Night of Champions Articles - Page 2

After securing wins over Edge, Rey Mysterio, and Bobby Lashley on SmackDown, AJ Styles is one win at Night of Champions away from WWE’s newest and shiniest prize, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Soon, fans will see if the 45-year-old former Mr. TNA can earn singles gold in WWE once more, marking the first time […]

After taking care of business against Karrion Kross on last week’s SmackDown, AJ Styles made the journey from North Carolina to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he will face off against Seth Rollins for the newly crowned WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Discussing the trip on a special WWE vlog, Styles noted that he was tired but […]

Between addressing a live WWE audience one final time in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and flying across the Atlantic to prepare for their match against Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships, Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens sat down for a special interview with Cathy Kelley for The Bump. Discussing Owens’ preferred […]

On the final episode of RAW before Night of Champions, Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens decided to walk out to the center of a ring in front of a sold-out Hershey, Pennsylvania crowd to deliver one final live promo – Friday’s SmackDown is pre-taped – before they defend their titles against Roman Reigns and Solo […]

With his spot on the Night of Champions card officially secured, Mustafa Ali was ready to discuss his forthcoming feud with GUNTHER has just how excited he was to take a shot at the Intercontinental Championship in Saudi Arabia with Byron Saxton on the go-home edition of RAW. … unfortunately, that conversation didn’t happen. No, […]

After a short yet sweet build designed around a post-match beatdown on former 24/7 Champion Dana Brooke, Rhea Ripley has officially found her opponent at Night of Champions, where she will wrestle Natalya for the right to call herself the SmackDown Women’s Champion… even though both women were technically drafted onto RAW at the beginning […]

On Raw Monday night, WWE fans saw Cody Rhodes once again faced with another obstacle on his way to not only Night of Champions but destiny. If facing Brock Lesnar for a second time wasn’t a big enough obstacle, WWE felt the American Nightmare now has to face Lesnar with an “injured” arm at Night […]

After taking an absolute beatdown at the hands of Brock Lesnar in “The Sweetest Place on Earth,” Hershey, Pennsylvania, potentially breaking his arm in the process, Cody Rhodes refused conversations with almost every member of the RAW touring staff, with Adam Pearce getting kicked to the curb on multiple occasions. The one lone exception? Paul […]

Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns – and Dean Ambrose, aka Jon Moxley – will forever be linked within the WWE Universe. Coming together to form The Shield, arguably the most popular trio in wrestling this century right up there with the New Day, all the way back in 2012, Rollins and Reigns have floated in […]

AJ Styles is one of the most accomplished performers on the WWE roster. He’s held championships in almost 20 companies, recorded eight different championship reigns within WWE, and now, with The OC by his side, is looking to become the top dog on the red brand once more, proving to fans that a World Champion […]

Though it’s been a minute since they shared the ring together, when Grayson Waller brought out AJ Styles as the first guest on his The Grayson Waller Effect, it’s like the duo have been squaring off for years, with no love gained since their first segment together on RAW back in 2021. And yet, of […]

After securing a shocking victory over the field in a number one contender’s battle royal to decide on Gunther’s opponent at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia, Mustafa Ali was riding high, celebrating backstage on RAW before making his way over to The Bump on Wednesday to continue his one-man hype train. Sitting down virtually […]

Seth Rollins has been a member of the WWE Universe for over a decade. Initially debuting in 2012 following a successful run on the indies and in Ring of Honor as Tyler Black, Rollins was the first NXT Champion, a member of one of the most important factions of the last decade, and a multi-time […]

After securing a shocking, come-from-behind win on RAW in the Battle Royal to decide on the next challenger for the Intercontinental Championship, Mustafa Ali was riding high, so much so, that he stopped by the backstage area for a WWE Digital Exclusive segment with Byron Saxton to let it all out. “Did you watch it? […]

After making his imposing debut on RAW – okay, technically his second match on RAW if you count the 4th of July in 2022 – Gunther found out who he will be wrestling at Night of Champions and, in an appearance on RAW Talk, he sent a message to Mustafa Ali as to what he […]

After learning about WWE’s game-changing decision to have Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa, not The Usos, challenge for the Undisputed Tag Team Championships, Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens took the ring for the opening segment of RAW to try to talk out what just happened alongside the ruckus crowd of Greensboro fans in attendance. “Greensboro, […]

In officially less than two weeks, Cody Rhodes will be taking the ring opposite Brock Lesnar for a fight against “The Beast Incarnate” at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia. After entering into a program on the RAW after WrestleMania and then getting into a short, bloody affair at Backlash one month later in Puerto […]

After being forced out of action for the first four months of the year due to a late December broken ankle, AJ Styles returned to WWE action in a pretty incredible way on the first SmackDown after the draft rosters went into effect, wrestling two Hall of Famers and “The All Mighty” for a chance […]

After taking an absolute beatdown at the hands of Brock Lesnar during his opening round battle against The Miz and Finn Balor in the WWE World Heavyweight Tournament, Cody Rhodes was approached by Cathy Kelley to see if he had any intentions to accept “The Beast Incarnate’s” challenge to “fight” at Night of Champions in […]

Heading into the first RAW after the 2023 WWE Draft’s new rosters came into play, Seth Rollins more or less had a 1-in-6 chance of representing the Red Brand in the finals of the tournament to decide on the new, inaugural WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Tasked with wrestling two matches against four other Superstars with […]

After securing a bloody-yet-abbreviated win at Backlash over Brock Lesnar, Cody Rhodes was riding high; he was booked for the opening segment of RAW, scheduled to face off with Finn Balor and The Miz for an opening match in the WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament, and looked like a favorite to represent the Red Brand […]

After nearly 400 days as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion, Roman Reigns’ reign is over… at least kind of. That’s right, after teasing a “major announcement” for RAW on social media, Paul “Triple H” Levesque walked down to the ring to thunderous applause from the Chicagoland crowd and proceeded to announce that, after nearly 1,000 […]