NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS PREDICTIONS or THE ART OF HEEL TURNS AND HAPPY ENDINGS!(Wrestling Soup 6.26.25)

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4.3 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Wrestling Soup, Mish and Joe delve into their predictions and thoughts for WWE's Night of Champions 2025. They discuss the current state of WWE booking, including the challenges faced by wrestlers like Keith Lee and Solo Sikoa, and the rise of stars like Jacob Fatu and Jade Cargill. The duo also shares their takes on various wrestling locker rooms and their dynamics, as well as humorous anecdotes involving past WWE talents. Additionally, they reflect on Ryback's response to comments made by Kevin Owens and Cody Rhodes, providing a comprehensive look at the wrestling landscape as they gear up for the big event.
00:00 WWE's Quiet Quit: A Decline in Quality
01:41 Injuries Plague the Roster
05:26 The Chad Gable Situation
08:55 King of the Ring Final: Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes
29:04 Queen of the Ring: Asuka vs. Jade Cargill
39:42 Sami Zayn vs. Karrion Kross
42:15 Character Development in WWE
47:48 The Role of Managers and Valets
57:02 Raquel Rodriguez vs. Rhea Ripley
01:02:47 Jacob Fatu vs. Solo Sikoa
01:09:48 John Cena vs. CM Punk
01:16:59 Late Night Pay-Per-View Frustrations
01:18:14 Nostalgia for Past Wrestling Shows
01:19:02 Plans for Future Call-Ins and Post Shows
01:24:45 Ryback's Response to Criticism
01:32:55 Keith Lee's Wrestling Status
01:40:02 Deonna Purrazzo on Locker Room Comradery
01:46:24 Wrapping Up and Future Plans

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0:00.0	You should be thanking us.
0:01.7	Right.
0:02.3	You should be thanking us to be watching Rock Earth because it has not been very good.
0:08.5	Oh, well, yeah, it's, WWE's on vacation.
0:12.4	I think that's what they've quiet quit.
0:15.3	It's very interesting to see.
0:17.2	You know what I mean?
0:18.1	Like it started with the writers.
0:20.7	Like, yeah, right?
0:21.8	Maybe that's like a new thing with TKO where they're like openly, openly quietly being like, well, this is clearly the offseason.
0:30.4	So why don't we just put crap on television constantly?
0:35.3	And nobody will really know, you know what I mean? We'll fit in a
0:38.8	Saudi show. We'll throw out an occasional decent promo with somebody. But other than that,
0:45.1	it's like six hours of programming with like two hours maybe of shit that's somewhat
0:50.5	worth seeing. Well, you know, even the more fucked up is me and you kind of view things differently.
0:56.2	Overall, we just put up the video where we were talking about Sina on Tuesday, you know,
1:02.7	our different thoughts about its promo from Smackdown the prior week.
1:06.6	And it's amazing to me that that was the only thing that really stuck throughout the week.
1:13.0	That all the other storylines that are supposedly going on, the King of the Ring, really has no hype.
1:18.3	No hype.
1:19.3	Because it doesn't even make sense.
1:21.2	So even the premise of Night of Champions, which is what we're going to talk about today, is Sina and Killings really the only storylines going on?
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