WWE SUNDAY Night’s Main Event Recap

Sunday Night's Main Event

It’s another episode of Saturday Night’s Main Event in 2026… on a Sunday! WWE Saturday Sunday Night’s Main Event comes live at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Who is the future of WWE? Well, Oba Femi and Bron Breakker look to settle that argument when they go one-on-one tonight. Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes face off in a WrestleMania rematch and their history speaks for itself. We will see a 6-women tag match with Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss and Tatum Paxley vs. Jade Cargill, B-Fab and Michin. Baron Corbin hosts a 5-minute challenge to Lil Yachty, and if Yachty survives the time then Trick Williams gets a match for the U.S. Title. Atlanta’s own Quavo is also here for a performance. Check in for the live recap of WWE Saturday Sunday Night’s Main Event tonight at 8 PM ET on Peacock. Hit F5 or refresh as often as you like for the latest updates.

We have a bonus match on the pre-show! The pre-show is airing on YouTube as Joe Hendry heads out for the first match. All of The Judgment Day head to the ring, but Dominik is the one who will compete. Michael Cole and Wade Barrett are the commentators for the event. Jason Ayers is the referee assigned to this match.

* Joe Hendry vs. “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio {AAA Mega Champion}
[non-title match]

Mysterio dropkicks Hendry at the bell and starts the attack early on. Hendry clotheslines him, sends him into a corner for a clothesline and stomps a mudhole in him, then brings him out with a hiptoss. Hendry delivers a delayed vertical suplex walking around the ring before dropping him down, and clotheslines him out the ring in front of the rest of Judgment Day. Liv Morgan gets in Hendry’s face, JD McDonagh instigates and eats a European uppercut for him, but when Hendry gets back in the ring Mysterio sends him back out and hits a suicide dive. Dom slams his head on the announce table, throws him into the steel steps, gets back in the ring to distract the ref, JD gets in some cheap shots behind the ref’s back, Dom brings Hendry back into the ring and beats him down. The champ hits a tope atomico like his Uncle Eddie, covers for 2, and elbows him on the collarbone repeatedly.

Hendry fights back, misses a clothesline twice, hits a running back elbow, catches him off a crossbody, delivers a fallaway slam, kips up, spins around, Dom ducks the discus clothesline, hits a jumping neckbreaker, and Hendry kicks out at two. Hendry blocks a tornado DDT, counters with a dead-lift suplex, hits the Hit Single discus clothesline, and covers for a near-fall. Hendry calls for the big ending, Liv Morgan jumps on the apron, Hendry knocks McDonagh off the apron, Dominik sends Hendry into the ropes, hits the 619, goes up top, connects with the FROG SPLASH, and covers for the 1-2-3! WINNER: “DIRTY” DOMINIK MYSTERIO!

Liv Morgan takes the microphone, calls Dominik the greatest Mysterio of all time, then turns her attention to her title defense on Raw tomorrow night. She mocks her opponent Stephanie Vaquer claiming she will defeat her again, says she will walk out as champion again, and calls herself “the greatest Women’s Champion of ALLLLLLLLLLL time.” We continue with the hype of the show for the next six minutes before the top of the hour.

Once it’s 8 PM ET, the show goes live in Atlanta on Peacock, and we get an opening video package highlighting tonight’s matches with narration from Quavo helping hype it up. We see the Superstar Arrivals of Baron Corbin, the six women who will battle later, Oba Femi, and The Vision. Quavo is at the entrance stage with a shopping cart full of money and he performs his new song “Backwards” live for the crowd.

Trick Williams and Lil Yachty hop off the top of a car, Trick wishes him luck, and Yachty heads out to the ring with a posse. If Lil Yachty lasts five minutes against Baron Corbin, then Trick Williams gets another title shot for the United States Championship. Also of note, Lilian Garcia is the ring announcer for this event! Baron Corbin has a microphone, tells him not to let his family, his hometown, and his boy Trick down with disappointment. Yachty strikes him with the microphone!

