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| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | NXT Raw | ||
| Date | February 15, 2025 | ||
| City | Washington, D.C. | ||
| Venue | CareFirst Arena | ||
| Attendance | 3,849[1] | ||
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The 2025Vengeance Day was aprofessional wrestlingevent produced byWWE. It was the fifth annualVengeance Day event held for the promotion'sdevelopmental brandNXT, and the 13th Vengeance overall, and it featured some wrestlers from theRaw brand. The event aired via WWE'slivestreaming platforms and took place on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at theCareFirst Arena inWashington, D.C. This was the first Vengeance, as well as NXT's first major event, to livestream onNetflix in most markets outside the United States.
Six matches were contested at the event. In the main event,Giulia defeatedBayley,Roxanne Perez, andCora Jade in afatal four-way match to retain theNXT Women's Championship. In other prominent matches,Ethan Page defeatedJe'Von Evans,Eddy Thorpe defeatedTrick Williams in astrap match and in the opening bout,Stephanie Vaquer defeatedFallon Henley to win theNXT Women's North American Championship. The event also marked the debut of DarkState, featuringDion Lennox, Cutler James, Saquon Shugars, and Osiris Griffin, as well asJordynne Grace's first appearance in NXT, now as an official member of the WWE roster, and a member of the NXT roster.
Vengeance was originally established as aprofessional wrestlingpay-per-view (PPV)event forWWE in 2001 and it was held annually until 2007, followed by a one-off event in 2011. Since its revival in 2021, it has been held annually in February for WWE'sdevelopmental brandNXT under the title Vengeance Day, a reference to the event taking place on or aroundValentine's Day.[2] On January 7, 2025, NXT's fifth annual Vengeance Day event, and 13th Vengeance overall, was announced to be held on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at theCareFirst Arena inWashington, D.C.;[3] the arena was formerly the Entertainment and Sports Arena until February 6, 2025.[4] In addition toPeacock in the United States, the event will also be available tolivestream onNetflix in most international markets and theWWE Network in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Vengeance to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas. Beginning withHalloween Havoc in 2024, all major NXT events are branded solely with the WWE logo instead of the NXT logo, marking the first Vengeance Day event to just use the promotion's logo, as well as the first event in the Vengeance chronology to do so since the 2011 event.[5][3]
| Role: | Name: |
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| Commentators | Vic Joseph |
| Corey Graves | |
| Booker T | |
| Spanish commentators | Marcelo Rodríguez |
| Jerry Soto | |
| Ring announcer | Mike Rome |
| Referees | Adrian Butler |
| Chip Danning | |
| Dallas Irvin | |
| Derek Sanders | |
| Felix Fernandez | |
| Interviewer | Sarah Schreiber |
| Pre-show panel | Megan Morant |
| Sam Roberts |
The event included matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the NXT brand, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television program,NXT.[6][7]
On the January 28 episode ofNXT,Raw'sA-Town Down Under (Austin Theory andGrayson Waller) hosted a special edition ofThe Grayson Waller Effect with the newNXT ChampionOba Femi as guest. Theory and Waller said they appeared to see if Femi was "worth the hype." Femi retaliated and said he has accomplished more in a shorter amount of time than both Theory and Waller combined. Afterwards, Femi declared that he would defend the title against either of the two at Vengeance Day. NXT General Manager Ava took issue with Femi declaring his opponents, but announced a triple threat match against both Theory and Waller for Vengeance Day.[8]
AtNew Year's Evil,Giulia defeatedRoxanne Perez to win theNXT Women's Championship.[9] One week later, Perez addressed the fans, seemingly to announce her departure from NXT before being interrupted bySmackDown'sBayley, who tried giving Perez advice to no avail. A brawl ensued between the two women as the show went off the air.[10] During this time, Bayley had been transferred to the Raw brand as part of WWE'stransfer window. Bayley appeared onNXT the following week to show gratitude to the fans before being interrupted by Giulia, who showed her respect to Bayley. Perez and her ally,Cora Jade, interrupted and insulted them as a brawl ensued between the two teams.[11] One week later, the two teams faced each other in atag team match, which Giulia and Bayley won after the latter pinned Jade. Later that night, when NXT General ManagerAva was about to announce Giulia's Vengeance Day opponent, she was cut off by Perez and Jade, with Perez saying Bayley doesn’t deserve a title shot since she didn’t get her title rematch yet, and stating that it was Jade's fault they lost the match earlier in the show. After that, Ava announced that Giulia would defend the title against both Bayley and Perez in atriple threat match at Vengeance Day, much to Jade's dismay.[8] A week later, Jade attacked both Giulia and Bayley, and tried to hit Perez. This led to a match between Bayley and Jade on the February 11 episode, where Jade defeated Bayley after interference from Perez, who wore Bayley's previous "hugger" gimmick from 2015 to 2019. After the match, Ava announced that the NXT Women's Championship match would now be afatal four-way match between Giulia, Bayley, Perez, and Jade.[12]
