Je'Von Evans Interview, Money in the Bank, Grand Slam France & More | No-Contest Wrestling

Je'Von Evans does not have a game plan for Money in the Bank. He has a goal, and he said it out loud more than once: become the youngest Money in the Bank winner in WWE history, then the youngest world champion.

Evans came back to No Contest Wrestling for his third appearance, which puts him one visit away from Oba Femi's record for most times on the show. O'Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ welcomed back "the young OG" almost exactly a year after his first episode, which aired October 6, 2025. The hosts suspect that first visit, and the Sega Genesis bit in particular, may still hold the title for the show's most clipped moment.

Money in the Bank is Saturday, October 10, at 6 p.m. Eastern on the ESPN unlimited plan, a detail Evans rattled off so cleanly that one of the hosts cracked, "That's a man that read his emails right there."

Evans said he spent the previous night streaming and studying for the ladder match, but admitted the format resists planning.

"I don't really have like a game plan, you know. It's kind of different. You can't really game plan with a match like this," he said. "You gotta be like, 'All right, cool. If this is an opening, then I'll do whatever I can.'"

What he does have is the history he wants to write. "I'm excited and, you know, I can't wait to make history and become the youngest Money in the Bank to ever do it."

The men's field is stacked: Evans, Bron Breakker, Trick Williams, CM Punk, Kevin Owens and Penta. The hosts called Penta the scariest man in the match to hold a briefcase because of his international love, and TJ broke his own rule about waiting until after the interview to predict a winner. His read is that it comes down to Evans and Breakker swinging at each other at the end. The worry for everybody else is numbers. Logan Paul was already back in there throwing punches, Bronson Reed will be floating around, and Austin Theory is in the mix, which TJ said puts the numbers game on Breakker's side.

Penta is also the man Evans has worked alongside for the last five months, and Evans called it a blessing.

"I actually used to watch Penta when I was on the Indies. He was like one of the people that I would study," he said. Now they have built a brotherhood. That does not change Saturday. "We both also know that when it comes to wrestling and when it comes to goals and stuff that, you know, we both want to achieve them."

Evans said he likes borrowing small details from luchadors, the way they move or build to their spots, without taking too much. He looks for the things they are not emphasizing. "All right, cool. They're not really focused on that. Let me take that and add it to my game."

The last time Evans was on the show, he was heading into his first WrestleMania ladder match, and one of the hosts had told him to take a second for himself on the stage. That host went back and rewatched it, and Evans did exactly that.

"The biggest thing that really stood out was just the amount of people that was watching me for real," Evans said. "I went out there and I was like, damn, bro. That's a lot of people."

He called it a feeling he will always remember. The only advice he got beforehand was the basics: "have fun and take a moment to just breathe and, you know, realize what you're doing." He plans to do the same Saturday, because, he said, "Money in the Bank is like lowkey one of my favorite events." The hosts agreed, arguing that if there were a fifth spot next to the big four premium live events, Money in the Bank would get it.

His King of the Ring run came up next. "I don't think there's anybody that can say they was in the King of the Ring at 22 years old," Evans said, and he was only eliminated by a world champion in Jey Uso. The hosts ran through the list: a clean win over Rusev, an enemy made of The Vision after they tried to recruit him.

Evans was blunt about that group. "I don't like them, you feel me? But like now I get to learn another like skill about myself." The feud forced a change in approach. "Now I know I can't be just doing all the flips and all the cool stuff. Let's throw hands now."

The hosts have noticed. One of them described a subtle character evolution, complete with a grill and a Nelly band-aid: no longer a kid happy to be there, but someone who is there to let people know who he is. He contrasted it with Tupac's Bishop in Juice, who snaps all at once. Evans offered his own comparison, Franklin from Snowfall.

"At first he's just a little homie, you know what I mean? Around a bad environment, but then he becomes a product of his environment," Evans said. "That's probably how, you know, Je'Von is right now."

Evans has also put on muscle since his NXT days, as the hosts pointed out. He said the extra size is about longevity and body health, and that a few more pounds should not stop him from doing the cool stuff he does, and looking good while doing it.

