The 2025 Vengeance Day is an upcoming professional wrestlingevent produced by WWE. It will be the fifth annual Vengeance Day event held for the promotion's developmental brandNXT, and the 13th Vengeance overall as well as the first not to use the NXT logo since 2011. The event will air via WWE's livestreaming platforms and will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, D.C. This will be the first Vengeance, as well as NXT's first major event, to livestream on Netflix in most markets outside the United States.
Vengeance was originally established as a professional wrestlingpay-per-view (PPV) event for WWE 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's developmental brandNXT under the title NXT Vengeance Day, a reference to the event taking place on or around Valentine's Day.[1] On January 7, 2025, NXT's fifth annual Vengeance Day event, and 14th Vengeance overall, was announced to be held on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, D.C.[2] In addition to Peacock in the United States, the event will also be available to livestream on Netflix in most international markets and the WWE Network in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Stand & Deliver to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas. Beginning with Halloween 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.[3][2]
Storylines
The event will include matches that result 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.[4][5]
On the January 28 episode of NXT, Raw's A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory and Grayson Waller) hosted a special edition of The Grayson Waller Effect with NXT 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.[6]
At New Year's Evil on January 7, Giulia defeated Roxanne Perez to win the NXT Women's Championship.[7] One week later, Perez addressed the fans, seemingly to announce her departure from NXT before being interrupted by SmackDown's Bayley, who tried giving Perez advice to no avail. A brawl ensued between the two women as the show went off the air.[8] During this time, Bayley had been transferred to the Raw brand as part of WWE's transfer window. Bayley appeared on NXT 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.[9] One week later, the two teams faced each other in a tag team match, which Giulia and Bayley won after the latter pinned Jade. Later that night, NXT General Manager Ava announced that Giulia will defend the title against both Bayley and Perez in a triple threat match at Vengeance Day.[6]
At New Year's Evil, Stephanie Vaquer won a fatal four-way match to become the #1 contender for the NXT Women's North American Championship, held by Fallon Henley. Later that night, however, Shotzi pinned Henley in a six-woman tag team match.[7] 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 her Fatal Influence stablemates, Jacy Jayne and Jazmyn Nyx.[8] 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.[6]