At New Year's Evil,Stephanie Vaquer won a fatal four-way match to become the #1 contender for theNXT Women's North American Championship, held byFallon Henley. Later that night, however,Shotzi pinned Henley in asix-woman tag team match.[9] Shotzi and Vaquer argued over who should get the match first. A match between the two was scheduled for the following week, which Shotzi won after interference from Henley and herFatal Influence stablemates,Jacy Jayne andJazmyn Nyx.[10] Two weeks later, Henley defeated Shotzi to retain the title. After the match, Vaquer confronted Henley, and it was announced that Henley would defend the title against Vaquer at Vengeance Day.[8]
Ever since losing the NXT Championship and aNXT North American Championship match in 2024,Ethan Page went into an emotional turmoil and became depressed. On the December 17 episode ofNXT, Page came to the ring stating that he deserved all the hate he was getting from the fans and that he had lost his smile. Afterwards, he was interrupted byJe'Von Evans, who praised him and said that Page deserved to be where he is now. Page said Evans was right and that he shouldn't worry about losing his smile, but rather take away Evans smile, prompting Page to attack Evans, crushing his jaw with a steel chair.[13] Two weeks later, Page defeated Evans' tag team partnerCedric Alexander and crushed Alexander's hand with a toolbox.[14] On the January 14 episode, Page defeatedDante Chen and crushed Chen's leg with the steel step. Evans returned to attack Page but was knocked down by Page punching his injured jaw.[10] On the February 4 episode, NXT General Manager Ava decided to suspend Evans so that he wouldn't end up getting even more injured, but Page said that Evans should be "punished" by facing him. Ava then stated that they could face each other at Vengeance Day, but only if Evans was medically cleared.[15] On the next episode, Evans was cleared to compete, but Ava made him sign a waiver that WWE wouldn't be responsible for any damage to Evans. After signing the term, Ava reluctantly made the match official.[12]
In July 2024, it was announced thatJosh Briggs would be one of two NXT representatives (the other beingNo Quarter Catch Crew'sTavion Heights) to enterPro Wrestling Noah'sN-1 Victory tournament.[16] After his excursion to Noah, Briggs formed a tag team with Noah'sYoshiki Inamura, who Briggs defeated during his time at Noah, and they set their sights onAxiom andNathan Frazer'sNXT Tag Team Championship. On the February 4 episode ofNXT, Frazer told Briggs and Inamura to find someone to beat to prove they deserve a title shot. Briggs challenged Hank Waller and Tank Ledger while Inamura challenged No Quarter Catch Crew (Heights andMyles Borne), which prompted NXT General Manager Ava to schedule atriple threat tag team match for the next episode.[15] After Briggs and Inamura won the match, Axiom and Frazer announced that they would defend the title against Briggs and Inamura at Vengeance Day.[12]
On the December 3, 2024, episode ofNXT,Eddy Thorpe won afatal four-waylast chance match to qualify for theIron Survivor Challenge atDeadline. However, he was later found attacked backstage[17] and was ruled out for Deadline.[18] Two days after Deadline on the December 10 episode ofNXT, Thorpe confronted NXT ChampionTrick Williams and demanded a title shot, which Williams agreed. Upon signing the title match contract, Thorpe revealed to NXT General Manager Ava that he staged his own attack to ease his way into an NXT Championship match, turningheel in the process.[19] The title match on the following week ended in a double pinfall and Williams retained his title.[13] At New Year's Evil on January 7, Williams defended his NXT Championship in a triple threat match against Thorpe and the Iron Survivor Challenge winner Oba Femi, where Femi won to become the new NXT Champion.[9] On the February 4 episode ofNXT, Femi and Williams lost to Raw's A-Town Down Under Austin Theory and Grayson Waller in a tag team match after Thorpe whipped Williams with a leather strap behind the referee's back. After the match, Thorpe continued to brutally whip Williams.[15] On the following week, Thorpe challenged Williams to astrap match at Vengeance Day, which was accepted by Williams.[12]
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times[21] | ||
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| 1 | Stephanie Vaquer defeatedFallon Henley (c) (withJacy Jayne andJazmyn Nyx) bypinfall | Singles match for theNXT Women's North American Championship[20] | 15:01 | ||
| 2 | Nathan Frazer andAxiom (c) defeatedJosh Briggs andYoshiki Inamura bypinfall | Tag team match for theNXT Tag Team Championship[20] | 10:24 | ||
| 3 | Eddy Thorpe defeatedTrick Williams bypinfall | Strap match[20] | 10:58 | ||
| 4 | Ethan Page defeatedJe'Von Evans bypinfall | Singles match[20] | 12:00 | ||
| 5 | Oba Femi (c) defeatedAustin Theory andGrayson Waller bypinfall | Triple threat match for theNXT Championship[20] | 13:12 | ||
| 6 | Giulia (c) defeatedBayley,Roxanne Perez, andCora Jade bypinfall | Fatal four-way match for theNXT Women's Championship[20] | 18:31 | ||
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