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

2. A Kid Gloves Women’s Cage Match

You seriously have to give it to AEW for running Blood and Guts less than two weeks prior to Survivor Series and having the first women’s double cage match in company history – and then having the women go all-out with the violence. The women’s WarGames match inevitably was going to be compared to it, and not favorably.

Saturday’s women’s WarGames match was a substantially underwhelming match that did no one in the match any favors. The weapons shots – sparse as they were – looked weak and unconvincing, which then made the “lay on the mat and sell for literally five minutes” routine even more glaring.

The opening 15 minutes were some of the most forgettable minutes of a WarGames match in recent memory. Can anyone cite a single spot that stood out before Becky Lynch lost her mind at AJ Lee entering the match? Usually, in a multi-person match like this, fans can isolate a sequence designed to get someone over; a spotlight segment, if you will. There was nothing like that here.

That’s not to say this was a badly worked match or that there was nothing of quality, but they seriously could have – and should have – run this as a traditional five-on-five Survivor Series elimination match. The double cage served zero purpose. At no point did this feel like a blood feud. It was held inside WarGames because that’s what the calendar dictated.