NXT The Great American Bash (2025)

The 2025 Great American Bash, also promoted as The Great American Bash: Atlanta, was a professional wrestling livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 13th Great American Bash under the WWE banner, the sixth annual produced specifically for its developmental brand NXT, and the 27th Great American Bash event overall. The event took place on July 12, 2025, at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia; the last time that The Great American Bash was in Georgia was in 1992. It had a special start time of 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time and was the first Great American Bash to broadcast on Netflix in international markets. This event was also the first Great American Bash to feature a wrestler from WWE's partner promotion, Pro Wrestling Noah.

Five matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Jordynne Grace and Blake Monroe defeated Fatal Influence (Jacy Jayne and Fallon Henley), which was Monroe's televised WWE in-ring debut. In another prominent match, Ethan Page defeated Ricky Saints in a Falls Count Anywhere match to retain the NXT North American Championship.

Production

Background

The Great American Bash is a professional wrestling event established in 1985. Following WWE's acquisition of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in March 2001,[2] the promotion revived the event as their own annual pay-per-view (PPV) event in 2004,[3] which continued until 2009. Following this 2009 event, The Great American Bash was discontinued as a PPV. In 2012, WWE revived the event to be held as a special episode of SmackDown but was again discontinued. In 2020, WWE again revived the event, this time for the developmental brand NXT as an annual television special of the NXT program until the 2023 event, which aired via WWE's livestreaming platforms.[4] It was then again a television special of NXT in 2024.[5]

On May 27, 2025, it was announced that the 13th Great American Bash under the WWE banner, the sixth annual for NXT, and the 27th overall, would be held as a livestreaming event on Saturday, July 12, 2025, at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia.[6] In addition to Peacock in the United States, the event was available livestream on Netflix in most international markets and the WWE Network in a select few countries that had not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marked the first Great American Bash to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January in those areas.[7] Beginning with Halloween Havoc in 2024, all major NXT events are branded solely with the WWE logo instead of the NXT logo; The Great American Bash broke this tradition as it has the NXT logo in addition to the WWE logo for aesthetic purposes. The event had a special start time of 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, putting it head-to-head against All In, the biggest annual PPV event produced by rival company All Elite Wrestling.[6]

Storylines

The event included five 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.[8][9]

On the May 20 episode of NXT, Jasper Troy attacked NXT Champion Oba Femi,[10] which would lead to a title match between both men on the June 10 episode, where Femi retained the championship.[11] The following week, Pro Wrestling Noah's Yoshiki Inamura stated he would be coming after Femi's championship, and on the June 24 episode, Femi said he wanted more competition and demanded an opponent. Inamura answered the challenge and set his sights on the title. After the confrontation, Troy attacked Inamura, before staring down Femi, making it clear that he would go after his championship once again. Later that night, a match between Inamura and Troy was scheduled for the July 1 episode, where the winner would challenge Femi for the title at The Great American Bash.[12]

Event

Preliminary matches

The event began with Jasper Troy taking on Je'Von Evans. During the match, Evans performed a Frog Splash on Troy for a nearfall. In the end, Evans countered a Black Hole attempt by Troy into a roll-up to win the match.

The second match saw Sol Ruca defend the NXT Women's North American Championship against Izzi Dame. Before the match, Zaria and Tatum Paxley brawled, allowing Dame to perform a powerbomb on Ruca, who placed her foot on the rope to void the pin. Ruca performed a Spear on Dame, but Paxley placed Dame's foot on the rope before being taken out by Zaria. Ruca then performed the Sol Snatcher on Dame to retain the title.

The third match was Ethan Page defending the NXT North American Championship against Ricky Saints in a Falls Count Anywhere match. Throughout the match, Page and Saints fought all over the arena and used different weapons. Jasper Troy performed a Black Hole Slam on Saints. Saints performed a DDT on Page onto the stage for a nearfall. Page performed Ego's Edge on Saints through tables and pinned him to retain the title.

Up next was the TNA Slammiversary contract signing between Mike Santana, Joe Hendry, and TNA World Champion Trick Williams. After the participants cut promos on who would walk out the champion, Santana and Hendry sent Williams through the announce table. Afterwards, Williams was attacked by DarkState.

In the penultimate match, Oba Femi defended the NXT Championship against Yoshiki Inamura (accompanied by Josh Briggs). During the match, Inamura attempted a Frog Splash on Femi, who recovered and sent Inamura into the referee. Briggs then struck Femi with the NXT title belt and Inamura later performed a Frog Splash on Femi, but the referee was still incapacitated. Inamura performed a Blue Thunder Bomb on Femi for a nearfall. In the end, Femi performed Fall from Grace on Inamura to retain the title.

Before the main event, NXT General Manager Ava told Trick Williams that he would team with Joe Hendry and Mike Santana against DarkState on the following episode of NXT.

Main event

In the main event, Jordynne Grace and Blake Monroe took on Fatal Influence (Jacy Jayne and Fallon Henley, accompanied by Jazmyn Nyx). In the climax, TNA Knockouts Champion Masha Slamovich attacked Nyx before Jayne and Henley performed a double-team move on Monroe, which was broken up by Grace. Monroe kicked out of a pinning attempt by Jayne, and while Grace laid out Henley outside the ring, Monroe performed a Sweeping DDT on Jayne and pinned her to win the match.

promotion	WWE
brand	NXT
date	July 12, 2025
attendance	768‡R1R‡
venue	Center Stage
city	Atlanta, Georgia
wwenlast	Night of Champions
wwennext	Saturday Night's Main Event XL
event	The Great American Bash
lastevent2	2024
event2	NXT major events
lastevent3	Battleground
nextevent3	Heatwave