WWE Summerslam 2025 odds & evaluation

With the wrestling world hit with the lack of the divisive Hulk Hogan, it’s time to maneuver on already. Summerslam is one in all WWE’s large 4 exhibits all year long, appearing like a round-up of the occasions after WrestleMania.

This time, it’s the primary Summerslam that’s occurring over two nights. Saturday and Sunday can be filled with matches, nevertheless it’s trying prefer it might be one other unpredictable present. Odds have modified quickly during the last week, and if we’re going off the previous few large exhibits WWE has placed on, it may harbor just a few surprises.

The following odds are pulled from BetOnline and Paddy Power. They’re topic to vary. This will not be playing recommendation.

• Tiffany Stratton (champ) – 7/2
• Jade Cargill – 1/6

• Gunther (champ) – 4/11
• CM Punk – 13/8

• Judgement Day (Raquel Rodriguez & Roxanne Perez) (Champs) – 7/4
• Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss – 1/3

• Randy Orton and Jelly Roll – 1/7
• Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul – 4/1

• Sami Zayn – 2/5
• Karrion Kross – 17/10

• Roman Reigns and Jey Uso – 1/7
• Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed – 10/3

• John Cena (Champ) – 4/7
• Cody Rhodes – 5/4

• Naomi (Champ) – 1/7
• Rhea Ripley – 4/1
• Iyo Sky – 7/1

• Becky Lynch (Champ) – 11/5
• Lyra Valkyria – 3/10

• Solo Sikoa (Champ) – 4/9
• Jacob Fatu – 6/4

• Dominik Mysterio (Champ) – 3/10
• AJ Styles – 11/5

• The Wyatt Sicks (Champs) – 3/2
• Andrade and Rey Fenix – 13/10
• DIY – 5/1
• Fraxiom – 5/2
• Motor City Machine Guns – 10/1
• The Street Profits – 7/1

I’m not completely certain the place Summerslam will take WWE, if I’m sincere. Usually, you possibly can gauge the place the story goes. As you possibly can inform from my previous few analytical articles on its explicit fashion of wrestling, the Triple H regime is all about making certain nobody is completely certain.

With that mentioned, let’s dig into the primary night time, which is somewhat lighter than the second night time. The main occasions listed below are the Women’s and Heavyweight championship matches.

The sensible cash is predicting CM Punk will win, and it’s trying seemingly. Since returning to WWE final yr, Punk has been within the limelight as he’s a large draw. People come to see him, and sticking the belt on him throughout a scorching streak might be the selection right here.

Punk gained the gauntlet match to win his spot within the match, and I may see him occurring to feud additional with the Paul Heyman-represented group. With chief Seth Rollins out of the image, however Heyman nonetheless within the image frequently, it’s a very good group to arrange because the overarching villains going ahead. It’d additionally give Bron Breakker or Bronson Reed one thing to work in the direction of whereas Rollins is injured.

It’s unlucky that Jade Cargill will not be notably good within the ring, as a result of she has the whole lot else. However, it’s clear they need to push Cargill to the moon, and Stratton is the sacrificial lamb.

Cargill was moved from the Naomi circle, opening up her as much as much more intriguing choices. It’s simply that Cargill remains to be clearly inexperienced, regardless of being within the enterprise for just a few years. Stratton has been a very good champion, nevertheless it typically feels as if she vanishes from the thoughts after she’s off-screen.

Between The Judgement Day’s Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez, and challengers Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss, the theme right here is friendship. In latest weeks, The Judgement Day ladies have confirmed that they’re a wonderful group with out Liv Morgan all over.

Perez has already been concerned in a profitable defence, and if WWE went with these two, it’d be an attention-grabbing solution to go in the event that they hold them because the champ till Morgan returns. However, latest episodes that includes the newly put-together Bliss and Flair have been fairly well-liked on social media.

People are looking for a motive to love Charlotte Flair, as her innate means within the ring is usually extra appreciated than who she is on display screen. People are simply fed up together with her coming in, profitable a belt, and sucking the air out of the room. With the Bliss group up, it’s giving her an opportunity to point out a brand new facet to her. Not solely as a personality and wrestler, however possibly as she is behind the scenes on TV.

It’s trying seemingly that WWE will put their efforts behind Bliss and Flair for now, till the inevitable group breakup, the place I’d suspect Judgement Day will swoop again in.

We’re again with a celeb concerned in a wrestling match, and it’s Jelly Roll. The rapper is becoming a member of forces with Randy Orton in one in all my most hated kinds of matches. You’re telling me that this non-wrestler goes to have the ability to duke it out with precise wrestlers? I’d suspect it’ll be a Jelly Roll and Orton win, with followers (and myself) fuming as Jelly Roll will get the pin.

In happier information, Roman Reigns is again on our screens and is partnering with cousin Jey Uso to fend off the Heyman group of Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed. This one may go both means, but when there’s a Samoan loss, it’ll be Jey consuming that pin. Breakker and Reed want to return out of this match trying robust, as with out Rollins within the image, it’s sucked the wind out of the momentum they’d.