Another evolution is on the microphone, and it comes with a confession. Evans started on the independent scene at 13 and did not like cutting promos as a kid going against grown adults.

"I can't be saying, you know, 'Oh, I'mma beat you up and I'mma win,'" he said. "Nobody's gonna believe that, bro. I didn't like my voice."

Signing with WWE made him lock in. "Promos is as easy as a match when you really break it down," he said. Now he is comfortable with his voice, and he issued a warning: "It's probably about to get dangerous. I'm not even going to lie to you."

His go-to for promos is Paul Heyman. "That's my number one guy," Evans said, adding that Heyman understands that "I just talk so different." He shared an example from a segment with JD and Dom, where his first instinct was a "cranium" line he thinks only people who talk like him would catch.

Then there is the dive over the barricade. Evans said he has never been badly caught, but "there's been a couple times where I've like jumped too early," which means taking the barricade straight in the ribs. Fans worried about getting hit can relax. "I see where I'm going," he said. One exception: "If you are booing me and you're behind that timekeeper section, just know I might be coming for you."

On the fans more broadly, Evans kept it simple. He is grateful, and he said fans "kind of help with putting food on the table for us."

Money in the Bank also puts Evans back in the ring with Trick Williams, a pairing NXT fans saw plenty of. One of the hosts shared a photo he took at Stand and Deliver of Evans, Oba Femi and Williams in the ring together.

"I can't wait for us to take like that same picture and be like in the same exact spots," Evans said, picturing a WrestleMania with the WWE Championship or World Heavyweight Championship on the line. He pointed out the three of them have made noise despite the fact that "we haven't even been here a year yet."

He also laid out a prediction. Williams with the WWE Championship, Femi with the World Heavyweight Championship, and Evans holding Money in the Bank with a choice to make. His timeline: by 2028. The hosts promised to remember that episode 105 is where he called it.

TJ asked about the clip circulating on social media of Evans and Jackson Drake wrestling each other at 14. Evans did not oversell it.

"Man, that match was horrible," he said, laughing. "But it was good cuz we was 14. So it was good, you know, for some 14 year olds."

Then he got serious about Drake, now the North American champion. "That's my best friend, dog. That's like my day one, my ride or die," Evans said. Being signed to the same company is one of their main goals realized, and he cannot wait to see Drake on the main roster with his own spotlight. He credited their trainer for taking them on young, saying "nobody was training 13 year olds."

The hosts sent him off with their usual plea to be careful, and Evans closed with the full declaration: youngest Money in the Bank winner in WWE history, then youngest World Heavyweight or WWE champion. "It's going to happen and I got no choice but to make it happen."

He is 22. After he left, TJ still stuck with Breakker for storyline reasons and the numbers advantage of The Vision, while acknowledging how hard the odds can be to overcome.

Before the interview, the hosts previewed Oba Femi against Bronson Reed. The hosts made the case for taking Reed seriously: "Bronson Reed has a victory over the tribal chief, which should automatically put him in some rarified air." They counted him among only three wrestlers to beat both Okada and Roman Reigns, noting that Samoa Joe and Finn Balor beat Reigns before he was the Tribal Chief.

The women's ladder match features Tiffany Stratton, Roxanne, Sol, Lola Vice and Lash Legend, along with the women's US champion. The hosts stressed its 100 percent success rate, since every woman who has secured the briefcase has gone on to become a women's world champion. They estimated the men's conversion rate somewhere around 70 to 75 percent.

One host painted a scenario: Raquel comes out to help Roxanne win the briefcase, and later that night Roxanne cashes in on the triple threat between Stephanie Vaquer, Becky Lynch and Liv Morgan, leaving Judgment Day with some explaining to do on Monday. His partner countered that Nia Jax would not sit and watch Lash Legend lose, and the hosts admitted part of them wants Legend to win just to annoy the naysayers. They also floated Stratton winning as a way to break up her partnership with Chelsea, noting Stratton has told them she loves being a heel. Lola Vice, meanwhile, entrusted the hosts with naming her move, and the leading candidate after this episode is the NSFW.

