Will CM Punk beat Cody Rhodes in SummerSlam's Night 1 main event on Saturday, August 1?
50% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 2 predictions cast.
CM Punk retained the Undisputed WWE Championship over Cody Rhodes in the co-main event of SummerSlam Night 1 on Saturday, August 1, at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The match, the longest on the card at 29 minutes 43 seconds, turned when Rhodes accidentally took out the referee, and a returning Randy Orton — making his first appearance since WrestleMania 42 — blindsided Rhodes with an RKO. Punk capitalized with a GTS for the pinfall.
Orton's surprise return added a new storyline wrinkle heading into the rest of SummerSlam weekend, and the result kept Punk's title reign intact while setting up potential follow-up angles involving Orton and Rhodes. Night 1's official main event, a separate Hell in a Cell match between Brock Lesnar and Oba Femi, closed the show afterward.
The community was evenly split ahead of the match, with 50% predicting a Punk win, reflecting genuine uncertainty given Rhodes' championship aspirations. The finish, decided by outside interference rather than a clean pin, is consistent with WWE's pattern of using multi-person angles in marquee title matches to extend storylines rather than settle them outright.