IWE Night of Champions (2025)
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This article is about the Night of Champions event held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. For the Night of Champions event held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, see Night of Champions (2023).
| Night of Champions (2025) | ||
| Promotional poster featuring Dustin Simpson | ||
| Promotion | IWE | |
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown | |
| Date | June 28, 2025 | |
| City | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |
| Venue | Kingdom Arena | |
| Tagline(s) | The Last time is Now | |
| IWE Network event chronology | ||
| ← Previous Money in the Bank | Next → The Great American Bash | |
| Night of Champions chronology | ||
| ← Previous 2023 | Next → — | |
| IWE in Saudi Arabia chronology | ||
| ← Previous Crown Jewel | Next → Royal Rumble | |
The 2025 Night of Champions, also promoted as Night of Champions: Riyadh, is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American company IWE. It will be the 11th Night of Champions and will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2025, at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and will be held from wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.
This will be the second Night of Champions to take place in Saudi Arabia, after 2023, the 13th event that IWE will hold in Saudi Arabia under a 10-year partnership in support of Saudi Vision 2030, and subsequently the only IWE PPV and livestreaming event in the country in 2025. This edition will feature Dustin Simpson's last Night of Champions appearance, as well as his last pay-per-view and livestreaming event appearance in Saudi Arabia as an in-ring performer due to his retirement from professional wrestling at the end of 2025.
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[edit] Production
[edit] Background
Night of Champions was an annual pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by IWE since 2007. It continued annually until 2015, but was discontinued until it was reinstated in 2023, which was the first to be broadcast via IWE's livestreaming platforms, but an event was not held in 2024. The event is characterized by having championship matches. In early 2018, IWE began a 10-year strategic multiplatform partnership with the Ministry of Sport (formerly General Sports Authority) in support of Saudi Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia's social and economic reform program. The 2023 Night of Champions was the first Night of Champions held in Saudi Arabia, which was in Jeddah, and it was the ninth event under this partnership.
On May 10, 2025, IWE announced that the 11th Night of Champions would return the event to Saudi Arabia in Riyadh and would take place on Saturday, June 28, 2025, at the Kingdom Arena, featuring wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will be the 13th event that IWE will hold in Saudi Arabia, and the only IWE PPV and livestreaming event in the country in 2025 due to 2026 hosting three such events; excluding from early 2020 to mid-2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Saudi Arabia had hosted two events per year since 2018. The June 27 episode of Friday Night SmackDown will also be held in Saudi Arabia.
In addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide and via livestreaming on Peacock in the United States, the event will also be available to livestream on Netflix in most international markets and the IWE Network in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Night of Champions to livestream on Netflix following the IWE Network's merger under the service in January in those areas.
[edit] Storylines
The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.
[edit] Results
| No. | Results | Stipulation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cody Rhodes defeated Kevin Orton by pinfall | King of the Ring tournament final Since Rhodes won, he was crowned "King of the Ring" and earned a match for SmackDown's Undisputed IWE Championship at SummerSlam. | |
| 2 | Rhea Ripley defeated Raquel González by pinfall | Streat Fight | |
| 3 | Sami Zayn defeated Karrion Kross by pinfall (with Scarlett) | Singles match | |
| 4 | Solo Sikoa defeated Jacob Fatu (c) by pinfall | Singles match for the IWE United States Championship | |
| 5 | Jade Cargill defeated Asuka by pinfall | Queen of the Ring tournament final Since Cargill won, she was crowned "Queen of the Ring" and earned a match for SmackDown's IWE Women's Championship at SummerSlam. | |
| 6 | Dustin Simpson (c) defeated CM Punk by pinfall | Singles match for the Undisputed IWE Championship | |
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
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[edit] King of the Ring tournament
[edit] Queen of the Ring tournament
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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| IWE | Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVIII • Royal Rumble • Elimination Chamber: Toronto • WrestleMania 41 • Backlash • Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIX • Worlds Collide • Money in the Bank • Night of Champions • Saturday Night's Main Event XL • Evolution • SummerSlam • Clash in Paris • Crown Jewel • Survivor Series | |||
| NXT | Vengeance Day • Stand & Deliver • Battleground • The Great American Bash | |||
