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

1. Another Gloriously Overbooked Cena Match

Every time they have run John Cena out there for a match post-face turn (save for one obvious outlier), it has been an overbooked mess designed to hide his deficiencies and still produce a maximum crowd reaction. And it’s worked magnificently, making the lost time during that ill-conceived heel turn even worse.

Saturday, Cena defended his Intercontinental Championship against Dominik Mysterio in Dom’s hometown of San Diego. Unlike in Boston, where Dirty Dom was outgunned in a fair fight, the Judgment Day ran interference and had all hands on deck to help him.

Mysterio feigned an injury coming off the barricade (similar to how Penta legit injured himself), which allowed Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez to sneak into the ring and hit their finishers on Cena. Yes, the 17-time world champion took a Tejana Bomb and a Pop-Rox from two female wrestlers. Awesome stuff, but it wasn’t enough – because the referee refused to count the fall when he realized Dominik was faking, and he assumed (correctly) that the ruse allowed the women to interfere.

After a ref bump, Finn Balor and JD McDonagh ran down to get involved, but Cena fought them off. Cue a returning Liv Morgan, who duped Cena by actually hitting Mysterio before kicking John low and paving the way for Dominik to regain the Intercontinental Championship.

This was a completely overbooked circus of a match, but damn it was fun, and the best part of Survivor Series.