Ranking All 15 WWE Debuts & Returns From 2025 - From Worst To Best
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🗓️ 25 December 2025
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Andy ranks all 15 WWE main roster debuts and returns in 2025, including Brock Lesnar, AJ Lee, Penta, Nikki Bella, Stephanie Vaquer, and more...
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| 0:00.0 | Brock Lesnar is the worst WWE debut or return of 2025 because it just should not have happened. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome everybody, I'm Andy for What Culture Wrestling and today we are ranking all 15 debuts and returns on the W main roster in 2025. |
| 0:16.0 | Starting off with number 15, Brock Lesner and Luke. |
| 0:20.0 | So the guy came back through primarily to participate in John Cena's retirement tour from WWE. |
| 0:26.2 | He beat him at Russell Paloosa in a match that was not particularly well received. |
| 0:29.8 | He since resurfaced for war games and he participated on the heel side there. |
| 0:34.1 | And actually, if you were to remove all the other stuff, he was one of the better |
| 0:38.2 | performers in that match I fought in general. However, it is impossible to remove the other stuff |
| 0:43.1 | because the other stuff is being cited 44 times in Janelle Grant's lawsuit against WWE and |
| 0:50.2 | Vince McMahon. Brock Lesnar has not been found guilty of anything. Brock Lesnar is not up for trial himself. |
| 0:56.0 | However, there are huge ethical and moral questions that simply were not answered. |
| 1:01.0 | The matter is that WW brought Brat Lesnar back at this specific point because they judged |
| 1:06.0 | that enough time had passed for them to receive minimal backlash for this. |
| 1:11.6 | That's why they did it. It's cold, it's cynical, but it's the reality of the business. |
| 1:15.6 | And it's also why I've put him here at number 15 right at the very bottom of the list. |
| 1:20.6 | Stephen Fo, he's probably the biggest name on this. |
| 1:23.6 | Number 14, on this list I have gone for Nikki Bella. Now, let me explain this one a little bit. |
| 1:30.1 | I like Nikki Bella. I've always kind of like Nikki Bella. I thought that even when the |
| 1:34.6 | bella's were at their most hated in WWE, she had developed as a pretty damn good wrestler with a really |
| 1:40.3 | mean forearm. I mean, the Nikki Sawa memes go pretty damn hard, and I enjoy those a lot. |
| 1:47.1 | But this has not been a great year for Nikki Bella in WWE, and I was pro her returning as well, |
| 1:52.8 | because I think you can never have enough big names. You can never have enough figures from the |
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