WWE reveals SummerSlam Night 1 and Night 2 cards with 12 announced matches

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It is officially SummerSlam week!

The biggest party of the summer is back and will once again be in the two-night format. The first night of action will be held Saturday, August 1, at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota and will be followed by another night of action on Sunday, August 2.

This will be the second consecutive year that SummerSlam will be a two-night PLE. The second of the Big 4 PLEs (WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, Royal Rumble) followed in WrestleMania’s footsteps and will bring a jam-packed weekend of action with 12 matches currently announced between both nights.

SummerSlam Night 1 Card

• CM Punk (C) vs. Cody Rhodes - Undisputed WWE Championship

• Liv Morgan (C) vs. Iyo Sky - Women’s World Championship

• Oba Femi vs. Brock Lesnar - Hell in a Cell

• Gunther vs. Nick Aldis

• The Usos, Jacob Fatu vs. Royce Keys, LA Knight, Solo Sikoa - Six-man tag team match

• Fatal Influence (Jacy Jayne, Fallon Henley, and Lainey Reid) vs. The Bellas, Paige - Six-woman tag team match

Punk-Rhodes makes sense as the main event of the show. Night 1 could open with Femi-Lesnar’s Hell in a Cell match. The duo was the first match of Night 2 at WrestleMania 42, when Lesnar lost to Femi. Lesnar then took off his gloves after the match and appeared to retire.

Morgan vs. Sky will have intrigue because the champion has held her belt for 100 days, and this will be her first televised title defense.

Nick Aldis will make his in-ring WWE debut on Saturday night. Aldis spent eight years wrestling for TNA and then six years for NWA. When he joined WWE in 2023, he did so as the SmackDown General Manager. There have been plenty of teases that he would one day return to the ring, but now he has to do so against Gunther.

Fatal Influence won the tag team championships at Saturday Night’s Main Event, but with this being a six-woman tag match, the belts will not be on the line.

SummerSlam Night 2 Card

• Roman Reigns (C) vs. Seth Rollins - World Heavyweight Championship

• Charlotte Flair vs. Jade Cargill vs. Chelsea Green vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Mystery Opponent - Interim WWE Women’s Championship Ladder Match

• Finn Bálor vs. Sami Zayn - Undisputed WWE No. 1 Contender’s Match

• Trick Williams (C) vs. Baron Corbin - United States Championship

• Penta (C) vs. Chad Gable - Intercontinental Championship

• Danhausen vs. Dominik Mysterio - $100,000 on the line

The women’s ladder match has a lot of intrigue with who the mystery opponent could be. There is plenty of speculation that it could be a wrestler from outside WWE making their debut, or a surprise return. Regardless, the surprise entrant will duke it out with four other women for Rhea Ripley’s vacated title.

Zayn won the WWE Championship at Night of Champions, but held the belt for only nine days. He dropped it to CM Punk, setting up a storyline where he demanded that Adam Pearce put him into the Rhodes-Punk championship match at SummerSlam. Instead, he ended up with a No. 1 Contender’s match against Finn Bálor, who had won a Fatal-Four-Way match to get into the match against Zayn.

Danhausen will take on Dominik Mysterio with $100,000 on the line. Liv Morgan previously attempted to bribe Danhausen with $100,000 in human monies to curse Oba Femi before his match with Mysterio, but Danhausen refused. He then stole the money from the Judgment Day and then cursed the faction. After weeks of back-and-forth, this match will be for the $100,000.

Baron Corbin made his shocking return to the WWE and has his eyes set on Trick Williams’ U.S. title. It will be Corbin’s first match back with the company after he attacked Williams twice, setting up the bout.

Penta and Gable have come full circle. It was a loss to Penta that pushed Gable down the path toward becoming El Grande Americano and developing a respect for lucha libre. Now, Gable (as himself) will take on Penta for the IC title in his hometown of Minneapolis.