Whereas a lot of the eyes of the sports activities world have been on Recreation 7 of the World Collection final night time, for wrestling followers the night was all about Saturday Evening’s Predominant Occasion. On the WWE present, we noticed two large title adjustments, first as Jade Cargill defeated Tiffany Stratton to change into the brand new WWE Ladies’s Champion. Then, within the last match, in a conflict over Seth Rollins’ vacated title, CM Punk beat Jey Uso to assert the World Heavyweight Championship for the second time. After the occasion was over, CM Punk then took a really fascinating picture backstage that may be seen as a shot at his former house of AEW.
CM Punk Posed With Present WWE Champions
Following Saturday Evening’s Predominant Occasion, CM Punk posed for a photograph with Jade Cargill, NXT Champion Ricky Saints, and WWE Champion Cody Rhodes, together with his publish merely saying, “Take a look at us.” What may first seem to be champions in WWE exhibiting off their gold could be checked out as one thing way more once you notice that every one of those wrestlers have been in AEW not too way back, and all 4 of them left or have been fired as a consequence of their unhappiness with the corporate and the way Tony Khan used them.
Is CM Punk taking a jab at Khan and AEW to indicate how completely satisfied and profitable these WWE champions are with out their former employer? It is positive simple to take a look at it that method since Ricky Saints was not a part of Saturday Evening’s Predominant Occasion, and Punk’s picture doesn’t embrace different champions within the firm like Ladies’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer, males’s and girls’s United States Champions Ilja Dragunov and Giulia, or Intercontinental Champion Dominik Mysterio. These 4, in spite of everything, have been by no means employed by AEW.
If CM Punk was aiming to take a refined shot at All Elite Wrestling, it is a disgrace that NXT’s two North American Champions, Ethan Web page and Blake Monroe, weren’t there as properly, since each of them additionally left AEW solely to shortly discover success in WWE.
WWE’s High Stars Are Former AEW Expertise
WWE reveals lots of disrespect to AEW, with Triple and TKO both refusing to say the corporate or overtly mocking them, whereas additionally counter programming them at each flip in an try and destroy the competitors. That makes WWE appear to be a petty bully, however the way in which they’re pushing former AEW stars reveals that they respect the corporate’s expertise.
Cody Rhodes was being booed by the AEW fanbase, however in WWE he is the face of the corporate. Jade Cargill might by no means rise previous the TBS Championship in AEW, however in WWE, though it took too lengthy, she’s the highest champion on SmackDown. AEW did not see a lot in Rick Saints and Ethan Web page, and now they’ve each been NXT Champions and are regarded as future primary occasion stars on the primary roster. Blake Monroe is the one one who had main championship success in AEW as Mariah Might, though that wasn’t sufficient to maintain her completely satisfied. Just a few years in the past, followers puzzled if AEW would take over WWE. In 2025, they’ve, simply not in the way in which anybody thought.
