25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2025
5. WrestlePalooza
A stinker of a show that stood as a monument to the wider creative problems within WWE in 2025, WrestlePalooza was a spiritual sequel to Raw Is Netflix in that it toasted a bold new relationship with a TV/streaming provider in just about the worst possible way.
Everything - even the best of what the show had to offer - had problems. The latest Triple H-narrated video package about the history of the company was exceptional but contradicted half of the Netflix one they'd produced in January. AJ Lee and CM Punk's mixed tag team match with Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins was red hot but went way, way too long. Could Stephanie Vaquer and Iyo Sky's workmanlike effort be heralded as match of the night when so much of it played out to silence? Cody Rhodes doesn't have bad matches, but his title defence against Drew McIntyre was the weakest outside of the WrestleMania 42 disaster with John Cena. Speaking of disasters, The Usos looked like they'd never met during their botch-laden mess with Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed. And more on just something else that sucked about Brock Lesnar's return elsewhere in this article.
Tellingly, there was near-universal agreement about its lack of quality. In tribal times defined by daily culture wars, most of WWE's base came together to acknowledge the show's obvious and avoidable failings. The next few years of television from the market leader will determine if it was a blip or the true moment of no return for the boom.