Saturday Night’s Main Event took place this past Saturday, July 12th from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA. The 4-match card was capped off by an excellent retirement outing by Bill Goldberg as he set his sights on Gunther and his World Heavyweight Championship, but more on that later. The night started off with Randy Orton battling it out with Drew McIntyre, and of course Jelly Roll and Logan Paul were in their respective corners for the match because why not? This was a pretty good back and forth between 2 of WWE’s heavy hitters that saw both competitors pull out plenty of their vintage moves on the way to the finish. Jelly Roll shoved Logan Paul onto his ass after a heated debate between the 2 in the ringside area, causing Drew to get distracted and momentarily focus his attention on Jelly. Just enough time for Randy to unload an RKO outta nowhere for the win. After the match, Logan Paul came into the ring and started beating down Randy immediately after the bell, causing Jelly Roll to come to the aid of his friend and pull Logan off of him by his hair. While Jelly Roll was distracted checking on Orton, Drew McIntyre side swiped him with a Claymore and laid him out. This set up the first revealed match of this year’s Summerslam card which will see Randy Orton & Jelly Roll team up to take on Drew McIntyre & Logan Paul. Not sure who was really asking for that, but there you go. You got it, I guess.
Next, we saw Solo Sikoa accompanied by his MFTs look to defend his United States Championship against his older brother, Jimmy Uso. The craziest tid-bit of information from this match was learning it was Jimmy Uso’s first shot at single’s title gold in a 1-on-1 match in his entire career! Like what?! This dude has been around forever! Further pushing my narrative that Jey is the company’s golden child and Jimmy is the red headed stepchild because you cannot convince me that Jey is just that much better in the ring or on the mic than Jimmy, because he isn’t. Enough of my rant, back to the action. Jimmy was game here and had an answer for almost all the offense that Solo was throwing his way throughout the match, stunning the champ with superkicks and suicide dives in the process. After some back and forth action and a couple hope spots for Jimmy where it looked like he might pick up the win, he was sent to the ringside area where Talla Tonga laid him out with an uppercut and left him as easy pickings for the champ who pinned him for the victory. After the match, the MFTs all started beating down on the fallen Uso, until the Samoan Werewolf Jacob Fatu came to his rescue. Fatu laid out Tama and Tonga rather quickly and shared in a stare down with the massive Talla Tonga before disposing of him over the top rope and hitting them all with a suicide dive in the ringside area to send them running away, but gold still in Solo’s hand.
Next up, ‘The Visionary’ Seth Rollins took on ‘The Megastar’ LA Knight and unfortunately there is a lot more to unpack with this one than just the match, which was good! These 2 were putting on probably the best match of the night up to this point, but then Rollins went down with what seems to be a legitimate injury. Rollins appeared to be turning the clock back to the ‘Architect’ days at points in this match with more springboard moves and flips and that’s what ended up coming back to bite him, as he went for a springboard moonsault onto Knight in which he landed back on his feet he appeared to buckle his right knee (the same leg he previously suffered an ACL injury on) and went down. The match stopped in its tracks and after some moments Rollins said he was good to finish and was quickly dropped with a BFT by Knight and pinned to get it over with quickly. I’m a big Seth Rollins guy, if you know me or read this blog often you probably already know that already, so this sucks for me personally, but this also sucks for anyone who watches and follows WWE on the regular regardless. Rollins has been one of the centerpieces of the entire product in 2025, he has Paul Heyman and the Money in the Bank briefcase and an entire faction around him, and it felt like all the main storylines going on on Raw were going through Rollins and his faction. This seriously will change the landscape of all creative plans within the company for the rest of the year depending on the severity of his injury, so as a fan of WWE and even more so, a fan of Seth Rollins himself, this one stings. Like the rest of us, I’m left anxiously hoping and awaiting the updates to see how serious of an injury this will turn out to be.
Then, it was time for the main event! I had to attempt to shelve my worry and deflated feelings over Rollins for the moment and get hype for my boy Goldberg’s last ride as he took on ‘The Ring General’ Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship in his final match! This was honestly so well done, I don’t think Goldberg or any of us watching could’ve wished for a better ending than what we got here. The build may have been a bit lackluster and shoved randomly into the middle of the year, but once we got to the night, I think this went off near perfection for a Goldberg match and was easily one of the better ones he’s had since like 2017. We got all the vintage Goldberg moments here though, down to his entrance starting in the locker room surrounded by his son and his friends followed up by some of the most badass pyro that anyone in the business has ever had. Then the match itself was highly entertaining and well done as well, probably a lot of credit to Gunther for his ability to sell and carry opponents, but he made Goldberg look good here for his final match and carried him to a near 15-minute contest. That’s like 10 minutes longer than the average Goldberg match was in his prime and this dude is now 58, so that’s impressive in itself! The contest started slow with every move and moment popping the crowd, Goldberg no selling Gunther’s chops was great and very fitting of the character. Goldberg attempted a couple spears on Gunther here before he was finally able to land one, first driving himself through the barricade on the outside of the ring and later nailing referee Charles Robinson with one when it looked like he was closing in on the finish. Little sidebar, but Charles Robinson deserves a damn medal for the bumps he’s been taking lately. The dude is in his 60s and within 1 month he’s been shoved over by Cena while he was in a full sprint and then speared out of his shoes by Goldberg just a few weeks later. Goldberg finally nailed the intended target Gunther with a spear moments later though and even dropped him with a Jackhammer after, but he messed up his already injured knee in the process of doing it (kayfabe injury, unlike Seth’s.) He went for the pin after another referee made their way into the ring, but Gunther kicked out at 2 and a half. As they both made their way back to their feet, Goldberg stumbled and fell back down because of his bum knee and that’s the only window Gunther needed as he locked in a sleeper hold. Goldberg desperately tried to fight out of it and nearly did a time or 2, but to no avail as he eventually passed out and Gunther retained the championship. After the match, Goldberg was given his flowers and cut a little thank you speech to the fans while he was in the ring surrounded by family and friends.
Match ratings: 1-10 scale (.5 applicable)
Randy Orton w/Jelly Roll vs Drew McIntyre w/Logan Paul- 5.5/10
United States Championship match: Solo Sikoa (c) vs Jimmy Uso- 6/10
Seth Rollins vs LA Knight- not rated because it was cut short due to injury
World Heavyweight Championship match: Gunther (c) vs Goldberg- 9/10
Stay tuned! Within the next couple of days, my thoughts and review over Evolution should be up on the page as well! Thank you!