* 5-Minute Challenge: Lil Yachty vs. Baron Corbin {United States Champion}
[non-title match]

Referee Ryan Tran calls for the bell to start the five-minute timer. Yachty exits the ring to make the time last, but Corbin chases after him, catches him by the leg, yanks him out the ring, and tosses him into the barricade. The crowd starts chanting “Let’s go Yachty! Let’s go Yachty!” Corbin throws him into the barricade again, cleans off the announce table, we see a little bit of blood trickling down Corbin’s ear from the microphojne shot, Yachty’s team pulls their man away, but Corbin attacks them and throws Yachty back at ringside. Yachty has the kendo stick and whacks the champion with his Trick Stick! Corbin recovers, hits one of Yachty’s men with the Deep Six, and plants another one with End of Days! Yachty surprises Corbin with a hurricanrana, a diving crossbody, and covers for 2! We are under two minutes left, Corbin plants him with END OF DAYS, looks at the time with 90 seconds left, mounted punches, and hits another END OF DAYS! Corbin looks at the time with one minute left, pulls a table out from under the ring, sets it up in the center, 30 seconds left, sets him up on the top rope, Yachty blocks a superplex, gives him the LOW BLOW with 10 seonds left, Corbin falls, three two one… TIME EXPIRES! Yachty survives the 5 minutes! WINNER of the Challenge: LIL YACHTY!

Corbin is frustrated, so he PLANTS YACHTY THROUGH THE TABLE WITH A CHOKE SLAM! Lilian Garcia announces that Trick Williams has earned his title match, which takes place RIGHT NOW! “Whoop that Trick! Whoop that Trick!”

* United States Championship: Baron Corbin {C} vs. Trick Williams

Williams doesn’t waste time as he runs to the ring, goes on the attack, slams Corbin’s head on the announce table, and finally checks on Yachty at ringside. Corbin uppercuts Williams, throws Yachty into the timekeeper’s area, Williams leaps on him, throws the champ into the ring, hits a leaping clothesline, gives him a flapjack and kips up. Williams slaps him with the backhand, stomps him down with a “Whoop that Trick” chant, delivers a sit-out death valley driver, and covers for 2. Corbin regains control by tossing Trick onto the apron, and knocking him off sending him crashing into the announce table. Corbin sends him into the steel steps, then into the other steel steps, throws him back into the ring, hits a back elbow, and covers for 1. Corbin elbows him on the chest to wear him down, he smiles as he’s in control now, and puts him in an arm-trap chinlock. Williams gets to his feet, battles out of the hold, Corbin clotheslines him, delivers a belly-to-back suplex slam, and gets a near-fall. Corbin goes back to the arm-trap chinlock, Williams is bleeding from the mouth, fights out, and both men clothesline each other in the middle of the ring.

Both men recover throwing punches while kneeling, they stand and punch to BOOs and YAYs from the crowd, Williams ducks a swing and hits the jumping neckbreaker. Corbin counters the discus kick, catches him for the CHOKE SLAM, covers, and Trick kicks out at 2.5! Williams catches him for the Book End, fires himself up, Corbin side-steps the Trick Kick, plants him with the Deep Six, and covers for the near-fall! Williams side-steps him in a corner, drops him with a bulldog, Corbin sends him into the ringpost shoulder-first, rolls out the ring, grabs his championship off of the pedestal, and Yachty grabs one end of the title to prevent from from using it. Trick hits the discus kick, covers, and gets another near-fall. Corbin grabs the title, hits Trick in the face with it behind the ref’s back while he tends to Yachty, makes the cover, and gets 2.99! Williams escapes the End of Days by landing on his feet, ducks a clothesline, hits the TRICK SHOT, and covers for the three-count!! WINNER, and NEW, UNITED STATES CHAMPION: TRICK WILLIAMS!!