The Zayn and Kross match is one other 50/50 break up, no matter the place the sensible cash is. Commentary and WWE have repeatedly talked about that Zayn hasn’t managed to win any main championships shortly or ever, actually. If Zayn wins right here, I may see him on the quick monitor to probably stepping into the title scene.

Night 2 of Summerslam is a bit more thrilling on the cardboard, however does have the possibility to be a bit an excessive amount of in some circumstances. There are a number of stipulations and match varieties that enable for lots of shenanigans mid-match.

John Cena turned heel (villain) at Elimination Chamber, siding with The Rock and Travis Scott. It’s the primary time he’s been a baddie in WWE, and it’s in the end been a little bit of a wash.

The upcoming Summerslam match is Cody Rhodes’ probability to retrieve the belt, and for WWE and Cena to do the best factor. That’s to finish this pretty boring heel run and have what restricted time Cena’s accessible be a extra optimistic expertise.

At least it’s a Street Fight, that means we gained’t should see the identical bland match out of Cena and Rhodes as soon as once more. It’s surprisingly simpler to tug off a very good match with gimmicks than it’s to do a straight-up match, contemplating that Cena has obligations in Hollywood that want him in tip-top form.

The sensible cash believes in Naomi, I consider in Naomi. Her latest cash-in of the Money within the Bank contract to win the ladies’s belt was somewhat little bit of a shock. However, it’d be too quickly to have put all this effort into completely rebranding her as a heel after which whisk the belt away.

There’s additionally the truth that wrestlers like Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky don’t want the belt to be well-liked. Throw them right into a feud, have them really tussle in respectable matches, they usually’ll produce gold. It permits for the title scene on the primary roster ladies’s division to clean up somewhat bit, too.

With a stipulation connected that if Lynch wins, Valkryia can’t problem for the belt once more, it’s shenanigans time. That’s why the match is a No Disqualification match, permitting them to elucidate away a possible Valkyria loss on that foundation, somewhat than simply her merely dropping clear.

Lynch can also be probably going to be out of the WWE ring once more within the coming months, nevertheless. She not too long ago signed on to do a TV pilot and presumably a full sequence of the brand new present Movers, which might imply she may lose out merely resulting from her schedule. It’s not clear when the present would begin taking pictures, but when it’s not quickly, then locking Valkyria out of the mid-card belt could be a scarcity of foresight.

Unless, after all, the younger star is being moved onto larger and higher issues. Who is aware of? Maybe Bayley will become involved once more and assist her win the match.

Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu are working their United States championship match over as soon as extra. It’s in a metal cage, so count on this to be the massive end to the feud. In wrestling, if the metal cage is launched in some capability, it means we’re seeing the top of that specific storyline.

Both Samoans have a good probability of popping out of the cage with the belt, which I believe that Fatu will win right here, overcoming the nefarious Sikoa. Before Sikoa gained, Fatu had an even bigger plate of foes to go up towards, and it’d be nice to see that swing again spherical once more.

Various comedy vignettes have been aired between AJ Styles and Dom Mysterio, with Styles angling for a title match. However, Mysterio has all the time had an excuse, and it appears like his luck has run out.

Here, plainly this match might be used as a platform to permit both wrestler to department out somewhat. Dom not too long ago appeared at AAA, attacking Dragon Lee and Hijo del Vikingo, which may point out that the newly WWE acquired firm might be Mysterio’s new place to torment sooner or later. If he misplaced the Intercontinental belt, he might be simply inserted into the title scene within the Mexican firm. If not, then he can get embroiled in a extra worldwide feud.

Meanwhile, AJ Styles did make an look at TNA’s Slammiversary. Styles was a staple wrestler of TNA till about 2014, when he left to go to Japan. Since 2016, he’s been a WWE man, however with the brand new WWE partnership between the 2, it might be Styles branching out to different firms with the belt on the road. This could be much like the present TNA World title being held by Trick Williams on WWE’s NXT.

I’ll say it now, if The Wyatt Sicks don’t win right here, then it may be time to scrap the group. The stop-start nature of the successor group to the late Bray Wyatt has been, frankly, a shambles. Injuries, vanishing from TV, and a few egregiously tacky on-line advertising and marketing have essentially come up brief.

The group in latest weeks has regained some momentum, however they should win tonight to solidify the group as something however the worst of the Wyatt shtick. Massive menace, however is all bark, no chew as a result of in some way, artistic heads behind the scenes can’t work out the best way to make a spooky villain.

The remainder of the tag groups right here I can’t see strolling away with the belts. Fraxiom are too new and appear to be leaning extra into the “split tag team feud”.

Motor City Machine Guns haven’t actually gotten an opportunity to shine but in WWE, regardless of being fan favorites in different firms since 2006.

DIY and The Street Profits are ready our bodies within the tag group area, however once more, it doesn’t appear to be WWE desires to again them rather more than they’re proper now.

Lastly, Rey Fenix and Andrade appear to be they’re put collectively due to the place they arrive from, somewhat than anything. Let me see these two wrestle one another, not group up.

Summerslam airs August 2 and three on Peacock within the US and Netflix in every single place else on this planet.