this was Morgan’s first title defense since winning the championship at WrestleMania.
Sky stomped Morgan in the corner and did hit Morgan with a double knee into the chest. The fight went out of the ring, and Sky floored Morgan with a forearm. Sky tried to set up a move off the ring barricade, but Morgan tripped her up. Back in the ring, Morgan leveled Sky with a shotgun dropkick.
Morgan stomped and kicked away at Sky to take control. Morgan gave Sky the Three Amigos, then followed up with an enziguri. Morgan backed Sky in the corner for a running knee. Sky came back with a cazadora and a double stomp to the gut, and both women were down.
Sky took the offense, snapping Morgan’s arm against the top rope and following up with a missile dropkick from the top. Sky followed up with a meteora in the corner. Morgan tried to retreat to the apron, but Sky hit a sunset flip powerbomb to the floor.
Back in the ring, Sky went to the top for her moonsault. But Roxanne Perez came out to distract the referee so new Women’s Intercontinental Champion Raquel Rodriguez could send Sky crashing to the mat with a chokeslam. Sky regrouped and sent Morgan over the top rope with a backdrop. Sky then took out Perez and Rodriguez with a moonsault from the top to the floor.
Morgan caught Sky with a rana as she stepped through the ropes. Morgan went to the top, but Sky caught her with a shotei. Sky then sent Morgan crashing to the mat with a Spanish Fly for a near fall.
Morgan and Sky exchanged “Boo!/Yay!” punches, with Morgan actually winning the exchange. But Sky came back with a double-underhook face buster, then followed that up with a doulbe-underhook into a backbreaker. Morgan went for the Oblivion, but Sky countered with a version of Cross Rhodes. Sky then hit the Oblivion on Liv for a near fall.
Sky bounced to the top and went for the moonsault, but Morgan got out of the way. Morgan came off the middle rope with a Codebreaker and got another near fall. Morgan went for Oblivion again, but Sky ducked and Morgan landed on the apron. Sky slipped through the ropes and grabbed Morgan to give her a German suplex on the apron. Sky hit a meteora on Morgan against the ring post, injuring her own knee in the process.
Back in the ring, Sky went for another moonsault, but Morgan got out of the way. Morgan went for the Oblivion again, but Sky flipped through it. But, Morgan anticipated that and hit a Codebreaker, then caught Sky on the rebound with the Oblivion, and finally got the pinfall.
The finishing sequence was amazing.
Match Result: Liv Morgan retained the Women’s World Championship by pinning Iyo Sky (13:35)
— Mark Henry, X-Pac, Dan Spivey, and “Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart were all shown in the crowd.
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