Trick Williams has won back the United States Championship for the second time, still with the white fur on it! Baron Corbin has lost twice in a row tonight. Williams and Yachty celebrate their victory on the announce table with pyro going off on the entrance stage.

We get a video package to hype up the next match. We get a video to promote AAA Triplemanía 34 at the MGM in Las Vegas for night one on Friday, September 11th starting at 10 PM ET, and in Mexico City for night two on Sunday, September 13th starting at 9 PM ET. WWE Wrestlepalooza will be in Perth on Saturday, December 12th.

Paul Heyman is in the ring to promote the next match of who will be the future of WWE, and introduces Bron Breakker first. Breakker gets in Heyman’s face, but eventually shakes his hand. Heyman then introduces Oba Femi next and the crowd is excited. Eddie Orengo is the official assigned to this big match.

* Bron Breakker {World Tag Team Champion} vs. Oba Femi {2026 King of the Ring}

Both men have a staredown, they lock up collar-and-elbow, Oba shoves him backwards, Bron shoves him, Oba shoves him back, they lock up again, and this time Bron shoves him backwards. Breakker hits a shoulder block, Femi hits a shoulder block, neither man budge, Breaker runs the ropes, but Femi clotheslines him, and Breakker exits the ring. Femi goes after him, attacks him at ringside, picks him up, drops his face on the ring apron, slams his head on the apron, Breakker crawls under the ropes, Femi pulls him back out which breaker Orengo’s count, Breakker shoves him into the ringpost, gets on the apron, but Femi SLAPS him hard on the chest from the floor! Femi is in control, the announce table is cleared again, Breakker slams his head on the announce table, then hops onto the apron, and hits a leaping clothesline over the table!

Breakker throws him back into the ring, runs the ropes for his 23-MPH clothesline, chokes him on the middle rope, shoulder thrusts to the midsection, Femi reverses an Irish whip, hits a running uppercut in the corner, Breakker clotheslines him, picks him up, hits the double-knee gutbuster, covers for 2, and puts him in the rear naked choke. Oba gets to his feet, elbows him in the neck to break, Breakker delivers a German suplex, and covers for 2. Bron starts feeling cocky, Oba swats him away, grabs him by the throat, Breakker kicks him in the knee, clotheslines him out the ring, Oba lands on his feet, Bron rams his back into the apron, gets him back into the ring, and puts him in a chinlock. Femi breaks the grip, Breakker with a knee to the spine, pops up on his back, Femi breaks it, they trade punches, Breakker with a knee, Femi with an uppercut, Breakker hits a jumping knee, delivers a German suplex, Oba recovers and clotheslines him!

Oba hits two clotheslines, Irish whip to the corner, snake eyes on the top turnbuckle, and hits the big boot. Femi hits a running European uppercut, a second uppercut, a third uppercut, then a running spinning uppercut. Oba plants him with the Choke Slam, covers, gets a 2-count, picks him up belly-to-back, Breakker punches him to block it, Femi falls out the ring, Breakker heads out the other side, charges at him, but Femi hits a shoulder tackle! Austin Theory shows up, Femi gives Theory the shotput suplex toss into the announce table, and Breakker hits the SPEAR on the floor! Breakker sends him back into the ring, hits another SPEAR, covers, and gets 2.9! Logan Paul shows up with brass knuckles on his hand, but Eddie Orengo immediately EJECTS Paul from ringside, and Maxxine Dupri is on the other side of the ring with another set of brass knuckles – Logan was the decoy. Breakker takes the knux, swings, Femi ducks, gives Breakker the shotput suplex toss, calls for the finish, but BRONSON REED HITS OBA FEMI IN THE BACK WITH A STEEL CHAIR!! WINNER by DQ: OBA FEMI!

