Brock Lesnar and Oba Femi set for Hell in a Cell match at SummerSlam

Oba Femi will face Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam instead of a challenging for a world title. | (Photo: WWE) Monday on Raw, Oba Femi put his guaranteed world title opportunity at SummerSlam on hold to instead settle his feud with Brock Lesnar inside Hell in a Cell. I’m not going to critique the booking so much as I’m going to call WWE out for breaking one of its biggest advertised promises. Part of the selling point of last Saturday’s Night of Champions was to see who would become King and Queen of the Ring and move on to SummerSlam for a world title match. Iyo Sky defeated Liv Morgan to become Queen, and will now face Morgan for the Women’s World Championship at WWE’s big summer show in August, as advertised. But fans who tuned into Night of Champions expecting the King of the Ring winner to earn a SummerSlam world title match got shortchanged. If WWE abandons that stipulation, and it appears it will, then it completely undermines one of the event’s central selling points. This about-face is no different than WWE promising fans that the winner of the Royal Rumble would wrestle for the world title in the main event of WrestleMania. While winners like Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, and Randy Orton competed for a world title, they did so earlier in the show rather than closing WrestleMania. The good news is that WWE still has time to honor its advertised stipulation by having Femi pull double duty at SummerSlam. If it doesn’t, WWE isn’t likely to go out of its way to make it up to fans. It never did before when breaking its Rumble promise, so why would this be any different? Card subject to change. That phrase used to mean something. It protected promoters from being unable to deliver what was advertised in the event of an injury, illness, another unforeseen event, or a sudden departure from the promotion by one of its stars. Today, it’s a crutch the company leans on when it’s no longer convenient to deliver what it promised to fans.

Brock Lesnar challenged his rival Oba Femi to the dreaded Hell in a Cell match on WWE "Raw."

When Oba Femi defeated Jey Uso in the opening match at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia this past weekend, he became the King of the Ring but more than that he became the number one contender to either the WWE or world heavyweight championship. WWE sold like he would have a big decision to make and we could get it as early as this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw back Stateside. Before he could make his choice — between Roman Reigns (world heavyweight champion) and Sami Zayn (WWE champion) — none other than Brock Lesnar made his return to television. Now everything, all original plans, have been flipped on their head. These two were always headed for a rubber match, what with Femi taking the first at WrestleMania 42 and seemingly sending The Beast into retirement before Lesnar got his lick back in the form of 7 F-5’s at Clash in Italy. The only real question was how they would put it together. Answer: Hell in a Cell at SummerSlam in Minneapolis. Lesnar hit Femi with a low blow after interrupting his big promo, and Oba responded by demanding they settle it at the biggest party fo the summer. Lesnar wanted to one-up him by saying they should do it inside Hell in a Cell. Raw General Manager Adam Pearce made it official not long after: OBA VS BROCK. SUMMERSLAM. HELL IN A CELL. OFFICIAL ✅ 🎟️: https://t.co/NCo5yBBF5n pic.twitter.com/o7MaaMW0TX — WWE (@WWE) June 29, 2026 Femi’s argument is the titles will always be there and he can challenge for them later. Instead, he wants to settle up with Lesnar and put this rivalry to bed. It could very well end up being the final match of Brock Lesnar’s pro wrestling career. Like how they did this? Get complete Raw results and coverage of this week’s entire episode by clicking here.

Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar are officially set to clash at WWE SummerSlam, this time, in a huge stipulation match.