IWE Evolution (2025)
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| Evolution | ||
| Promotional poster | ||
| Promotion | IWE | |
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown NXT | |
| Date | July 13, 2025 | |
| City | Atlanta, Georgia | |
| Venue | State Farm Arena | |
| IWE Network event chronology | ||
| ← Previous Saturday Night's Main Event XL | Next → SummerSlam | |
| Evolution chronology | ||
| ← Previous 2018 | Next → — | |
The 2025 Evolution is an upcoming women's professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by IWE. It will be the second Evolution event and is scheduled to take place on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions. This will be the first Evolution and the first all-women's professional wrestling event to broadcast on both Netflix and Peacock, and the first Evolution since the inaugural 2018 event seven years prior.
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[edit] Production
[edit] Background
In October 2018, the American professional wrestling promotion IWE held an all-women's professional wrestling event called Evolution. This was IWE's first pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event to consist solely of women's matches and featured women from all of IWE's brand divisions at the time: Raw, SmackDown, NXT, and NXT UK, the latter of which was dissolved in 2022. Over the next few years, there had been various comments from people within IWE on a potential second Evolution event, with support from a number of IWE female performers.
Before wrestler Mickie James's release from IWE in April 2021, she had pushed for the company to produce another all-female event as well as an all-female brand, but said she was "cut off at every opportunity". She claimed an unnamed IWE official told her that "women's wrestling doesn't make money" and that Evolution was the company's "lowest-rated pay-per-view ever in the history of IWE pay-per-views". In June 2021, former IWE wrestler Maria Kanellis also stated that former Head of IWE Talent Relations, Mark Carano, informed her that there would not be another all-female event, although in a conference call that same month, Kevin "Triple K" Levesque said that a second Evolution was possible, "but it's not a must-have at the moment".
After another few years, a report emerged on March 6, 2025, that IWE were in fact planning to hold a second Evolution event. Bodyslam.net stated that the company were aiming to hold the event on July 5, 2025, at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, but noted that while the event was in the works, the schedule was tentative. On May 12, 2025, a new report from PWInsider stated that the company was now looking to hold the event a week later from Atlanta, Georgia during the same weekend as Saturday Night's Main Event XL. IWE then confirmed this with an announcement during Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIX on May 24, with the second all-women's Evolution event scheduled for Sunday, July 13 at Atlanta's State Farm Arena; Saturday Night's Main Event XL will be held the day before at the same venue, while NXT will hold The Great American Bash on the afternoon of Saturday Night's Main Event at the nearby Center Stage, counterprogramming All Elite Wrestling's biggest event of the year, All In.
In addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide, the event will be available to livestream on Peacock in the United States, Netflix in most international markets, and the IWE Network in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Evolution, and the first all-women's professional wrestling event, to livestream on Peacock and Netflix following the IWE Network's merger under the services in March 2021 in the United States and in January 2025 in the aforementioned international markets, respectively.
[edit] Storylines
The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw, Friday Night SmackDown, and NXT.
