…Jade Cargill
Jade Cargill defeated Asuka in the finals of the WWE 2025 Queen of the Ring at Night of Champions on Saturday at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to go on to challenge for the WWE Women’s Championship at SummerSlam.
Below is an excerpt from Mike Tedesco’s Night of Champions recap of how the title change went down.
Cargill sends Asuka into the ropes and hits a spinning spinebuster. Cargill avalanches her in the corner and connects with a fallaway slam. Cargill kips up, and her knee is magically fine. Cargill superkicks Asuka and goozles her for a chokeslam. 1… 2… Asuka kicks out. Asuka fights out of Jaded and kicks her in the face. Cargill fights back, and they start exchanging right hands. Asuka wipes her out with a strike combo before going to the top rope for a missile dropkick for a two-count. Asuka grabs the arm and sets up for an Asuka Lock. Cargill fights out and goes for Jaded, but Asuka counters into a roll-up for a two-count. Cargill quickly blocks a kick and hits a sit-out powerbomb for a two-count. Asuka quickly takes her down and applies a cross armbreaker. Cargill manages to fight out and hits a pump kick. Asuka gets out of Jaded and applies an Asuka Lock. Cargill rolls through and pins Asuka for a two-count. Asuka kicks her in the head twice before sizing her up. Asuka hits the ropes for an Empress Impact, but Cargill counters into Jaded for the win. Cargill fell over as she tried to sit on Asuka for the pin. Asuka’s shoulder may have come up, but they’re ignoring it.
