WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event
May 23, 2026
Fort Wayne, Indiana (Allen County War Memorial Coliseum)
Commentary: Michael Cole and Wade Barrett
Results by: Mike Tedesco of Wrestleview.com
“Then. Now. Forever. Together.” The WWE video leads us into the show.
Video: WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event highlights from the past.
We go live into the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum to see a pyrotechnics display.
6-Woman Tag Team Match
WWE Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley, Charlotte Flair, and Alexa Bliss vs. Jade Cargill, B-Fab, and Michin
Referee: Daphnie LaShaunn
It’ll be Rhea Ripley starting against Jade Cargill. Cargill immediately backs up and tags B-Fab in to boos from the crowd. Ripley is not happy. Ripley sidesteps a pump kick and goes for a back suplex. B-Fab lands on her feet, but Ripley soon catches her in a suplex attempt. B-Fab twists out and goes for a roll-up, but Ripley holds the ropes before connecting with a stiff clothesline. Alexa Bliss tags in. Ripley throws B-Fab down before Bliss hits a head-scissor takeover. Michin tags in and mocks Bliss. Bliss punches and knees her in the face before hitting a basement dropkick. Bliss takes Michin down and hits an Insult to Injury for a two-count. Charlotte Flair tags in and lifts Bliss to strike Michin down. Michin quickly boots Flair back, but Flair kicks her in the head. Flair hits a snapmare and applies a head-scissor before flipping Michin over several times. Flair kips up and chops Michin back. Michin ducks a clothesline, but Flair comes back with a cartwheel into a clothesline. B-Fab tags in, but Flair smashes her off the top turnbuckle. Bliss then hits B-Fab with a diving crossbody block. Jade Cargill pulls Bliss out of the ring and kicks her down.
Cargill gets in the ring and prepares to square off against Flair. Cargill knocks Ripley off the apron. Michin, the legal competitor, attacks Flair from behind. B-Fab tags in before Cargill does. Michin and B-Fab send Flair into the ropes for some kicks. Cargill then hits a clothesline. Cargill slams Flair’s head off the top turnbuckle and tags Michin in. Michin picks up a two-count. B-Fab tags in and stomps Flair in the corner. Cargill tags back in and strikes Flair in the face. Cargill whips Flair hard into the corner, taking her down. Cargill taunts Flair while doing some push-ups. Flair soon fights back with a chop, but Cargill cuts her off. Michin tags in and hits a vertical suplex for a two-count. Michin applies a front facelock. The crowd chants, “We want Mami!” Flair fights up and knocks Cargill and B-Fab off the apron. Flair boots Michin back and goes to the top rope. Michin quickly cuts her off and taunts the crowd. Michin hits a super hurricanrana for a near fall. Michin sets up for the end, but Flair counters with a back body drop. B-Fab quickly tags in and stops Flair from making a tag. Flair tries to fight her off, but B-Fab hits a short-arm clothesline. B-Fab knocks Bliss off the apron. B-Fab and Flair hit each other with stereo kicks, knocking each other out.
Ripley and Michin tag in. Ripley dropkicks Cargill off the apron before attacking Michin with a knee to the face. Ripley hits Michin with a pair of clotheslines, followed by a kick to the midsection and a facebuster. Ripley hits a basement dropkick and gets the crowd going. Ripley is put on the apron, but she knocks Michin back and hits a missile dropkick. 1… 2… Michin kicks out. Cargill was INSANELY late on trying to get in there for the breakup. The crowd chants, “This is awesome.” Ripley sets up for a Riptide. Cargill is late getting in again. Ripley attacks Cargill before countering out of Michin’s Eat Defeat. Ripley headbutts her and goes for a Riptide, but Michin gets out. Ripley counters Eat Defeat and goes for an electric chair drop, but Michin counters with a poisonrana for a near fall!
Ripley quickly kicks Michin down and tags Bliss in. Bliss hits a head-scissor into a DDT on Michin for a two-count. B-Fab quickly tags in, but Bliss catches her with a Sister Abigail attempt. B-Fab rolls her up and kicks her in the midsection. B-Fab hits a DDT and covers for a two-count. Michin tags in. B-Fab and Michin go for a double-team DDT, but Bliss counters with a double DDT. Flair tags in to a HUGE ovation. Flair goes to the top rope for a diving crossbody block on Michin and B-Fab. Flair hits Michin with a scary German Suplex and kips up. Flair sets up for a Figure Four Leglock, but Michin kicks her away. Flair nearly hits Ripley. Michin knocks Ripley off the apron. Flair goes for a scorpion kick on Michin, but Michin counters with a Styles Clash. 1… 2… Ripley breaks it up with a running knee. B-Fab attacks Ripley, but Ripley takes her down. Cargill superkicks Ripley down. Bliss comes up and slaps Cargill in the face. Cargill grabs her by the throat, but Flair big boots her out of the ring. Flair and Bliss pose in the ring before B-Fab and Michin take them out.
