WWE SUMMERSLAM RESULTS – NIGHT 2 (8/2): Keller’s report on Reigns vs. Rollins, Penta vs. Gable, Sami vs. Balor, Danhausen vs. Dom, Women’s Ladder match

WWE SUMMERSLAM RESULTS – NIGHT 2
AUGUST 2, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. AT US BANK STADIUM
STREAMING LIVE ON ESPN APP (U.S.) AND NETFLIX (INTERNATIONALLY)
BY WADE KELLER, PWTORCH EDITOR

Commentators: Michael Cole and Wade Barrett

Ring Announcer: Alisha Taylor

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(1) SAMI ZAYN vs. FINN BALOR vs. GUNTHER vs. KEVIN OWENS – Fatal 4-Way for no. 1 contendership for WWE Title

After Balor and Sami made their entrance, Smackdown GM Nick Aldis walked out to cheers. He noted he had been reinstated last night and in his first move, he wanted to “call things down the middle and do what’s best for business,” so he added a wrestler to this match. Out came Gunther. Sami threw a fit. Barrett protested too. He said “mis-management” has once again screwed over Sami. Cole said Balor has just as much of a right to be upset by this decision. Gunther laughed in Sami’s face. Balor looked displeased. Aldis said, “Just one more thing.” Fans cheered. He said he didn’t say it would stop at three. Fans cheered. He said he made it a Fatal 4-Way. After a dramatic pause, Kevin Owens’ music played and he came out. Sami threw an even bigger fit and watched slack-jawed. Cole said Sami looked like he saw a ghost.

KO wore a t-shirt that said “KO: The Return.” (They make those t-shirts fast!) They showed a woman crying in reaction. Cole said the fans have come unglued. Cole talked about KO’s neck surgery and how he didn’t know if he would ever wrestle again. He said he was last in a match 17 months ago, an Unsanctioned Street Fight against Sami. Sami studied KO, trying to get a read on him. They cut to another woman in the crowd crying. The bell rang 9 minutes into the hour.

KO charged at Gunther immediately. Then he went after Balor. He landed cannonballs in opposite corners on Gunther and Balor. Gunther and Balor rolled to ringside. Sami trepidaciously walked over to KO. They hugged. Fans cheered. KO then punched Sami. Sami punched back. KO clothesliend Sami to the mat and landed a senton splash. Barrett said KO looked “completely unstoppable.” KO leaped off the top rope with a cannonball onto a gathering of all three opponents at ringside. Barrett said you’re supposed to ease yourself back into action after an injury. Cole said KO said, “To hell with that.” KO hit (grazed) Gunther with a top rope swanton. Gunther put KO in a sleeper. Sami broke it up as Cole explained the first to score a pin or submission gets the no. 1 contendership.

Barrett wondered how much last night took out of Gunther. Gunther took control against Balor briefly until Balor landed a Sling Blade. Balor dropkicked Sami into Gunther, then leaped off the top rope with Coup de Grace, but Gunther moved.  Gunther powerbombed Balor and then applied a Boston Crab. KO broke it up. KO stomped away aggressively at Gunther in the corner. Gunther caught a charging KO with a boot. KO popped up and clotheslined Gunther. Balor leaped and knocked KO off balance on the top rope. He then set up a superplex, but KO turned it into a top rope Fisherman’s suplex. Sami threw KO out of the ring and made the cover on Balor for a two count. Fans chanted “Sami sucks!” Col ee said Sami should try to shut up his critics by actually winning instead of complaining about being a victim.

Sami lifted his knees on a Swanton. Cole said KO landed on the back of his surgically repaired neck. When the ref backed Sami away, Barrett implored the ref to let Sami finish the job. Gunther cut off Sami’s attempt at a Helluva Kick and applied a sleeper. Balor landed a Coup de Grace on Sami. Gunther (sort of) broke up the cover, but he was late and the ref had to stop his count early. Barrett said that was 2.99 seconds. It was more like 3.11 seconds.

KO gave Balor a stunner a minute later. Then he gave Gunther a stunner. He went for a stunned on Sami, but Sami blocked it and turned it into a Blue Thunder Bomb for a near fall. Sami set up a Helluva Kick. Fans booed. KO caught him with a superkick instead and then hit a stunner for the clean win.

WINNER: Owens in 10:00 to earn a WWE Title match

(Keller’s Analysis: That was a big surprise change in plans. Sami vs. Balor would’ve been a really good match, but the return of KO was a newsworthy and crowd-pleasing addition. It’s not clear what KO did to actually deserve a chance to become no. 1 contender after 17 months away. There’s doing what’s best for business, but if makes a bit of a mockery of getting WWE Title matches on some basis of merit, it comes with a price too. The match was non-stop action.)

(2) TRICK WILLIAMS vs. BARON CORBIN (w/Lil’ Yachty) – US Title match

Cole said this is a different Corbin than last time he was in WWE. He said he left WWE a few years ago to “get a bad taste out of his mouth and reinvent himself and find himself and understand what that missing edge up was to become a massive superstar of caliber here in WWE.” He said he’s a “massive badass” and he’d get into that in a moment. Yachty came out and asked, “Minnesota, what’s the deal?” He introduced Trick.

The bell rang 32 minutes into the hour with Trick going on the attack.