25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2025
2. WWE's Creative Decline
It seems counter-intuitive, but compiling a list of approximately 25 moments for a "worst" list is something doable even in a banner year for WWE and/or AEW. Companies on hot streaks aren't immune from duds, and in something as tough to make as a live weekly never-ending production, keeping the garbage confined to to double figures is itself an impressive bar to clear. But it's the context and the nature and the scale of the clangers that should and do raise concern if you're a WWE homer.
There's making a mess of a WrestleMania main event, and in fact blowing so much of the build to your biggest show of the year that multi-person matches made up for singles slogs. There's becoming obsessed with reality show angles/worked shoot bobbins so much that it derails programmes and breaks down audience trust. There's disappearing up the backsides of sponsors, execs, comedians and anybody else who wants face time at the expense of a real fan that wants to enjoy the show, and there's continuing to price those fans out with brutal price-hikes around every corner. There's the return of every bad habit, from non-finishes to 50/50 feuds to dropped threads, followed by press conference bollockings that are way more defensive than the booking practices themselves.
Then, there's a run that should simply have been era-defining, when instead it simply - for all the wrong reasons - defined this specific era...