Every woman is down. Cargill soon tags in, as does Ripley. These two will fight for the title next Sunday at Clash in Italy. Ripley looks intensely at Cargill. They begin trading strikes in the center of the ring before Ripley pushes her off. Ripley avoids a pump kick and headbutts her. Ripley hits Cargill with a Riptide! 1… 2… Michin breaks up the pin. Michin superkicks Flair, and Bliss knocks Michin out. B-Fab rocks Bliss with a bicycle kick. B-Fab sizes Ripley up, but Flair wipes her out with a kick. Flair looks at Ripley, and they go to shake hands, but Ripley stops to superkick Michin. Ripley and Flair look at each other and smile. They hit B-Fab and Michin with chops before doing stereo fallaway slams. Flair and Ripley pose before Bliss joins in. Cargill shoves them all into each other before hitting Ripley with a pump kick. Cargill hits Ripley with Jaded and covers the WWE Women’s Champion for the win.
Winners by Pinfall: Jade Cargill, B-Fab, and Michin
Pre-Show Arrivals
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Brie Bella and Paige are in the building, as are the Irresistible Forces. Sol Ruca and WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch will do battle in a non-title match. The Vision will defend the World Tag Team Championship against The Street Profits. WWE Intercontinental Champion Penta is shown signing autographs earlier today.
Locker Room Segment
Cathy Kelley is backstage with “All Ego” Ethan Page. How determined is he to walk out as the WWE Intercontinental Champion? This isn’t just the biggest night of his career. It’s the biggest night of Cathy Kelley’s career. This is the final interview Page will have without the Intercontinental Championship. This is the biggest night of the Intercontinental Championship’s life. Penta is a hell of a champion, but he’ll be handing him the title in the middle of the ring tonight.
Coming up next, Sol Ruca will battle Becky Lynch in a non-title match.
Video: Becky Lynch vs. Sol Ruca
Backstage Interview
Cathy Kelley is backstage with Sol Ruca. Is she ready for Becky Lynch? Ruca wonders if Lynch is ready. Ruca isn’t taking this match lightly. All it’ll take is one Sol Snatcher, and Lynch will know the next generation is here. She’s not here to share the spotlight. She’s going to snatch it.
Sol Ruca makes her entrance.
Backstage Segment
WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch is walking backstage. This is a big night. She’ll prove why Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report, and soon Fort Wayne will say she’s the best of all time.
Non-Title Match
Sol Ruca vs. WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion “The Man” Becky Lynch
Referee: Jessika Carr
As Becky Lynch finishes her entrance, she throws the Intercontinental Championship in Sol Ruca’s face before punching her down. Referee Jessika Carr, long a thorn in Becky Lynch’s side, admonishes Lynch. Ruca then clotheslines Lynch down.
The bell rings, and Lynch isn’t happy that the match is starting with her on her back. Ruca spins Lynch around and slams her down. Ruca takes Lynch down and hits a springboard corkscrew crossbody block. Ruca flips over Lynch and hits a big kick. Ruca kicks Lynch back and hits a springboard 450 into a clothesline. Lynch immediately rolls out of the ring to recover. Ruca goes to the apron and does a handstand to avoid a strike from Lynch. Ruca kicks her away and hits a springboard moonsault block to the floor!
Ruca gets Lynch in the ring and goes for a Sol Snatcher, but Lynch attacks her and goes for a Manhandle Slam. Ruca throws Lynch off and punches away at her in the corner. Lynch boots Ruca back and goes for a clothesline, but Ruca ducks. Ruca goes for a Sol Snatcher, but Lynch pulls Jessika Carr in the way of it! That Sol Snatcher was completely botched. Ruca isn’t happy. Lilian Garcia announces that Sol Ruca won by disqualification.
Winner by Disqualification: Sol Ruca
A “Becky sucks” chant fires up. Ruca checks on Carr. Lynch gets in the ring and hits Ruca in the back of the head with the title. Lynch hits Ruca with a Manhandle Slam before punching away at her face. Lynch hits Ruca with another Manhandle Slam. Another referee runs down, but Lynch scares him off. Lynch hits Ruca with a third Manhandle Slam before talking major trash to Ruca. Lynch holds up the Women’s Intercontinental Championship and walks off.
Video: WWE Intercontinental Champion Penta says Ethan Page is an arrogant fool. He’ll find out why Penta has cero miedo.
Coming up next, Penta will defend the WWE Intercontinental Championship against “All Ego” Ethan Page.
Video: The history and importance of the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
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-Commercial Break-
Replay: Becky Lynch viciously beat Sol Ruca down after losing the match by disqualification.
