Worlds Collide: Las Vegas 2025: WWE and AAA Find the Fun Before Dirty Dom Takes the Crown

Worlds Collide opens by throwing away the speed limit. Eight wrestlers rotate through dives, headscissors, standing flashes of lucha technique and enough motion that the match occasionally resembles somebody fast-forwarding a perfectly normal wrestling show. The useful part is that the chaos still produces identifiable personalities. La Parka dances. Mascarita Sagrada makes the size differential into an advantage instead of a joke. Del Toro and Wilde attack their minutes like men who know this setting gives them more room than weekly WWE television usually does.

The final stretch is the obvious attraction, with bodies flying outside until Sagrada spins Mini Abismo Negro into the winning cradle. The Wrestling Observer gave the match 4.5 stars, Cagematch currently sits at 7.27, Steve Cook went 3.5 stars and Thomas Hall graded it B. WrestleFile lands at A- / 8.7. It is not deep, but depth would almost be a design flaw. The job is to make the audience grin before anybody has time to check the clock.

Natalya and Faby Apache do the smartest possible thing after the opener: almost none of that. They work from the mat, throw heavier strikes, lean on submissions and treat nine minutes like enough time to have a wrestling match rather than audition for a highlight package. The slower pace initially feels like somebody opened a window after a fireworks show, but it becomes a useful contrast once the crowd adjusts.

Apache's offense has weight, and Natalya's more aggressive presentation helps a familiar WWE wrestler feel slightly less familiar in an AAA setting. The finish is modest, with Natalya countering a pinning exchange rather than producing a giant closing move, and the post-match scuffle keeps the rivalry alive. The Observer went 3.25 stars, while Cagematch is much cooler at 5.28. Cook gave 2.5 stars and Hall B-minus. WrestleFile takes the middle at B- / 7.2. It is sound professional wrestling with no real reason to become anybody's favorite match of the night.

The tag-title match enters with a handicap that is not part of the stipulation: Xavier Woods was supposed to be here. Grayson Waller replaces him, which removes the novelty of New Day challenging for AAA gold but adds a performer perfectly comfortable being obnoxious in somebody else's house. Waller and Kofi work a straightforward control segment, Psycho Clown supplies the emotional comeback, and Pagano remains the kind of wrestler who can make ordinary movement look slightly dangerous for everyone involved.

The champions retain after the match accelerates into dives, destroyers and Psycho Clown literally weaponizing his own presentation by tearing at the mask. Cagematch currently gives it 6.19, Cook 3 stars, Hall B-minus, while the Observer was colder at 2.25. WrestleFile lands at B- / 7.3. The wrestling is better than the Observer number suggests, but the post-match Wyatt Sicks attack becomes the thing most viewers will remember, which tells the story of the match's ceiling.

This match requires a willingness to accept that a stuffed iguana can become a tactical variable. Once that treaty is signed, the rest is easy. Finn Bálor plays the straight man trapped inside increasingly stupid circumstances, Roxanne Perez provides the sharper wrestling, Lola Vice supplies strikes and momentum, and Mr. Iguana turns every interaction with Yesca and Demonito into a crowd-participation exercise.

There is a real match under the comedy, particularly when Vice and Perez are paired, but nobody is pretending technical excellence is the assignment. The final sequence leans fully into the premise before Vice catches Perez with the spinning backfist. Cagematch sits at 5.89, the Observer at 2.5 stars, Cook was warmer at 3.25 and Hall gave it C-plus. WrestleFile agrees with Hall at C+ / 6.8. The match succeeds because it knows exactly how unserious it is. Asking it to become more serious would miss the point; asking it to become better wrestling would not.

Four-way matches often waste the opening minutes arranging furniture. This one appears to have misplaced the furniture. Dr. Wagner, Dragon Lee, Ethan Page and JD McDonagh have less than ten minutes, so they skip directly to collisions, dives and combinations that would normally be saved for the final third. Page is useful as the heavier interrupter, McDonagh is willing to be folded into unpleasant shapes, Lee provides the aerial urgency and Wagner wrestles like a champion who understands that surviving chaos is itself a form of control.

The pace is relentless without becoming unreadable, and Wagner's Swanton into the Wagner Driver gives the champion a definitive finish rather than a stolen pin. Cagematch currently rates it 7.70, the highest matchguide score on the card. The Observer went 4 stars, Cook 3.75 and Hall B. WrestleFile lands slightly warmer at A- / 8.8 because the economy matters. The match does everything a four-way should do and leaves before the format's usual bad habits can arrive.

Dominik Mysterio and Vikingo begin with the outline of a normal title match and then watch the plot eat it alive. Vikingo supplies the speed, springboards and spectacular body control. Dominik slows him, cheats when convenient and benefits from a crowd that has decided the supposed villain is the night's chosen son. That contradiction gives the match heat even before Judgment Day appears.

Then everybody appears. Finn Bálor and JD McDonagh interfere. Dragon Lee responds. Rey Mysterio arrives. El Grande Americano removes a referee. A loaded mask becomes the decisive weapon. Dominik finally lands the frog splash and leaves as AAA Mega Champion while still holding WWE's Intercontinental title. Cagematch is at 7.16 and the Observer 3.5 stars; both 411Mania reviewers were broadly positive, while WrestleRant thought the chemistry and pace disappointed. WrestleFile lands at B+ / 8.0. The crowd, stakes and finish make it memorable. The interference prevents the match from proving what the two wrestlers could have done without a small convention taking place around them.