3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2025 - Results & Review
WWE leans on moments, returns, mysteries to power disappointing Big Four PLE.
Well, that was certainly a WWE PLE.
Survivor Series 2025 is officially in the books, and if you were watching for moments, like a surprise return or a mystery man, or Iyo Sky jumping off a cage wearing a trashcan, or main-event babyfaces teasing tension, then you might have ended up fulfilled.
But if you watch different forms of wrestling and happened to see a similar pair of double cage matches earlier this month and enjoy cohesive, impactful in-ring action and storytelling, then you likely came away from Survivor Series more than disappointed.
As one of WWE’s “Big Four” PLEs, Survivor Series is often held up as one of its most significant shows of the year, even when it doesn’t really deserve that billing. What the company offered Saturday night was a B-show with two underwhelming gimmick matches and two breather matches masquerading as a massive stadium show.
WarGames always was going to face a challenge with AEW’s Blood and Guts taking place less than two weeks prior. Even if you don’t like claret flowing, the action in those two AEW matches was far superior to the sanitized, soft, half-intensity action WWE produced. That’s not to say the WarGames matches were bad, but if you’re going to critique them, neither match really rose to the level one would demand and expect from the biggest sports entertainment company on the planet.
But hey, John Cena’s retirement tour produced a legit grand time, so there was that.
Let’s get to it…