WWE Night Of Champions 2026: Biggest Winners & Losers
Sami Zayn is WWE Champion, Oba Femi and IYO SKY are King and Queen of the ring, after the latest WWE PLE in Saudi Arabia, Night of Champions. If you want to read all about what happened, there's the Night of Champions 6/27/2026 Results Page. The Wrestling Inc. Staff has also broken down what they loved and very much didn't from the show. All that's left is the winners and the losers.
As always, the losers can sometimes be winners, like Gunther, and the winners can sometimes be losers, like IYO SKY. It's more of a vibe thing, than a literal thing. You can keep the conversation going in the comments section.
This summer has basically been WWE playing a game of seeing how they can get out of putting the WWE Title on Gunther. Once again, he walked into a main event situation, and walked out with more grievances that can be turned into a future world title match. No matter who walked out of Night of Champions with the title, it was clear that Gunther is factored into main event plans for many more weeks, maybe even months.
It will only work for so long. WWE will have to pull the trigger eventually, but for now, Gunther has a pretty sweet gig. Cody can continue to hot potato the title with Drew McIntyre and Sami Zayn and whoever else, while Gunther shakes his head and says "couldn't be me."
It's good to have someone like Gunther haunting the edges of the World Title scene. It gives the division some boundaries. Maybe he faces Cody, maybe he faces Sami Zayn, maybe he faces King of the Ring Oba Femi, there's a lot of possible matches that could come from this weird little quirk of his booking, and it ensures that Gunther will have plenty to do on the blue brand.
Liv Morgan has kinda sunk the Women's World Title division. The weariness of her elongated story with Dominik Mysterio is bleeding into the division, and now IYO SKY is set to get sucked into the vortex. No matter what happens, I hav
