Nick Aldis vs. GUNTHER Made Official For WWE SummerSlam

Andrew ThompsonJuly 19, 2026, 1:48 pm

GUNTHER, Paul Levesque, Triple H, Nick Aldis

The match between Nick Aldis and GUNTHER was made official.

A WWE SummerSlam kickoff event was held at Fanatics Fest in New York City. As Chief Content Officer Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque was speaking to Michael Cole, GUNTHER stormed the stage and expressed his frustrations about SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis costing him the tag match at Saturday Night’s Main Event. If GUNTHER and Sami Zayn had won, they would have been added to the Undisputed WWE Title match at SummerSlam.

GUNTHER asked Levesque what he was going to do to correct that, and then Aldis joined the stage. GUNTHER went on to kick Aldis in the gut, but Aldis recovered and went after GUNTHER.

The security split them apart, and then Levesque made the announcement that at SummerSlam, Aldis and GUNTHER will go one-on-one.