Wrestling Inc. Picks The Winners

This Saturday, chaos rains down on the Valley of the Sun (because something has to) as “WWE NXT” presents its latest premium live event, Halloween Havoc 2025! Coming at you from Prescott Valley, Arizona, the event will feature no fewer than five championship matches, including defenses from NXT Champion Ricky Saints, NXT Women’s Champion Jacy Jayne, NXT (and TNA) Tag Team Champions The Hardys (some disassembly required), NXT men’s North American Champion Ethan Page, and Zaria, defending the ladies’s North American title on behalf of her friend Sol Ruca. Moreover, Je’Von Evans and TNA X-Division Champion Leon Slater will team up against AAA stars La Parka and Mr. Iguana in an exhibition tag team match.

But which of those tag teams can be successful, and can the aforementioned champions (and in addition Zaria) retain those shiny title belts? That is what the Wrestling Inc. staff is here to provide help to discover, upfront! We expect we’ve got a reasonably good idea of what’s going to go down on October twenty fifth, as evidenced by the high percentages of our collective decisions — though there’s one fairly glaring exception. And naturally, we have been unsuitable before (though not terribly often). Who do we predict will emerge from the desert with gold and glory in hand? Let’s get to the picks!

Je’Von Evans is the most important character of “WWE NXT.” Full stop. He may not at all times win, he may not at all times be within the most important event, but he’s at all times there, often with a legend or veteran telling him how good he’s. He might as well recruit himself right into a temporal pincer movement to stop existential armageddon, because he’s The Protagonist.

I’d like to inform you that it matters that Leon Slater is his tag partner, and it would, but ultimately, Je’Von Evans could possibly be wrestling with the highlight Vince McMahon called “God” and he’d still find his way out the opposite end. We’re currently on the road to Stand and Deliver, and that road is Je’Von Evans’s to walk. Oba Femi has been dethroned and Ricky Saints is bickering with Trick Williams over who the actual face of the brand is. Within the absence of a dominant champion, Je’Von has taken the role of “Face of NXT” within the vacuum. 

Mr. Iguana and La Parka are popular enough that it is often possible they sneak out the win, but they’ve felt like little greater than enhancement to the celebs on this AAA/WWE era, and the bulk currently think that they can be a stepping stone on the road to a rematch between Slater and Evans, and Evans’s eventual rise to the NXT title.

Written by Ross Berman

North American Champion Ethan Page has been locked in a feud with AAA’s El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. for the reason that pair competed in a fatal four-way match for the AAA Latin American Championship, also involving Dragon Lee and JD McDonagh, back at Worlds Collide in September. This can be Wagner’s first time difficult for the NA title, but we sadly do not have much faith within the AAA star in terms of this match.

A grand total of 88% of us consider Page is leaving Arizona with the North American title still around his waist. He’s held the gold for around 150 days now, and while WWE probably should a minimum of take into consideration putting considered one of the “NXT” championships on a AAA star for the advantages of the businesses’ partnership, we do not think it is the North American Championship, a minimum of not right away while “All Ego” continues to be champion. It doesn’t look like Page, who’s hopefully soon destined for a most important roster call-up, can be the one to take that loss.

We also don’t think that Wagner will look bad taking the loss here, as he’s a title holder in AAA himself, having captured the Latin American Championship at Worlds Collide. The proven fact that this bout is a Day of the Dead match, where anything goes, can be helpful to his case, because it’s unlikely a heel Page won’t resort to dasterdly, but legal through the match, tactics to take out Wagner. While a few of us are holding out somewhat hope for AAA star, 88% of us consider Page is emerging from the Dia de los Muertos-inspired match victorious.

Written by Daisy Ruth

The audition is over, and it’s time to present Blake Monroe the role of “NXT’s chief female antagonist.” The previous AEW Women’s World Champion has met every challenge and humiliation that WWE management has thrown at her, and it is time to stop screwing around and put some form of title on her. The Women’s North American Title could have to do.

It is not just about Monroe being greater than worthy of a title. The story between Zaria and Sol Ruca has run its course, and it is time for these two women to fight for one reason or one other, and there is no such thing as a higher time than now. