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WWE television special
| WWE: New Year's Evil | |||
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 Promotional poster featuring Tony D'Angelo, Oba Femi, Giulia, Roxanne Perez, and Trick Williams | |||
| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | NXT | ||
| Date | January 7, 2025 | ||
| City | Los Angeles, California | ||
| Venue | Shrine Expo Hall | ||
| NXT special episodes chronology | |||
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| NXT: New Year's Evil chronology | |||
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The 2025 WWE: New Year's Evil is the fifth annual NXT: New Year's Evil professional wrestling television special produced by WWE, and sixth New Year's Evil overall. It will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's NXT brand division. The event will take place on January 7, 2025, at Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles, California and will air live as a special episode of WWE's weekly television series NXT. This is the first NXT television special to use the WWE branding.
Production
Background
New Year's Evil is a professional wrestling television special currently produced by WWE held around New Year's. It was originally broadcast as a special episode of World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) Monday Nitro on December 27, 1999; WWE acquired WCW in 2001. After 21 years since that WCW event, WWE revived New Year's Evil for its developmental brand NXT as a special episode of NXT on January 6, 2021, and it has since been held annually in early January. The 2025 edition is set to take place on January 7, 2025, at the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles, California.
Storylines
The card will consist of matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the NXT brand, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television program, NXT, and the supplementary online streaming show, Level Up.
At NXT Deadline Giulia won the Women's Iron Survivor Challenge to earn an NXT Women's Championship match against Roxanne Perez, with the match taking place at New Year's Evil.
On the November 19, 2024 episode of NXT, Eddy Thorpe participated in an Iron Survivor Challenge qualifier where he lost to NXT Tag Team Champion Nathan Frazer after being distracted from the NXT tag team division brawling outside the ring. Two weeks later, Thorpe won a fatal four-way last chance match to qualify for the Iron Survivor Challenge at NXT Deadline. However, he was later found attacked backstage and was ruled out for Deadline. At the event, a returning Oba Femi would take Thorpe's place, and win the Men's Iron Survivor Challenge to earn an NXT Championship match against Trick Williams at New Year's Evil. Three days later on the December 10 episode, Thorpe confronted Williams and Femi, stating that Femi was the one who attacked him. Thorpe also demanded a title shot, which Williams agreed. Upon signing the title match contract, Thorpe revealed to NXT general manager Ava that he staged his own attack to ease his way into an NXT Championship match. The title match on the December 17 episode ended in a double pinfall and Williams retained his title. On the following week, Thorpe disputed the result of the title match, and Williams stated that he would defend the championship in a triple threat match at New Year's Evil, which was made official by Ava.
On the October 29 episode of NXT, Lexis King faced No Quarter Catch Crew's Charlie Dempsey for the NXT Heritage Cup in British Round Rules. King was accompanied by Dempsey's father, William Regal, as his cornerman. During the match, Regal passed his signature brass knuckles for King to use against Dempsey but King refused, wanting to win the Cup on his own merit and lost the match 0–2. On the December 24 episode of NXT (taped December 17), King, again with Regal as his cornerman, faced Dempsey in a rematch for the NXT Heritage Cup. Regal again passed the brass knuckles to King but King refused. Regal then punched King to which the brass knuckles fell into the ring. The referee disqualified Dempsey and crowned King the new NXT Heritage Cup Champion after he saw Dempsey with the brass knuckles and assumed that Dempsey used it on King. However, due to a grey area in the British Rounds Rules on whether the Cup can change hands via disqualification of the reigning champion, Ava ordered King to give the Cup back to Dempsey and announced that they will face each other in a one-fall match for the Cup at New Year's Evil.
Matches
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References
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- Defelice, Robert (October 29, 2024). "Lexis King Refuses To Use William Regal's Brass Knuckles, Charlie Dempsey Retains NXT Heritage Cup | Fightful News". Fightful. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
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