WWE Summerslam 2025 odds & evaluation

With the wrestling world hit with the lack of the divisive Hulk Hogan, it’s time to maneuver on already. Summerslam is one among WWE’s large 4 exhibits all year long, appearing like a round-up of the occasions after WrestleMania.

This time, it’s the primary Summerslam that’s occurring over two nights. Saturday and Sunday will probably be full of matches, however it’s wanting prefer it may very well be one other unpredictable present. Odds have modified quickly during the last week, and if we’re going off the previous few large exhibits WWE has placed on, it might harbor just a few surprises.

The next odds are pulled from BetOnline and Paddy Energy. They’re topic to vary. This isn’t playing recommendation.

• Tiffany Stratton (champ) – 7/2
• Jade Cargill – 1/6

• Gunther (champ) – 4/11
• CM Punk – 13/8

• Judgement Day (Raquel Rodriguez & Roxanne Perez) (Champs) – 7/4
• Charlotte Aptitude and Alexa Bliss – 1/3

• Randy Orton and Jelly Roll – 1/7
• Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul – 4/1

• Sami Zayn – 2/5
• Karrion Kross – 17/10

• Roman Reigns and Jey Uso – 1/7
• Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed – 10/3

• John Cena (Champ) – 4/7
• Cody Rhodes – 5/4

• Naomi (Champ) – 1/7
• Rhea Ripley – 4/1
• Iyo Sky – 7/1

• Becky Lynch (Champ) – 11/5
• Lyra Valkyria – 3/10

• Solo Sikoa (Champ) – 4/9
• Jacob Fatu – 6/4

• Dominik Mysterio (Champ) – 3/10
• AJ Kinds – 11/5

• The Wyatt Sicks (Champs) – 3/2
• Andrade and Rey Fenix – 13/10
• DIY – 5/1
• Fraxiom – 5/2
• Motor Metropolis Machine Weapons – 10/1
• The Road Income – 7/1

I’m not fully certain the place Summerslam will take WWE, if I’m sincere. Normally, you possibly can gauge the place the story goes. As you possibly can inform from my previous couple of analytical articles on its specific type of wrestling, the Triple H regime is all about guaranteeing nobody is fully certain.

With that mentioned, let’s dig into the primary night time, which is a bit lighter than the second night time. The foremost occasions listed below are the Ladies’s and Heavyweight championship matches.

The good cash is predicting CM Punk will win, and it’s wanting seemingly. Since returning to WWE final 12 months, Punk has been within the limelight as he’s a large draw. Individuals come to see him, and sticking the belt on him throughout a scorching streak may very well be the selection right here.

Punk received the gauntlet match to win his spot within the match, and I might see him occurring to feud additional with the Paul Heyman-represented group. With chief Seth Rollins out of the image, however Heyman nonetheless within the image regularly, it’s a very good group to arrange because the overarching villains going ahead. It’d additionally give Bron Breakker or Bronson Reed one thing to work in direction of whereas Rollins is injured.

It’s unlucky that Jade Cargill is just not notably good within the ring, as a result of she has every thing else. Nonetheless, it’s clear they need to push Cargill to the moon, and Stratton is the sacrificial lamb.

Cargill was moved from the Naomi circle, opening up her as much as much more intriguing choices. It’s simply that Cargill remains to be clearly inexperienced, regardless of being within the enterprise for just a few years. Stratton has been a very good champion, however it usually feels as if she vanishes from the thoughts after she’s off-screen.

Between The Judgement Day’s Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez, and challengers Charlotte Aptitude and Alexa Bliss, the theme right here is friendship. In current weeks, The Judgement Day ladies have confirmed that they’re a wonderful workforce with out Liv Morgan everywhere.

Perez has already been concerned in a profitable defence, and if WWE went with these two, it’d be an fascinating method to go in the event that they preserve them because the champ till Morgan returns. Nonetheless, current episodes that includes the newly put-together Bliss and Aptitude have been fairly common on social media.

Persons are looking for a motive to love Charlotte Aptitude, as her innate skill within the ring is commonly extra appreciated than who she is on display screen. Persons are simply fed up along with her coming in, profitable a belt, and sucking the air out of the room. With the Bliss workforce up, it’s giving her an opportunity to indicate a brand new aspect to her. Not solely as a personality and wrestler, however perhaps as she is behind the scenes on TV.

It’s wanting seemingly that WWE will put their efforts behind Bliss and Aptitude for now, till the inevitable workforce breakup, the place I’d suspect Judgement Day will swoop again in.

We’re again with a star concerned in a wrestling match, and it’s Jelly Roll. The rapper is becoming a member of forces with Randy Orton in one among my most hated varieties of matches. You’re telling me that this non-wrestler goes to have the ability to duke it out with precise wrestlers? I’d suspect it’ll be a Jelly Roll and Orton win, with followers (and myself) fuming as Jelly Roll will get the pin.

In happier information, Roman Reigns is again on our screens and is partnering with cousin Jey Uso to fend off the Heyman group of Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed. This one might go both approach, but when there’s a Samoan loss, it’ll be Jey consuming that pin. Breakker and Reed want to come back out of this match wanting robust, as with out Rollins within the image, it’s sucked the wind out of the momentum that they had.

