WWE SummerSlam 2026 predictions, match card analysis for Night 2: Roman Reigns will exorcise his Seth Rollins demons
Night 1 is in the books and WWE has quite the SummerSlam encore ready.Roman Reigns gets a chance to finally exorcise his Seth Rollins demons at U.S.Bank Stadium on Sunday.
We will have a new interim WWE Women’s champion and fresh No.1 contender for the Undisputed WWE championship along with Danhausen competing in a “Human Monies on a Pole” match in 2026.The Post’s pro wrestling columnist Joseph Staszewski tries his best to predict how it will all play out in Minneapolis.WWE is all-in on Danhausen and using him to help build up Joe Hendry, even if their concert on Raw missed the mark.
The Human Monies on Pole stipulation is right out of the Vince Russo playbook but makes some sense in this situation after Judgment Day claims Danhausen stole $100,000 from them after they asked him to curse Oba Femi during the King of the Ring tournament.WWE will want to keep the good vibes around Danhausen, who will not have to pin Mysterio, the AAA Mega champion, to win.
Hendry and the Minihausens help thwart Judgment Day to allow Danhausen to claim victory.Pick DanhausenFinn Balor has been on a quest for months to claim his first world championship in 10 years and has been unbeaten since joining SmackDown.Zayn needs even more reason to crash out, and a loss of this magnitude will do it.
He would be out of a clear chance to be WWE champion again.Balor will keep his push rolling into a match with either CM Punk or Cody Rhodes.Pick: Finn BalorThere is no better time or place to give Chad Gable, a Minneapolis native, his first singles championship in WWE.
Gable is as over as he’s ever been with the audience after his work as the Original El Grande Americano.He already has one match of the year candidate and these two could steal the show.
WWE hasn’t done much of any substance with Penta during this reign.He’s defended it eight times on television, mostly against random challengers since dethroning Dominik Mysterio.
It would be fitting for Gable’s story to beat a l...