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

1. So. Much. TALKING.

Welcome to WWE in 2025, where every wrestler must monologue during their matches.

Dear God, the level of superstars carrying on full conversations in the ring Saturday night was near-unbearable. Bron Breakker carried on quite a bit in the ring, even singing to Roman Reigns at one point (“Roman! You suck!”). Karrion Kross kept urging Sami Zayn to “just say it”, that Kross was right, over and over. Scarlett got involved, too, yelling from the floor for Sami to pick up the lead pipe and use it on her husband.

During the celebrity tag match, Jelly Roll and Randy Orton had an entire hype-up session on camera before Jelly turned around and crapped himself trying to face off against Drew McIntyre. The Scottish Warrior also got in on the chattering action, mocking Jelly Roll and telling him he didn’t belong in a wrestling ring. And of course, Gunther talked some trash on CM Punk during the main event.

Not all chatter during a match is bad, but WWE has gone full overkill with the melodramatic diatribes in the ring, viewing a match more as a televised representation of competition and inserting dialogue to really lay it on thick for the viewing audience. It’s similar to any sports-based movie where they cut to the players between the action, and they have entire conversations to set the scene.

Recently, though, it seems like more than half the matches on WWE programming default to this chattering on camera, which cheapens when something critical happens verbally. Get this under control, WWE, before it becomes an epidemic and wrestlers are delivering full monologues every time out there.