IWE Night of Champions (2026)

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This article is about the 2026 Night of Champions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. For the 2025 Night of Champions in Riyadh and also promoted as "Night of Champions: Riyadh", see Night of Champions (2025). For the 2023 Night of Champions in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, see Night of Champions (2023).

Night of Champions
Promotional poster featuring Promotional poster featuring Rhea Ripley, Cody Rhodes, Liv Morgan, and Trick Williams
Promotion	IWE
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown
Date	June 27, 2026
City	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Venue	Kingdom Arena
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The 2026 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 12th Night of Champions and will take place on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the second consecutive year, and will be held for wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. Night of Champions is usually characterised by featuring championship matches, though this has not been the case since its revival in 2023.

This will be the 15th major event IWE will hold in Saudi Arabia as part of its 10-year partnership in support of Saudi Vision 2030, as well as the first Night of Champions to livestream on the ESPN streaming service in the United States. The event will host the finals of both the 25th King of the Ring and fourth Queen of the Ring tournaments.

Contents 1 Production 1.1 Background 1.2 Storylines 2 Matches 2.1 Tournament brackets 2.1.1 King of the Ring 2.1.2 Queen of the Ring 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Production

[edit] Background

Night of Champions is a professional wrestling event produced by the American company IWE, established in 2007. It was held annually, airing via pay-per-view (PPV) as well as livestreaming beginning in 2014, but was discontinued after the 2015 event until it was reinstated in 2023, although 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 March 17, 2026, POST Wrestling reported that Night of Champions was internally scheduled for Saturday, June 27 in Saudi Arabia. The event's status was initially subject to speculation due to the 2026 Iranian strikes on Saudi Arabia; notably, Formula 1 had cancelled the 2026 Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix due to the strikes. However, on April 23, WWE officially confirmed that the event would proceed as planned on June 27 at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This marks the second consecutive year the venue will host the event and the 15th event under the Saudi Arabian partnership.

In addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide, Night of Champions will be available to livestream on ESPN's direct-to-consumer streaming service in the United States, Netflix in most international markets, SuperSport in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Abema in Japan. This marks the first Night of Champions to livestream on ESPN in the United States.

[edit] Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results will be predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines will be produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

[edit] Matches

No.	Matches*	Stipulation
1	Oba Femi vs. TBD	King of the Ring tournament final The winner will be crowned "King of the Ring" and will earn a world championship match at SummerSlam.
2	Iyo Sky vs. TBD	Queen of the Ring tournament final The winner will be crowned "Queen of the Ring" and will earn a world championship match at SummerSlam.
3	Trick Williams (c) vs. Carmelo Hayes or Ricky Saints	Singles match for the IWE United States Championship
4	Bron Breakker vs. Seth Rollins	Steel Cage match
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match *Card subject to change

[edit] Tournament brackets

[edit] King of the Ring

[edit] Queen of the Ring

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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