WWE Saturday Night's Main Event: July 2025

The recent tradition of WWE reintroducing the popular prime time weekend past time of having a 'Saturday Night's Main Event' every couple of months has been a fun change, which has also allowed audiences without Netflix to view some high quality wrestling through YouTube and NBC. The shows have varied from fairly standard matches and segments to genuinely very good television, and this four-match card felt like it would be another good one.

The night's action began with Randy Orton taking on Drew McIntyre in a match that reignited their viscious rivalry which last saw them fight it out over the WWE Championship during the covid era. The match was short but fun, and featured many of both men's greatest hits as they battled it out to the joy of the Atlanta crowd. The involvement of Logan Paul and Jelly Roll was a little goofy, but I can't deny the affect it had on the live audience - they absolutely loved it.

The second match of the night was Solo Sikoa's first defence of his recently won United States Championship against his older brother Jimmy Uso. Considering how recently Solo had won the title, and that he had his entire faction, known as 'MFT' or 'My Family Tree', I was not expecting Jimmy to win his first singles title. Either way, I knew this would be a pretty solid match, and that's certainly what the two men provided. It will come as little surprise to know that the two real life brothers had decent in-ring chemistry. It's probably the best singles match Jimmy has had since he and Jey went their own directions.

In the penultimate spot on the card was the one-on-one grudge match between Seth Rollins and LA Knight. Both men have oodles of charisma and buckets of talent, so I knew this would be a fun one. After an initial flurry of offence, the match got pretty one-sided in favour of Rollins for a while, particularly either side of the commercial break. Things did pick up a lot more after that, which is just as well, but then disaster struck. After a seemingly normal landing after a back-flip, Rollins appeared to legitimately blow his knee out, which caused a prompt and premature end to the match. Hopefully, the injury is not as severe as it appeared to be at the time.

After that shocking and unfortunate moment, it was time for the main event, which featured the World Heavyweight Champion GUNTHER defending his title against the iconic Goldberg, in what was billed as the former WCW legend's retirement bout. I can't deny it was a little emotional seeing Goldberg come out to the ring one last time. I haven't always been his biggest fan, but he has undoubtedly left a significant mark on the wrestling landscape. As for the match itself, it went on much longer than I expected, based on the vast majority of Goldberg's match index, but that isn't a criticism. I enjoyed it a fair bit, in fairness, despite how basic Goldberg's moveset is even after all these years. Regardless, GUNTHER made him look okay, and Goldberg did what so many others have done on their way to retirement and put over the present star on his way out.

Overall, I thought this was an entertaining and eventful night of action, which was unfortunately marred by a serious-looking injury for one of the WWE's biggest and best names. Fingers crossed this wasn't something too long-lasting. As for the rest of the show, I thought this was an okay event. The matches weren't necessarily the best WWE have produced, but they still provided plenty of enjoyment. I'm still not super keen on all the ad breaks on a PLE level card, but I guess that's inevitable when a show is airing on television. The show achieved most of what it was attempting to, with the exception of the injury, so I suppose that's worth pointing out. I liked the event, but it didn't feel as major as some of the other Saturday Night shows the WWE have done.