WWE Evolution 2025 (2025)

Interesting facts

The 2025 Evolution was a women's professional wrestling premium live event (PLE) produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions. It was the second Evolution event and took place on July 13, 2025, at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. This was the first Evolution and the first all-women's professional wrestling event to broadcast on both Netflix and Peacock, and the first Evolution since the inaugural 2018 event seven years prior.

Production

In October 2018, the American professional wrestling promotion WWE held an all-women's professional wrestling event called Evolution. This was WWE's first pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event to consist solely of women's matches and featured women from all of WWE's brand divisions at the time: Raw, SmackDown, NXT, and NXT UK, the latter of which was dissolved in 2022.

Before wrestler Mickie James's release from WWE in April 2021, she had pushed for the company to produce another all-female event as well as an all-female brand, but said she was "cut off at every opportunity". She claimed an unnamed WWE official told her that "women's wrestling doesn't make money" and that Evolution was the company's "lowest-rated pay-per-view ever in the history of WWE pay-per-views".

After another few years, a report emerged on March 6, 2025, that WWE was in fact planning to hold a second Evolution event. Bodyslam.net stated that the company was aiming to hold the event on July 5, 2025, at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, but noted that while the event was in the works, the schedule was tentative.

This was the first Evolution to be branded as a "premium live event" (PLE), a term the company introduced on January 1, 2022, to refer to its events that are available on PPV and via livestreaming. Evolution was held on the same night as the third part of Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour, emanating from the nearby Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which had caused concerns on attendance and viewership.

The PLE was broadcast on traditional PPV outlets worldwide. It was also available to livestream on Peacock in the United States, SuperSport in Sub-Saharan Africa, Disney+ in the Philippines, Abema in Japan, Netflix in most other international markets, and the WWE Network in any remaining countries that had not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts.

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