25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2025
18. Kyle Lore
The October 7th edition of Dynamite featured a match between Kyle Fletcher and Kyle O'Reilly. Fletcher's TNT Title was on the line, it followed the standard AEW formula of "match good" and there was the added bonus, sort of, of Don Callis Family/Conglomeration lore.
More than enough for a TV match then, but the two had wrestled once before and been greeted with "Kyle" chants so O'Reilly decided to contribute something to social media that took a largely satisfied audience and split it in half. Revealing some preposterous Kyle Lore hours before the bell, O'Reilly's post got so deep into magical mystical bollocks that it inadvertently got sections of the audience asking far bigger questions than "who will win this title match?"
This was less than ideal to say the least, and was indicative of a wider problem many have found with AEW this year - is everything just played for laughs? The company that was once best at winks and nudges has all-too-often gone too far in that direction, playing down the severity of situations of late and doing significant harm to the very purpose of the wrestling promotion in the process. If that sounds like an overstatement, consider this - in kayfabe, did the post by O'Reilly make the match seem more or less important? Or did it campaign for "Kyle" chants because it got a moderate pop the last time?
Plenty of fans speculated that the entire thing was generated by AI too, just in case it wasn't already an unbearable enough vision of things to come.