Adam's Top 25 Wrestling Matches of 2025
Man, I love professional wrestling. It's a truly unique art form, one that operates much like comic books and superhero mythology. Just as comics use heightened reality to explore good and evil, identity, and personal struggle, wrestling turns athletic competition into modern mythmaking.
Wrestlers function as comic book archetypes brought to life: heroes defined by courage, resilience, and justice, villains shaped by ego, ambition, and corruption, and antiheroes caught somewhere in between. Despite the pageantry, their conflicts are grounded in human flaws and desires, giving the spectacle emotional weight and purpose.
What makes wrestling unique as an artistic medium is how it fuses that mythology with real, physical performance. The storytelling is enacted through bodies in motion — through tie-ups, suplexes, submission holds, and gravity-defying aerial maneuvers. Yes, it's scripted, but the athleticism and the passion are real — so is the pain.
Wrestling asks you to believe in something unbelievable, then rewards that belief with genuine, unforgettable moments. 2025 was filled with matches that honored that contract between performer and audience, where faith in the illusion was rewarded with artistry, brutality, and, yes, even catharsis.
These are the matches that stayed with me — the ones that made me gasp, cheer, and believe in something bigger than myself — my Top 25 Wrestling Matches of 2025.
My Top 25 Wrestling Matches of 2025
- Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley (AEW ALL IN: TEXAS)
- Adam Page vs. Will Ospreay (AEW DOUBLE OR NOTHING)
- Mariah May vs. Toni Storm (AEW REVOLUTION)
- Bandido vs. Konosuke Takeshita (ROH SUPERCARD OF HONOR)
- Konosuke Takeshita vs. Will Ospreay (AEW SPRING BREAKTHRU)
- Bandido vs. Hechicero (ROH DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR)
- Kyle Fletcher vs. Will Ospreay (AEW REVOLUTION)
- Adam Page vs. Kyle Fletcher (AEW ALL OUT)
- Kyle Fletcher vs. Mike Bailey (AEW DYNAMITE)
- Kenny Omega vs. Mike Bailey vs. Ricochet (AEW DYNASTY)
- Kazuchika Okada vs. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mascara Dorada (AEW ALL OUT)
- Athena vs. Mercedes Moné (AEW SPRING BREAKTHRU)
- Bandido & Brody King vs. Kazuchika Okada & Konosuke Takeshita (AEW WRESTLEDREAM)
- The Young Bucks vs. Swerve Strickland & Will Ospreay (AEW ALL IN TEXAS)
- Mercedes Moné vs. Toni Storm (AEW ALL IN TEXAS)
- Kenny Omega vs. Konosuke Takeshita (AEW REVOLUTION)
- Kyle Fletcher vs. Jon Moxley (AEW WORLD'S END)
- Jon Moxley vs. Konosuke Takeshita (AEW DYNAMITE)
- Harley Cameron, Jamie Hayter, Kris Statlander, Mina Shirakawa, Toni Storm & Willow Nightingale vs. Julia Hart, Marina Shafir, Megan Bayne, Mercedes Moné, Skye Blue & Thekla (AEW BLOOD & GUTS)
- Kevin Knight vs. Kyle Fletcher (AEW DYNAMITE)
- Bandido & Brody King vs. Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood (AEW FULL GEAR)
- Kyle Fletcher vs. Mark Briscoe (AEW FULL GEAR)
- Mercedes Moné vs. Red Velvet (ROH FINAL BATTLE)
- Athena vs. Persephone (ROH FINAL BATTLE)
- Claudio Castagnoli, Jon Moxley, Marina Shafir, Matthew Jackson, Nicholas Jackson & Wheeler Yuta vs. Katsuyori Shibata, Kenny Omega, Powerhouse Hobbs, Samoa Joe, Swerve Strickland & Willow Nightingale (ANARCHY IN THE ARENA, AEW DOUBLE OR NOTHING)
FINAL THOUGHTS: It was a pretty fantastic year for AEW and Ring of Honor — and looking at this list, it's clear that Konosuke Takeshita, Kyle Fletcher, and Bandido — along with "Speedball" Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight — are the future of men's professional wrestling.
It was also an incredible year for women's wrestling, with "Timeless" Toni Storm & Mariah May taking part in one of the biggest and best storylines of the year, while TBS Champion Mercedes Moné traveled the world collecting titles and having memorable matches with Kris Statlander, Athena, Toni Storm, Willow Nightingale, Jamie Hayter, and Red Velvet.
Overall, AEW ALL IN: TEXAS & AEW DOUBLE OR NOTHING are my picks for PPV of the year, while AEW DYNAMITE SPRING BREAKTHRU (4-16-25) and AEW DYNAMITE BLOOD & GUTS (11-12-25) are my picks for best television broadcasts — you can watch them on HBO MAX if interested!
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