The Zayn and Kross match is one other 50/50 cut up, no matter the place the good cash is. Commentary and WWE have repeatedly talked about that Zayn hasn’t managed to win any main championships shortly or ever, actually. If Zayn wins right here, I might see him on the quick monitor to doubtlessly stepping into the title scene.

Night time 2 of Summerslam is a bit more thrilling on the cardboard, however does have the prospect to be a bit an excessive amount of in some instances. There are quite a lot of stipulations and match sorts that enable for lots of shenanigans mid-match.

John Cena turned heel (villain) at Elimination Chamber, siding with The Rock and Travis Scott. It’s the primary time he’s been a baddie in WWE, and it’s finally been a little bit of a wash.

The upcoming Summerslam match is Cody Rhodes’ likelihood to retrieve the belt, and for WWE and Cena to do the best factor. That’s to finish this pretty boring heel run and have what restricted time Cena’s obtainable be a extra constructive expertise.

No less than it’s a Road Battle, that means we received’t should see the identical bland match out of Cena and Rhodes as soon as once more. It’s surprisingly simpler to tug off a very good match with gimmicks than it’s to do a straight-up match, contemplating that Cena has obligations in Hollywood that want him in tip-top form.

The good cash believes in Naomi, I consider in Naomi. Her current cash-in of the Cash within the Financial institution contract to win the ladies’s belt was a bit little bit of a shock. Nonetheless, it’d be too quickly to have put all this effort into completely rebranding her as a heel after which whisk the belt away.

There’s additionally the truth that wrestlers like Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky don’t want the belt to be common. Throw them right into a feud, have them really tussle in respectable matches, and so they’ll produce gold. It permits for the title scene on the primary roster ladies’s division to clean up a bit bit, too.

With a stipulation connected that if Lynch wins, Valkryia can’t problem for the belt once more, it’s shenanigans time. That’s why the match is a No Disqualification match, permitting them to elucidate away a possible Valkyria loss on that foundation, slightly than simply her merely dropping clear.

Lynch can be doubtlessly going to be out of the WWE ring once more within the coming months, nevertheless. She not too long ago signed on to do a TV pilot and presumably a full sequence of the brand new present Movers, which might imply she might lose out merely on account of her schedule. It’s not clear when the present would begin capturing, but when it’s not quickly, then locking Valkyria out of the mid-card belt could be an absence of foresight.

Except, after all, the younger star is being moved onto greater and higher issues. Who is aware of? Possibly Bayley will become involved once more and assist her win the match.

Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu are working their United States championship match over as soon as extra. It’s in a metal cage, so anticipate this to be the massive end to the feud. In wrestling, if the metal cage is launched in some capability, it means we’re seeing the top of that specific storyline.

Each Samoans have an honest likelihood of popping out of the cage with the belt, which I believe that Fatu will win right here, overcoming the nefarious Sikoa. Earlier than Sikoa received, Fatu had a much bigger plate of foes to go up towards, and it’d be nice to see that swing again spherical once more.

Numerous comedy vignettes have been aired between AJ Kinds and Dom Mysterio, with Kinds angling for a title match. Nonetheless, Mysterio has at all times had an excuse, and it seems to be like his luck has run out.

Right here, it appears that evidently this match may very well be used as a platform to permit both wrestler to department out a bit. Dom not too long ago appeared at AAA, attacking Dragon Lee and Hijo del Vikingo, which might point out that the newly WWE acquired firm may very well be Mysterio’s new place to torment sooner or later. If he misplaced the Intercontinental belt, he may very well be simply inserted into the title scene within the Mexican firm. If not, then he can get embroiled in a extra worldwide feud.

In the meantime, AJ Kinds did make an look at TNA’s Slammiversary. Kinds was a staple wrestler of TNA till about 2014, when he left to go to Japan. Since 2016, he’s been a WWE man, however with the brand new WWE partnership between the 2, it may very well be Kinds branching out to different corporations with the belt on the road. This could be much like the present TNA World title being held by Trick Williams on WWE’s NXT.

I’ll say it now, if The Wyatt Sicks don’t win right here, then it is perhaps time to scrap the group. The stop-start nature of the successor group to the late Bray Wyatt has been, frankly, a shambles. Accidents, vanishing from TV, and a few egregiously tacky on-line advertising have basically come up quick.

The group in current weeks has regained some momentum, however they should win tonight to solidify the group as something however the worst of the Wyatt shtick. Huge menace, however is all bark, no chew as a result of someway, artistic heads behind the scenes can’t work out learn how to make a spooky villain.

The remainder of the tag groups right here I can’t see strolling away with the belts. Fraxiom are too new and appear to be leaning extra into the “cut up tag workforce feud”.

Motor Metropolis Machine Weapons haven’t actually gotten an opportunity to shine but in WWE, regardless of being fan favorites in different corporations since 2006.

DIY and The Road Income are in a position our bodies within the tag workforce area, however once more, it doesn’t seem to be WWE needs to again them far more than they’re proper now.

Lastly, Rey Fenix and Andrade seem to be they’re put collectively due to the place they arrive from, slightly than the rest. Let me see these two wrestle one another, not workforce up.

Summerslam airs August 2 and three on Peacock within the US and Netflix in every single place else on this planet.