We take one step closer to naming the best WWE women’s match of the year today as we highlight Nos. 6 and 5 in the top WWE women’s matches of 2025. These two matches showcase the full spectrum of what women’s wrestling delivered this year. One match represents the kind of big, brutal, high-stakes spectacle that only WWE can produce, while the other stands as a masterclass in pure, elite in-ring wrestling.
The women’s division in 2025 was dynamic, and together these matches highlight just how fiercely competitive and creatively rich the landscape has become. These matches represent more than just great wrestling — they represent era-defining wrestling.
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6. Bianca Belair vs. Liv Morgan vs. Roxanne Perez vs. Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss vs. Naomi – Elimination Chamber Match — Elimination Chamber
This year’s Rumble, Money in the Bank, and WarGames matches were a mix of messy and disappointing, but the Elimination Chamber delivered in a way that made up for all of them. In fact, this was the best women’s Chamber match WWE has ever produced. From the melodrama of Jade Cargill’s return to Bianca Belair whipping Liv Morgan into oblivion, this match became one of the high-water marks of sports entertainment for the division in 2025.
Jade’s attack in late 2024 and her subsequent return before the start of the Chamber match was the soap opera story of the year in WWE. Bianca and Naomi’s tears, Naomi’s heel turn, Jade’s retribution — it all started here the moment Jade’s music hit after months away. She immediately set her sights on Naomi (not Liv!), revealing her as the attacker who sent her through the car windshield. Jade’s return was so fierce that her beatdown led to Naomi being stretchered out, with us saying goodbye to the Glow for good. And who can forget Bianca being tortured inside her pod, only to unleash every ounce of anger and frustration in one of the best women’s gimmick matches we’ve ever had.
But the match wasn’t just about the big bang opening. Every woman brought the fight inside the steel structure. Roxanne Perez showed out in her first major moment on the main roster. Alexa Bliss gave us another glimpse of her renewed in-ring form. Bayley grounded the action with veteran poise. And Liv Morgan leaned fully into her hardcore style as she and Bianca tore the house down in the explosive final stretch, with Liv dragging Bianca by her braid straight into the steel only to eat one of Bianca’s most vicious hair whips from the top of the pod. Rivalries boiled over, alliances formed and crumbled in seconds, and every elimination felt like it carried weight.
This match was perfect chaos from beginning to end. By the time it was over, Liv looked like she’d been hit by a truck and Bianca had punched her ticket to a WrestleMania Women’s World Championship match.
5. Stephanie Vaquer vs. Iyo Sky — Women’s World Championship — Wrestlepalooza
The third — and definitive — match in Stephanie Vaquer and Iyo Sky’s 2025 trilogy, this showdown stole the show at the inaugural WrestlePalooza. Highly technical, wildly creative, and dripping with urgency, it felt like the perfect representation of the sea change in the women’s division this year. Iyo and Stephanie facing off symbolized what WWE became in 2025: an epicenter of women’s wrestling stocked with world-traveled, highly skilled performers who compete at an elite level without compromising what makes them unique.
All year long, these two wrestled at a pace and level of precision that few could match, and this match was the culmination of that chemistry. The exchanges were crisp, the pacing flowed effortlessly, and the counters — sharp, inventive, and expertly timed — produced multiple standout moments. It felt like a true clash of equals: Vaquer rising to every moment while Iyo reminded the world why she’s one of the best to ever lace a pair of boots. As the match progressed, both women wrestled with increasing desperation, and the smart, layered psychology made every shift in momentum feel earned.
The dueling submission sequences showcased both women’s ring savvy, as did Stephanie’s relentless targeting of Iyo’s legs and Iyo’s refusal to break under pressure. Iyo’s selling was phenomenal — from subtle grimaces to the outright collapse of her base — and Vaquer worked Iyo’s legs with cold precision. Iyo’s choice to pull down both knee braces in desperation, trying to add more impact to her offense even as her legs were failing her, was one of the best bits of match-driven storytelling all year. She threw everything she had at Vaquer in the closing stretch, including her patented corner knees, knowing every strike would hurt herself as much as her opponent.
But in the end, it was Stephanie who countered the Over-the-Moonsault for the second time and followed up with a pitch-perfect Spiral Tap to win the match clean. The victory crowned her the new Women’s World Champion — a fitting result for a match that paired the division’s most established star against its fastest-rising one. It wasn’t a passing of the torch so much as a sharing of it: Iyo finally got the big non-Rhea title match she’d needed, and Stephanie Vaquer officially put the exclamation point on her rise to the top of WWE’s women’s division.
Check back tomorrow for Nos. 4 and 3 as we get even closer to revealing the No. 1 match of 2025.