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AEW vs. WWE - Who Had The Best Year In 2025?

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WhatCulture Wrestling

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The WhatCulture Wrestling team debates whether WWE or AEW had the best year in 2025...


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0:00.0

I'm going to say AW.

0:03.0

I think that when I kind of boil it down, right, I'm going to think about it really simplistically.

0:08.0

I don't think anything in WW has been as good as the past three or four months of John Moxley's character arc at the time we're recording this.

0:15.0

As soon as this man escaped the cope vortex, as I'm labeling it, it was almost like, oh yeah, I'm good at this.

0:21.8

Kind of reignited in him, and he kind of figured out how to reconfigure the entire Def Rider story into something that was going to benefit the product as a whole. I think that the way that man has portrayed being like a predator who's suffered an injury while stalking his praise. He's backed into the corner. he's weakening over and over again

0:38.3

in these matches with Darby Allen and Kyle O'Reilly

0:40.3

and he's'Reilly.

0:54.2

And he's saying, I quit, and he's giving up in the middle of these matches. And then he's reacting to them by going, hey, ah, it doesn't count, guys, it doesn't count. I'll see you next week. I'll take care of it then. All the while this evil dictator-coded vulture, Claudio Castagnoli is like plotting his demise

0:57.2

with the rest of the death right. the while this evil dictator coded vulture,

0:54.3

Claudio Castagnoli is like plotting his demise

0:57.2

with the rest of the death riders around him.

0:59.3

I don't think anything in WWE has been plotted that well

1:02.7

or executed that well.

1:03.7

And by the time this video comes out,

1:04.9

they might have done the angle where they kick him out

1:07.1

and all of that stuff as well.

1:08.9

I think it's been an incredible success to take something that was so loathed for so long

1:15.6

and completely flip it around to something that is going to benefit literally everybody in that stable,

1:20.6

as well as Kyle O'Reilly, as well as Darby Allen, and a bunch of other people who've interacted with them as well.

1:26.6

But the other wins all over the place as well. Well, I don't think it's necessarily been the best year in the company's history. Far from it, in fact. I do think it's been a damn sight better than 2023 and parts of 2024. I think the Marina She fears, she's one of my favorite wrestlers of the year. I think I've seen three singles matches.

1:45.0

Doesn't matter.

1:46.0

I think that the way she's grown into her character has been very, very encouraging.

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