Night of Champions (2025)
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| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown | ||
| Date | June 28, 2025 | ||
| City | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | ||
| Venue | Kingdom Arena | ||
| Attendance | 25,000 | ||
| Tagline | The Last Time is Now | ||
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The 2025 Night of Champions, also promoted as Night of Champions: Riyadh, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American company WWE. It was the 11th Night of Champions and took place on Saturday, June 28, 2025, at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, held for wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. Night of Champions is characterized by featuring championship matches; however, the 2025 event only had two, although two others were planned but were cancelled due to injuries.
The event hosted the finals of both the 24th King of the Ring and third Queen of the Ring tournaments; the last tournaments for each were held in 2024. This was the second Night of Champions to take place in Saudi Arabia, after the last Night of Champions that was held in 2023, and the 13th event that WWE held in Saudi Arabia under a 10-year partnership in support of Saudi Vision 2030. Like many of WWE's events held in Saudi Arabia, it was sponsored by the country's General Entertainment Authority via Riyadh Season. This was also John Cena's final Night of Champions appearance and last appearance at a PPV and livestreaming event in Saudi Arabia as an in-ring performer due to his retirement from professional wrestling at the end of 2025.
Six matches were contested at the event. In the main event, John Cena defeated CM Punk to retain SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Championship. In other prominent matches, SmackDown's Jade Cargill defeated Raw's Asuka to win the Queen of the Ring tournament, thus earning a match for the WWE Women's Championship at SummerSlam, and in the opening bout, Cody Rhodes defeated Randy Orton, both from SmackDown, to win the King of the Ring tournament, thus earning a match for the Undisputed WWE Championship, also at SummerSlam. The event marked the return of Tonga Loa in his first appearance after suffering an injury at Survivor Series: WarGames in November 2024, and the WWE televised debut of Hikuleo, whose ring name was changed to Talla Tonga.