Overview
- Saturday Night’s Main Event at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, July 18 featured high‑profile appearances from New York Knicks stars Jalen Brunson and Karl‑Anthony Towns that dominated the broadcast.
- Karl‑Anthony Towns made a surprise in‑ring return to help Danhausen by choke‑slamming JD McDonagh and Dominik Mysterio, enabling Danhausen to win a No Disqualification match.
- Roman Reigns presented Jalen Brunson with a custom Knicks‑themed WWE World Heavyweight belt during the closing segment and posed with the Larry O’Brien trophy while fans chanted for Brunson.
- The celebration was interrupted when Tyrese Haliburton and Seth Rollins attacked Reigns, but Brunson intervened and Reigns recovered to fend them off, a moment that feeds the SummerSlam build between Reigns and Rollins.
- SNME outcomes also included CM Punk and Cody Rhodes defeating Gunther and Sami Zayn after Nick Aldis’ interference, new women’s tag champions were crowned, and a limited Knicks x WWE t‑shirt was released through July 19.