WWE Saturday Night's Main Event: May 2025

These 'Saturday Night's Main Event' cards have been a fun addition to the WWE calendar, and nice little throwback to the so-called golden age of wrestling. This event, the second of the year, had a little bit of a random matchcard, but I was excited regardless. In many ways, it felt like it was mainly being used to set-up 'Money In The Bank', but even so, there were some very interesting matches to look forward to.

The night started off with the all-star tag team match, pitting the newly minted heel stable of Seth Rollins and Bron Breakker against the uneasy babyface alliance of CM Punk and Sami Zayn. This match had a classic good versus bad dynamic, which the two teams integrated into the action smoothly. I enjoyed what we actually saw of the match, but, annoyingly, there were two different ad breaks, which interfered a lot. With that said, the end of the match was cool, and provided another fun twist for the WWE and its hottest storyline.

The second match of the evening saw Zelina Vega defend her recently won Women's United States Championship against the former champion Chelsea Green. The match was solid, if not overly exceptional - I liked the back-and-forth between the them. There was one very notable botch, which the crowd definitely didn't like, but the two women recovered from it well and finished strong with a cool finishing move.

This was followed by the most peculiar match on the card, which saw the Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena take on R-Truth in non-title action. The match weird, but undeniably entertaining for all of its absurdity. The match was short and sweet, as expected, but whilst it was very predictable, I can't pretend like it wasn't a fun moment.

The penultimate match on the card saw Damian Priest and Drew McIntyre go head to head inside a steel cage. This was honestly the hardest match for me to call, albeit I expected plenty of physicality either way. That was just what we got, as the two men beat each other about the cage with near-reckless abandon. There were some cool spots throughout the match, particularly one involving the cage - no surprises there. The match finish had a cool piece of homage that I appreciated a lot, although the special commentary from Jessie Ventura was just irritating, in my opinion, at least.

At last it was time for the main event, which saw the appropriately named 'Main Event' Jey Uso defend his World Heavyweight Championship against the controversial YouTuber-turned-wrestler Logan Paul. The match was actually really quite good, and went to show how far both men have come as singles competitors, particularly Uso as a spot-caller. The big spots were placed nicely, and the match built to these moments smoothly. The match ending was wild, and set-up the next two weeks of action excellently. I like the direction that this match went, and where the rivalry appears to be going.

Overall, this was another really solid set of matches from WWE, albeit slightly hampered by the inevitably awkward television advertisements, which were far too frequent and long for my liking. That aside, the action was mostly quite strong, and the show achieved its main aim of selling the next big premium live event in 'Money In The Bank'. This may have been one of the smaller special events that WWE have done, in terms of scale, but it was still well worth watching.