Oba Femi Wins 2026 King of the Ring in 8 Minutes, Secures SummerSlam Title Shot

Q: How does Sami Zayn’s shocking championship win complicate King Oba Femi’s planned SummerSlam title match?

Sami Zayn’s upset title win changes Oba Femi’s SummerSlam path by potentially replacing the opponent Femi appeared to be weighing just moments earlier. When Femi won King of the Ring at Night of Champions, he earned a guaranteed world title match at SummerSlam and left open whether he would challenge World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns or WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. But later on the same show, Zayn stunned Cody Rhodes and Gunther to win the Undisputed WWE Championship. That means one of the title pictures shifted immediately, and if Femi was considering the WWE/Undisputed championship route, he is now looking at Zayn instead of Rhodes. The complication is not that Femi lost his opportunity; it is that the target changed. A planned marquee match against an established champion such as Rhodes is no longer available in that form. Instead, Femi must decide whether to pursue the newly crowned Zayn, whose surprise victory creates a fresh and less predictable storyline, or go after Reigns for the other world title. It also raises the stakes for timing and strategy. Zayn has just had a career-defining breakthrough and would enter SummerSlam with momentum and sympathy, while Femi arrives as a dominant, fast-finishing tournament winner. That makes the decision more complex creatively and competitively, because WWE now has a new champion to build around and Femi’s choice carries different narrative weight than it did before Zayn’s win.

3 articles · Updated · Cageside Seats · Jun 27

About eight minutes was all Oba Femi needed to beat Jey Uso in the 2026 King of the Ring final at WWE Night of Champions in Riyadh.
Uso landed superkicks, splashes, a spear and a sleeper hold, but Femi absorbed the offense before finishing him with the Fall from Grace powerbomb.
The victory crowns Femi as King of the Ring and earns him a world title match at SummerSlam.
Femi did not say after the match whether he will challenge World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns or WWE Champion Cody Rhodes.