That triple threat came out of Raw, where Becky faced Liv, Vaquer came down, and the match ended, fittingly, in a no contest.

Roman Reigns against LA Knight launched a full conspiracy board about who is behind 946. TJ has already floated Knight himself, but he also ran through the field: Jacob, who got hit with a car and is probably eliminated, Solo, Jey, and Jimmy Uso, who might be wondering what about him after Jey stepped up during his injury. Then TJ went bigger with Reigns himself, and finally The Rock, setting up a long-awaited WrestleMania showdown. "We're running out of time for these two," TJ said. O'Shea's reaction to any of this: "I'm in a world where Sami Zayn is a two-time WWE Champion."

The Reigns conversation also brought a familiar warning about fans who want a beloved star to turn heel. "Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it," one host said. Fans wanted Reigns as a heel and got him for 1,316 days, cheating to win like a heel does, and then got mad. The same warning applies to anyone wishing for a heel Cody Rhodes.

Both hosts also reminisced about the very first Money in the Bank at WrestleMania at the Staples Center, which one of them attended. He still has photos on his phone of the field, which he remembered as Shelton Benjamin, Chris Jericho, Kane, Edge, Christian and Chris Benoit, with Edge winning.

At the emotional center of the episode was Benjamin Satterley, known to fans as Pac and Neville. The hosts said nobody does a tribute show better than AEW, and the Pac tribute proved it. TJ said rewatching an old Death Triangle match with Penta and Rey Fenix brought home a hard truth.

"He was so good, I took him for granted," TJ said, recalling that he never took Orange Cassidy seriously until Cassidy held his own with Pac.

That led O'Shea into a story about Jason Mitchell, who played Eazy-E in Straight Outta Compton, marveling at driving the 405 on his first trip to LA because, coming from Louisiana, he had never been inside a mountain. The point was the same: magnificent things become normal when you see them every day. "Pac was magnificent," the hosts agreed.

They highlighted Will Ospreay hitting Pac's Black Arrow in his match with Ricochet, a move he reportedly practiced from a standing position, and the real emotion in his scream as he went for the pin. They noted Austin Creed's connection to Neville from their NXT video game days, and Mercedes Moné making sure she was part of the show. They urged fans to find Jon Moxley's speech at the end of All Out: "You owe it to yourself as a wrestling fan to go seek out John Moxley's speech." And Bryan Danielson came out of retirement to wrestle, which they said showed how important the night was.

Rather than giving flowers to one person, the hosts gave them to every performer in AEW and WWE who was a friend of Satterley and still went out and performed under the phrase "the show must go on." They also noticed that anyone wearing a Pac or Ben armband went hard that night, including Kevin Owens in his Money in the Bank qualifier and Bayley.

Grand Slam France got its own rundown. Mercedes Moné beat Queen Aminata, though the hosts noted Aminata "was working her the majority of that match." Samoa Joe defeated Jack Perry in a match Perry asked for. "Jack Perry be asking for a lot," one host said, while the hosts gave him credit for calling out Joe and living to tell the tale, barely. Moxley and Gabe Kidd lost a tag match that surprised the hosts, and Darby Allin against Kyle Fletcher drew a wince for how much Allin gave. Ospreay against Okada needed no breakdown. "It gets all the stars. It is what you wanted it to be," the hosts said.

On NXT, Wren Sinclair won a battle royal under a mask before revealing herself, which recalled a Georgia Championship Wrestling angle from the early 1980s where a masked Mr. R turned out to be Brad Armstrong instead of Tommy Rich. The hosts declared it time for a Wren quest, since she now follows the show.

Next week brings a new top five countdown: the hardest slaps on WWE television, inspired by Giulia, who "smacked the taste out of Blake Monroe" and might have replaced Sonya Deville at the top of the list. The hosts were also glad to see Monroe finally make her main roster debut after more than 100 days.

The show just marked two years since its first episode. "Not a single cake here for us," the hosts noted. But they have the fans.