Ranking All 15 WWE Debuts & Returns From 2025
1. Stephanie Vaquer
It’s hard to imagine someone having a better debut year in 2025 than Stephanie Vaquer.
La Primera made her bow on the Raw after WrestleMania, battling Iyo Sky in a fantastic match that amounted to little more than an exhibition, but it introduced the NXT Women’s Champion to fans who had not yet seen her.
Vaquer would formally join the Raw roster a couple of months later and immediately became one of the biggest acts on the show. She would earn a Women’s World Championship title match for Wrestlepalooza, where she won the vacant title (Naomi’s pregnancy certainly shook things up, and Vaquer might have been one of the biggest beneficiaries). A couple weeks later, La Primera defeated Tiffany Stratton in a champion-versus-champion match to become the Women’s Crown Jewel Champion.
Like Penta, Vaquer has a presence and a mystique about her that makes her an even bigger star in fans’ eyes. The fact that she’s the standard-bearer for the Raw women’s roster is a physical representation of that stardom.
In just a few short months, Vaquer has become a central figure on Raw and she’s barely scratched the surface of rivalries, with several huge ones (Becky Lynch, Liv Morgan, Rhea Ripley, to name a few) on the horizon. Her prospects for 2026 look fantastic, but she owes a lot of that to her outstanding start this year.