WWE Wrestlepalooza grades: Did Rhodes-McIntyre, Cena-Lesnar get above-average marks?

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  • Andreas HaleSep 21, 2025, 12:00 AM ET

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The epoch of WWE Premium Live Events (PLEs) connected ESPN Unlimited kicked disconnected with Wrestlepalooza from Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis connected Saturday.

The seventh singles gathering betwixt John Cena and Brock Lesnar started disconnected the night, and it would beryllium "The Beast Incarnate" who would predominate and pin his rival, Cena, successful stunning fashion. A caller Women's World champion was crowned, arsenic Stephanie Vaquer defeated Iyo Sky successful an fantabulous showdown.

The paper besides featured the instrumentality of erstwhile WWE Divas champion AJ Lee aft a decennary distant from the ring. She joined her husband, CM Punk, successful a mixed tag lucifer against World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins and his wife, Women's Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch. Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes headlined the lawsuit by putting his rubric connected the enactment successful a amazingly abbreviated outing against Drew McIntyre.

After each PLE, we measure the prime of each wrestling lucifer based connected effectual storytelling, in-ring show and wide entertainment. We besides people the lawsuit arsenic a whole.

Did Wrestlepalooza present connected its committedness of epic moments?


Women's World Championship: Iyo Sky vs. Stephanie Vaquer

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Stephanie Vaquer receives lasting ovation aft winning title

Stephanie Vaquer defeats Iyo Sky to go the caller champion and receives a large lasting ovation.

Result: Vaquer def. Sky by pinfall
Grade: B+

This was exceptional enactment from 2 of the champion women's wrestlers successful WWE. The archetypal fractional recovered Vaquer and Sky engaged successful a chess lucifer successful which counters reigned supreme. However, the aboriginal stages of the lucifer saw Vaquer absorption connected moving implicit Sky's knee, giving her an borderline erstwhile she needed it most. Vaquer couldn't support Sky down aft countering an Over The Moonsault and hitting the SVB. Sky swung the pendulum successful her favour with a bevy of genu strikes and a beauteous avalanche Spanish Fly. But her genu slowed her down connected her 2nd effort astatine an Over The Moonsault, which Vaquer rolled retired of the mode of and headed to the apical enactment to deed a Spinal Tap for the finish. This was a lucifer you should spell retired of your mode to see.


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