4 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2025 - Sunday (Results & Review)

2. Who Booked This Card?

By the time Sunday’s show got to the third match of the night, it became pretty apparent that WWE had not paid particular attention to the match types when they booked both nights’ cards.

Saturday’s show featured six announced tag and singles matches, all straightforward bouts with no special stipulations. Then came Sunday, which went like this: triple threat (no disqualifications), TLC, no-DQ, steel cage, singles match, street fight.

That’s six matches, five of which carried essentially a no-DQ stipulation and allowed for plunder and interference galore. By the time we got to the Undisputed WWE Championship street fight, fans had seen a dozen tables broken, a bunch of steel chairs wielded, ladders broken, and kendo sticks swung.

This was poor booking, especially when it came to the TLC match for the WWE Tag Team Championship and the Women’s Intercontinental Championship, which ran back-to-back. Trying to watch Becky Lynch and Lyra Valkyria batter each other with weapons after seeing 12 wrestlers absolutely obliterate each other moments earlier was quite the effort. You unconsciously become desensitized to the weapon shots and have a more difficult time registering the impact of those attacks.

Flipping one or two matches on each night would have made a tremendous difference.