WWE Night Of Champions Full Updated Card With 2 New Matches Added

WWE announced two new matches for the Night of Champions premium live event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 28.

Rhea Ripley will battle Raquel Rodriguez in a Street Fight that seems bound to have some Judgment Day storyline tie-ins. It also could turn out to be the female version of the underrated WrestleMania 41 classic between Drew McIntyre and Damian Priest.

Don’t sleep on this match. The ladies will want to put on an excellent show. With Liv Morgan out with an injury, it could be another opportunity for Rodriguez to regain a singles push.

Also, the red-hot Karrion Kross is getting a singles match on a PLE for the first time since 2022 when he lost to McIntyre in a steel cage at Crown Jewel.

Kross has been quietly building momentum and is finally getting some spotlight to cash in on that charismatic creep-factor aura he’s been radiating since WrestleMania season.

If WWE is serious about giving him a mid-year bump, this could be the start of something meaningful—especially with a guy like Zayn who knows how to turn a match into a moment. Zayn is also at a point where his character needs a pair of jumper cables. Maybe Kross will give him a jump.

With those two matches added, the NOC card is as followed:

• WWE Championship: John Cena (c) vs. CM Punk
• King of the Ring Tournament Final: Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes
• Queen of the Ring Tournament Final: Asuka vs. Jade Cargill
• United States Championship: Jacob Fatu (c) vs. Solo Sikoa
• Street Fight: Rhea Ripley vs. Raquel Rodriguez
• Sami Zayn vs. Karrion Kross

That’s a solid six-match card, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see another match added. We lost the men’s intercontinental title match that would have seen Dominik Mysterio defending his strap against AJ Styles.

Mysterio suffered an injury to his rib cage but is not expected to miss a ton of time. Therefore, it doesn’t appear as though he’ll be stripped of the title. That said, you have to wonder if WWE will move to add another title match to the card to lean into the championship concept a bit more heavily.

Friday’s episode of SmackDown is also in Riyadh, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see some major happenings on the show. That said, it will be broadcast on delay in the United States. So WWE could play it more as a straight go-home show ahead of NOC.

It’s a show to watch as WWE has gone big throughout the entire weekend when they’ve had these kinds of takeover weekends. Currently, there are no tag-team matches on tap. It’s a natural fit for one of those to be added to NOC on SmackDown.

Something involving Logan Paul has been rumored for weeks, and if it doesn’t land here, he might be added to something set for a SummerSlam build. Either way, don’t be shocked if SmackDown delivers something unexpected.

Stay tuned for coverage of any NOC-related events on SmackDown and of the PLE on Saturday.