Bronson Reed hits Oba Femi with the steel chair over and over, places it on his chest, hits the senton, then goes up top, and hits the TSUNAMI!!! Reed holds up Femi, so Breakker runs the ropes, and hits the SPEAR! Reed goes back up top, hits the TSUNAMI again, goes up again, and hits a third TSUNAMI!!! Several referees and officials come down to stop the madness. Reed holds up Femi again, Breakker runs the ropes for another SPEAR, and Reed goes back up top for ANOTHER TSUNAMI!! Bronson Reed returns after injuring himself with a torn bicep in this very exact arena, and he looks better than ever! The Vision is back in full once again!

We get a commercial for WWE Survivor Series coming on Saturday, November 28th. We see Quavo and T-Pain in the crowd. Backstage, Paul Heyman is watching Reed’s return on a monitor. Cathy Kelley runs up to Heyman to get his comments on what just happened, but before Heyman can respond he answers a phone call and walks off.

* Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss & Tatum Paxley vs. B-Fab, Michin & Jade Cargill

The referee for this match is Daphanie LaShaunn. Tatum wants to start the match, and it’ll be against B-Fab. They lock up, B-Fab mocks her, Tatum smacks her chest, hits a flipping legdrop to the back of the head, B-Fab punches her, and tags out. Tatum fights off B-Fab and Michin, does an arm wringer to a dropkick, and knocks Jade off the apron. Michin tosses her onto the apron, Tatum fights them off, hits a step-up enzuigiri from the floor, Jade attacks her behind the ref’s back, throws her back into the ring, Michin with mounted punches, covers for a 1-count, B-Fab tags in, and they deliver a double suplex. Tatum side-steps her and makes the tag.

Alexa goes on offense, hits a flipping neckbreaker, Irish whip reverses, puts up her boot, B-Fab catches her, Alexa goes for Sister Abigail, B-Fab counters, hits a swinging slam and gets a 2-count. Michin tags in, hits an assisted moonsault, gets 2, and tags out. Jade stomps her down, chokes her with her boot, Michin tags in, punches to the gut and head, B-Fab tags back in, knees to the midsection, knocks Paxley off the apron, prevents the tag, pulls Bliss back, but Alexa counters a sidewalk slam with a headscissors to make the hot tag!

Charlotte hits a diving crossbody to Michin, chops her repeatedly, counters a clothesline with a facebuster into the turnbuckles, fallaway slam, kips up, hits the walk-over clothesline, Michin gets a boot up, Charlotte blocks a hurricanrana, gets a kick to the face, hits the Stratusphere, and covers for 2. Michin with a hotshot, Charlotte with a knee, Michin blocks a suplex, makes the hot, Jade hits Flair with a big boot, picks her up for the Sandstorm swinging powerbomb, and Tatum breaks the count! Charlotte counters Jaded with a victory roll for 2, hits the big boot, catches Michin, hits the fallaway slam, walks over Michin and Cargill, goes up top, hits the diving moonsault, and covers Cargill for a near-fall. B-Fab trips up Bliss, but Charlotte hits Natural Selection, makes the cover, and Michin breaks the count. Charlotte goes for the figure-4, B-Fab grabs her, Tatum grabs B-Fab, she goes for the figure-4, but B-Fab kicks Paxley into Flair, so Jade takes advantage to hit Flair with JADED, and gets the 3-count! WINNERS: B-FAB, MICHIN & JADE CARGILL!

Jade and her Baddies get the big win here. We go to Joe Tessitore and The Miz at the podium and they talk about Bronson Reed’s big return. They talk about Baron Corbin losing the United States Championship, then they preview Raw and the qualifying matches for Money in the Bank. Starting this Friday, WWE will be in Mexico City for SmackDown and then for Raw next Monday. We get a video package to highlight the feud between Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton leading up to tonight’s main event. We go to commercials with one for WWE Money in the Bank on October 10th.