Backstage Segment
WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch finds SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis. Aldis informs her that she’ll defend the title against Sol Ruca next Sunday at Clash in Italy.
Backstage Interview
Cathy Kelley is backstage with the Irresistible Forces, Nia Jax and Lash Legend. They’re going to win the titles tonight. They’ll make history by making sure Paige and Brie Bella become history.
Lilian Garcia does the introductions after both competitors are in the ring. She is using the classic hanging microphone, famously used by Howard Finkel in the 1980s.
WWE Intercontinental Championship
“All Ego” Ethan Page vs. Penta (c)
Referee: Eddie Orengo
The crowd is buzzing. Michael Cole mentions that there has been only one title change in the history of Saturday Night’s Main Event: in 1992, when Shawn Michaels defeated The British Bulldog.
They lock up and do some standing switches. Penta elbows out, hits the ropes, and kicks Page in the midsection as he tries to roll. Page sidesteps an avalanche and punches Penta down. Page sends Penta into the ropes, but Penta ducks a clothesline and hits a running hurricanrana. Penta hits a clothesline, followed by a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Penta goes for a springboard move, but Page dropkicks him out of mid-air. Page punches away at Penta before knocking him into the corner. Page sends Penta to the opposite corner and charges, but Penta drops him onto the top turnbuckle. Penta hooks the arm, does a springboard, and takes him down, knocking him out of the ring. Penta goes for a baseball slide, but Page moves. Penta quickly kicks him and backs up. Penta charges, but Page hits a back body drop onto the commentary table.
The referee is counting Penta out, but Page stops the count and sends Penta into the ring post. Page punches away at Penta before sending him into the ring post again. Page gets Penta in the ring and starts working on his injured back. Page drops an elbow for a two-count. Page applies a rear chin lock. Penta fights up, but Page pulls him down. Page hits a basement dropkick for a two-count. Page goes back to the rear chin lock. Penta manages to fight up and chops out. Page rocks him with a right hand and sends him into the ropes, but he lowers his head and eats a kick. Penta kicks him in the hamstring and hits a reverse slingblade. Penta hits Page with a running kick in the corner before hitting a handstand slingshot corner dropkick. Page rolls out of the ring to recover. Penta hits the ropes and hits a tope con hilo!
Penta rolls Page into the ring as the referee counts to nine. Penta gets on the apron, but he’s not in the ring. The referee doesn’t want to ruin the match, so he stops counting. Penta goes for a dive and hits. Penta gets Page on the top rope, but Page punches him down to the apron. Penta charges and hits a head-scissor takeover off the top rope. Penta follows up with a springboard DDT for a two-count. Penta sets up for a Penta Driver, but Page elbows out. Page boots Penta back and hits a kick to the skull. Page hits a powerslam for a two-count.
Page fights Penta and sends him to the corner, but Penta hits a slingshot into a backstabber for a two-count. Penta stands Page up, and they start trading chops. Page rocks Penta with some forearms and hits the ropes, but Penta superkicks him. Penta hits the ropes, but Page superkicks him. They trade kicks before knocking each other out. Penta sizes Page up and kicks him in the face. Page stuns him with a Confidence Breaker for a near fall! Page sets up for an Egoplex, but Penta counters into a Penta Driver! 1… 2… Page kicks out! Penta sets up for a Mexican Destroyer, but Page cuts him off. Page puts Penta on the top rope, but Penta fights him. Penta turns him around, but Page rips at his mask. Page hits an avalanche powerslam! 1… 2… Penta kicks out! Page is in disbelief.
Page hooks Penta’s head and punches away at him. The crowd boos Page as he gets to his feet. Page rips the top turnbuckle pad off, but the referee catches him. The referee goes to put the pad back on as Page takes another one off. Page drives Penta into the exposed turnbuckle and rolls him up for a near fall. Penta sidesteps Page, sending him ribs-first into the exposed turnbuckle. Penta hits a springboard Mexican Destroyer for the win!
Winner by Pinfall and still WWE Intercontinental Champion: Penta
The 23-and-a-half-year no-title-change streak for Saturday Night’s Main Event continues.
Locker Room Interview
Cathy Kelley is backstage with WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Brie Bella and Paige. Bella says they’re going into this match as underdogs. They’ve beaten them before and can do it again. Paige says this was never supposed to happen. Nikki Bella is supposed to be here, but here they are. They’re not supposed to win tonight, but they’re gonna.
The WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship will be defended next.
-Commercial Break-
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Quick Match Results
— Jade Cargill, B-Fab, and Michin def. WWE Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley, Charlotte Flair, and Alexa Bliss in a 6-Woman Tag Team Match
— Sol Ruca def. WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion “The Man” Becky Lynch via DQ in a Non-Title Match
— Penta (c) def. “All Ego” Ethan Page to retain the WWE Intercontinental Championship