The King and Queen of the Ring finals headline WWE Night of Champions on Saturday, June 27 in Riyadh, with Oba Femi facing Jey Uso for the crown and IYO SKY meeting Liv Morgan for the tiara. Both winners earn a world championship match at SummerSlam, and a rule change this year lets each choose which title to chase.
How the Finalists Got Here
The brackets opened with first-round fatal four-ways, then narrowed to one-on-one semifinals before the finals in Riyadh.
Oba Femi reached the men’s final by beating Dominik Mysterio in the semifinals, then spent the following weeks promising to take the crown. Jey Uso advanced on the other side by getting past Je’Von Evans on SmackDown to lock in his spot.
On the women’s side, IYO SKY won her first-round four-way over Roxanne Perez, Giulia, and Lash Legend, then beat Raquel Rodriguez in the semifinals. Liv Morgan went through Becky Lynch, Alexa Bliss, and Chelsea Green in the opening round before beating Charlotte Flair in the semifinals, a match Flair entered at a disadvantage following a pre-match attack.
Why This Year’s Tournament Is Different
For the first two Queen of the Ring tournaments, the winner faced the world champion of their own brand. This year, both King and Queen of the Ring winners get to pick which world title they want to challenge for at SummerSlam.
That single rule change is the most interesting part of the whole tournament. It also created the strangest wrinkle on the card: Liv Morgan, the reigning Women’s World Champion, entered the Queen of the Ring anyway, saying she wants to win the WWE Women’s Championship too and become a double champion.
The SummerSlam Hypotheticals
Here’s where the finals point. With the choice-of-title rule in play, the men’s bracket has the cleaner set of outcomes.
If Oba Femi Wins the Crown
Femi’s most marketable target is the Undisputed WWE Championship. Cody Rhodes defends that title against Gunther and Sami Zayn in the same building on the same night, so whoever walks out of Riyadh as champion becomes Femi’s likely SummerSlam opponent. A Femi vs. Rhodes program would pit the company’s top babyface champion against a rising heel monster, the exact dynamic WWE has built Femi’s promos around.
If Rhodes loses the triple threat, the math shifts to Femi vs. the new champion, which is part of why the order of these two matches on the card matters.
If Jey Uso Wins the Crown
Jey choosing the Undisputed WWE Championship sets up a babyface-versus-babyface main event against Rhodes, a match with a built-in story given their shared history near the top of the card. Alternatively, Jey could point at the World Heavyweight Championship picture for a different SummerSlam direction. Either way, a crown win hands him another marquee summer run.
The Women’s Side Is Tangled by Design
The women’s hypotheticals don’t map as cleanly, and that’s because of who’s in the final. There is no women’s world title match at Night of Champions. The two women’s title bouts in Riyadh are both United States Championship matches: Tiffany Stratton defends the Women’s United States Championship against Jade Cargill, and that belt is not the prize a Queen of the Ring winner would target.
So the SummerSlam read runs through the two women’s world champions instead. If IYO SKY wins the tournament, her cleanest path is challenging WWE Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley, the SmackDown-brand title, at SummerSlam. SKY could also point at Morgan’s Women’s World Championship, which would turn the Night of Champions final into a direct SummerSlam rematch hook.
If Liv Morgan wins, the scenario gets unusual. Morgan already holds the Women’s World Championship, so a tournament win would let her challenge Ripley for the WWE Women’s Championship and chase the double-champion status she’s been talking about. That’s the outcome WWE has openly teased, and it’s the reason a reigning champion was booked into the bracket in the first place.
What to Watch in Riyadh
The order of the title match and the King of the Ring final is the detail to track, since the men’s tournament winner’s SummerSlam opponent depends on who’s holding the Undisputed WWE Championship by night’s end. On the women’s side, the question is whether WWE uses the Queen of the Ring final to set up a Ripley challenge or to run back SKY and Morgan for the title Morgan already holds.
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