As WWE Evolution — the company’s second-ever all-women’s show— came to a close on Sunday night, two primary sentiments emerged both on social media and on the broadcast’s airwaves: “Wow, what a show.” And, “what took so long?”
After all, it had been seven years since the original Evolution, which took place amid Ronda Rousey’s first run in the company and — coincidentally or not — ahead of WWE’s first show in Saudi Arabia in which women weren’t permitted to perform (that has since changed). And while the 2018 version of Evolution was well-received in its own right, the 2025 edition showed just how much WWE’s women’s division has grown in the seven years since.
Rather than heavily relying on legends, developmental talent and part-timers to help fill out the card, this year’s Evolution primarily featured female performers who are on WWE’s airwaves every week. And considering the immediate positive feedback the show received with ratings aggregate website Cagematch.net grading it an 8.78 out of 10, it seemed only natural that fans and even WWE broadcasters would call for the all-women’s show to become an annual part of WWE’s schedule.
Not so fast, however, says WWE chief content officer Paul “Triple” H Levesque, who is in charge of the company’s creative. Taking the podium for a post-show press conference, the WWE legend had nothing but praise for Sunday’s show, but stopped short of committing to it becoming a yearly event.
“As we move forward, we will see. I don’t want to say it’s yearly, it’s not yearly,” Levesque said. “I think we see what that demand is for it. Because as the demand for the women grows across the board every day, it becomes less about having their own show and more about — that’s the equality, is that it’s all there… but if it works, we’ll definitely go down that road again. I think it’s a ‘we shall see.'”
To Levesque’s point, it’s not as if women are difficult to find on WWE programming these days. Oftentimes, episodes of WWE Raw and SmackDown include multiple segments and/or matches dedicated to the women’s division and it’s hardly uncommon for shows to be main evented by its female talent.
On the other hand, however, there’s something to be said about a show like Evolution, which places an even stronger spotlight on WWE’s women and just how far the division has come since the days of the Divas division and bra and panties matches.
Based on Levesque’s comments, it sounds like WWE will evaluate how Sunday’s show performed and go from there. But if fan feedback is one of the factors taken into consideration, the decision should be a no-brainer.