Ranking All 15 WWE Debuts & Returns From 2025

13. Lash Legend

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It feels criminal to place Lash Legend this far down on the list, but as of this writing, she has had one televised match on the main roster since her formal call-up, making her grade for 2025 “incomplete.”

Legend has come a long way since debuting in NXT as the hostess of a horrific talk show, Lashing Out, in the NXT 2.0 era. She would transition to the ring, and early results were… not good. But she persevered and reached the point where her official debut this fall felt well-deserved.

An imposing figure on her own, being paired with former rival Nia Jax made Lash look even more unstoppable. The duo joined the hell WarGames team last month, with Legend entering last and serving as the difference-maker for her team – until Asuka accidentally misted her.

Consider this spot a neutral ranking for Lash: Had she debuted a couple months earlier and logged some more face and ring time in 2025, she undoubtedly would have landed higher on the list.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.