8 Worst Wrestling Matches Of 2025 (According To The Internet)
3. Jimmy Uso vs. Talla Tonga (WWE SmackDown - 1 August)
Rating: 2.66/10
Was this doomed by much the audience the moment it was announced?
The first version of the MFTs found Solo Sikoa and family trying and failing to portray the same vicious version of The Bloodline that briefly terrorised SmackDown in the absence of Roman Reigns in 2024. Key to that was a) the shadow of 'The Tribal Chief' himself looming large over the group and b) the instant brilliance of Jacob Fatu as the group's on-sight killer. Both elements were missing in 2025, and until a post-SummerSlam re-tooling, the the group badly floundered as a result.
Never was this more evident than in the run-up to the 'Biggest Party Of The Summer'. On paper, Talla Tonga Vs Jimmy Uso would have been nightmare fuel for some, but what it really lacked was any investment deeper than surface level. Talla sold too much for a monster making his in-ring debut, 'Big Jim's offence was often a touch too lethargic to get the the new big threat over, and the samoan in-fighting had become tiresome long before these two even locked up.
The aforementioned SummerSlam showdown between Sikoa and Fatu was subjectively worse - the pair had the benefit of a steel cage and a stadium setting but failed to make the match feel violent or consequential, with the action often nearly slowing to a stop when it should have been, appropriately, all gas no brakes. Promotion and performers alike have leaned into the sillier side of the stable ever since - Solo swears his revenge while his four henchmen do the dirty work, but tongues are at least now in-cheek.