6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Evolution 2025 (Results & Review)
2. Disaster Royal
What can you say about the women’s battle royal without sounding like a condescending jerk? WWE got the result right, but the path to get there was just a mess.
Battle royals can be difficult to get right and feel like more than just a “get everyone on the show” match. A few women had standout moments - Nia Jax, Kelani Jordan, Lash Legend, Chelsea Green, and Nikki Bella all had decent moments, along with eventual winner Stephanie Vaquer - but much of the match was the usual “lay around and fight in the corner until it’s time to go bang-bang-bang with a series of eliminations.”
Natalya looked like a damn fool getting suckered into doing a piss-poor worm at Maxxine Dupri’s insistence, getting eliminated seconds later. There were about a dozen eliminations in the middle part of the match where nothing truly notable happened, unless you count Lola Vice and Bella shaking their hips in sync.
The battle royal wasn’t helped by AEW’s women’s Casino Gauntlet match taking place 24 hours earlier, producing a more dynamic, entertaining, and hard-hitting multi-woman match that left the WWE bout in the dust.
Still, kudos to Vaquer for punching her ticket to Clash in Paris, and here’s hoping NXT parlays Lash’s strong performance into something.