Cody Rhodes head out to the ring first, and he’s fired up ready to fight. Charles Robinson is scheduled to referee this main event. Orton shows up from behind, but Rhodes is ready! Orton slithers back out the ring, but Rhodes goes after him and they fight at ringside! The bell still hasn’t even rung. Rhodes tosses him over the barricade, they fight in the crowd, Cody hits him with a trash can full of garbage, Orton with a thumb to the eye, hits a European uppercut, and hits him with a different trash can also full of trash. Both men trade punches, Cody is on offense, Orton gets him back over the barricade, Rhodes fights back, and Orton reverses an Irish whip into the steel steps. Orton throws him back into the ring, and he spots Brandi Rhodes and Mama Rhodes in the front row.

* Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton

Orton gets in the ring, the bell finally dings, Rhodes ducks a clothesline, hits the Cody Cutter, and locks in the Figure-4 Leglock! Ref Robinson coungters Orton’s shoulders down on the mat, Orton sits up at 2, and reaches the bottom rope for a rope break. Rhodes pulls him through the ropes, Orton blocks the draping DDT, chokes him on the middle rope, and does his trademark pose. Orton catapults Cody’s neck into the bottom rope, stomps on his spine, Rhodes fights back, Orton hits a back elbow, stomps on his hand, suplexes him onto the ropes, and hiptosses him back into the ring. Orton stomps on his hand, then puts him in a chinlock, Cody lands on his feet, hits the drop-down uppercut, and clotheslines him out the ring.

Rhodes goes after him, Orton with a cheap shot, pulls him out the ring after breaking the count, slams his head on the announce table, Rhodes fights him off, throws him back into the ring, Orton with a kick, European uppercut, and does the 10-punch in a corner, but he only gets one punch as Cody pulls him down, and does his own 10-punch! Orton kicks him in the midsection, delivers the back suplex onto the announce table, hits another back suplex, and sends him into the ring. Orton walks over to Brandi, she splashes a drink in his face, he rolls back into the ring, Cody punches him, running forearm smash, floats over, and hits a snap powerslam!

Cody hits the Disaster Kick, jabs at him with the lefts, hits the Bionic Elbow, Orton blocks Cross Rhodes, clotheslines him twice, and delivers the powerslam. Orton pulls him in through the ropes, hits the draping DDT, and calls for noise from the crowd. Rhodes calls for the finish, Rhodes counters the RKO, hits the CROSS RHODES, and covers for 2.5! “This is awesome! This is awesome!” Randy blocks the Cody Cutter, Rhodes counters the RKO with a backslide for 2, Rhodes shoves him, Orton almost hits Charles Robinson, side-steps Cody who runs into Robinson, and hits the RKO but there’s no ref to count! Orton has the look in his eyes, backs up to a corner, Rhodes avoids the Punt Kick, and hits CROSS RHODES! Orton rolls out to the floor, Rhodes hits the suicide dive, and Orton bumps Robinson into the barricade!

Rhodes sends Orton into the ringpost three times, beats him up against the announce table, picks up the steel steps, and whacks Orton in the face with it! Rhodes thinks about the steps he must take, Orton is bloody, Rhodes attacks the open wound with more punches, throws him back into the ring, and hits the SUPER Cody Cutter! Orton struggles up to his feet, Rhodes hits the CROSS RHODES, rolls him over and back up to his feet, hits another CROSS RHODES, picks him back up, and just drops him. Rhodes looks at a bloody Viper struggling to get up on his knees, has a couple of positive and negative thoughts, backs up to a corner thinking of the Punt Kick, and Orton begs him not to strike! Rhodes is sure this is over, referee Eddie Orengo shows up to take over, Rhodes steps in, and Orton gives Rhodes a LOWBLOW including Orengo as well! Orton drops Cody with the RKO, Charles Robinson crawls back into the ring, and Orton covers for the 1-2-3!! WINNER: RANDY ORTON!!!

What a crazy finish! Brandi and Mama Rhodes look on with worry, Cody Rhodes can’t believe he just lost, but Randy Orton sits up with a satisfied look as Saturday Sunday Night’s Main Event comes to a close.