NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS POST SHOW (Wrestling Soup 6.28.25)

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4.3 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Special thanks to Phil Marks of PWT and Jon Draper of Spitball Media for joining the show.

The WWE Night of Champions 2025, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, delivered a night of significant title changes and tournament conclusions.In the main event, John Cena retained his Undisputed WWE Championship against CM Punk, thanks to interference from Seth Rollins. This sets up Cody Rhodes, who won the King of the Ring by defeating Randy Orton, to challenge Cena at SummerSlam.Solo Sikoa became the new United States Champion, defeating Jacob Fatu with help from Tonga Loa and a debuting Hikuleo. Meanwhile, Jade Cargill claimed the Queen of the Ring crown, earning her a shot at the WWE Women's Championship against Tiffany Stratton at SummerSlam.Other key matches included Rhea Ripley defeating Raquel Rodriguez in a Street Fight and Sami Zayn overcoming Karrion Kross.

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0:00.0	Wrestling suit for a mature audience.
0:05.6	I don't available.
0:10.2	Welcome to the afternoon of Champions Post Show here.
0:15.7	I'm joined along with two fellas here, one you might be a little familiar with.
0:20.6	The other one is a little bit
0:22.4	newer to the Super Universe, but also now he's working, you're working your way up to vet status
0:28.0	brother. All right. So welcome the Illuminous, the fantastic Jonathan Draper. Welcome to the show.
0:35.7	Joe, it's just John. You know.
0:54.9	Well, no, this is, this is how I'm, what I'm going to do is, this is how all the wrestlers now. We're going to just expand their name. Jonathan E. That's how you're serious. That's the AEW method. Did you know that? No, I didn't know that. Yeah. If we call you Jonathan now, it's like you're, there is, You're meant to be serious, dude.
0:56.8	Like, you're not just some fucking guy.
0:54.9	No, Jonathan, because Yeah, if we call you Jonathan now, it's like you're, there is, you're meant to be serious, dude.
0:56.8	Like, you're not just some fucking guy.
1:09.8	No, Jonathan, because I'm an adult now. Is that right? Now that I'm going to. Yeah, yeah. You got to get us. You got to wear a vest. You're going to wear a vest. Yeah, just a vest, though. You can see what I'm wearing right now. I'm just like Gary Busey in Point Break, non-ironically.
1:11.4	I will put the camera on.
1:12.7	I'm not even a little kidding.
1:14.3	Oh, my good.
1:29.2	All right. Well, so, so thank you, John Jonathan. And of course, from pro wrestling times, we have Phil Marks. Phil, fancy seeing you here, buddy. Yeah, buddy. It's not like we just hung out. Oh, am I muted or? No, no. Am I not? Okay.
2:04.7	Sorry. I was going to say, sorry about that big botch, starting to show off with an epic botch. But no, yeah, fancy seeing you here. It's not like we just spent our whole morning or afternoon or lunchtime together brunch, depending where you are in the world. oh yeah good yeah right now right now for what is it? It was 4.30 in the afternoon, Eastern time over here. What are you about? 30 where I'm at. Are you mountain time? Yes, mountain time. Are you a mountain man marks? Your mountain man marks? Was that your rest? I'm a mountain man. Mountain man marks is here. You know, I'll have this story and I'll be able to tell it for the rest of my life where there's like very few times.
2:07.0	You're both married men so you know where I'm coming from here.
2:09.6	Where I was able to.
2:10.9	Go ahead.
2:11.4	Yes.
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