The 2025 Evolution is an upcoming women's

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(PPV) and

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produced by

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. It will be the second

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event and is scheduled to take place on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at the

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, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions. This will be the first Evolution and the first all-women's professional wrestling event to broadcast on both

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and

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, and the first Evolution since the inaugural 2018 event seven years prior.

Production

Background

In October 2018, the American

promotion

held an all-

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event called

. This was WWE's first

(PPV) and

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

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, the latter of which was dissolved in 2022. Over the next few years, there had been various comments from people within WWE on a potential second

event, with support from a number of WWE female performers. Before wrestler

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'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". In June 2021, former WWE wrestler

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also stated that former Head of WWE Talent Relations, Mark Carano, informed her that there would not be another all-female event, although in a conference call that same month,

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said that a second Evolution was possible, "but it's not a must-have at the moment". After another few years, a report emerged on March 6, 2025, that WWE were in fact planning to hold a second Evolution event. ''Bodyslam.net'' stated that the company were aiming to hold the event on July 5, 2025, at the

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, but noted that while the event was in the works, the schedule was tentative. On May 12, 2025, a new report from ''

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'' stated that the company was now looking to hold the event a week later from

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during the same weekend as Saturday Night's Main Event XL. WWE then confirmed this with an announcement during

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on May 24, with the second all-women's Evolution event scheduled for Sunday, July 13 at Atlanta's

; Saturday Night's Main Event XL will be held the day before at the same venue, while NXT will hold The Great American Bash on the afternoon of ''

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'' at the nearby Center Stage. Evolution will be held on the same night as the third part of

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, emanating from the nearby

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, causing concerns on attendance and viewership. In addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide, the event will be available to livestream on

in the United States,

in most international markets, and the

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in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Evolution, and the first all-women's professional wrestling event, to livestream on Peacock and Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the services in March 2021 in the United States and in January 2025 in the aforementioned international markets, respectively.

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brands, while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' NXT''. On the June 10 episode of ''NXT'', after

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successfully defended the

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, NXT General Manager Ava announced that on the following episode, there would be four matches, with each winner advancing to a

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on the June 24 episode, where the winner would face Jayne for the championship at Evolution. The fatal four-way was won by

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Matches

NXT Women's Championship Evolution Eliminator (2025)

References

External links

Official website
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