3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2025 - Results & Review

4. What Was Accomplished?

Wrestling in general suffers from being a 52-week product, a television show with no season finale or climax that lasts for more than a week.

WarGames is designed to function as a big culmination of an angle between two groups of wrestlers, a double cage to contain all the hatred and settle the dispute once and for all. The vanquished team will have to limp away and regroup, while the victors will steam ahead.

At least, that’s how it should function.

Saturday’s men’s WarGames match theoretically pitted The Vision and its associates against an all-star babyface team that came together due to their issues with Paul Heyman and his charges. The match progressed along fine until Jey Uso called for his music so he could YEET with the fans.

From there, the match devolved in the Brock Lesnar-Roman Reigns Show, with Brock taking out the entire face team singlehandedly before Roman Reigns came down and the two wrestled outside the cage for a few minutes (with the heels still playing dead that entire time) before coming back inside to kick off a series of spears, Superman Punches, KO punches (with brass knuckles), and a mystery man to shift the balance before the finish.

The heels won, but the focus was on the mystery man and the melodrama surrounding Roman, Cody Rhodes, and CM Punk at the very end. The result felt very inconsequential. Everyone was standing around – no one was maimed in this supposed “war” – and certainly nothing felt settled. Brock and Roman almost operated outside the match itself, like guest stars rather than cast members.

If Heyman comes out on Monday and talks about how The Vision decimated their opponents and now rules over Raw, everyone should call BS. They won a cage match. Everyone walked away. Bron Breakker was probably the most seriously hurt from a botched Doomsday Device. Just a bland finish where “tension between the top faces” was the big takeaway.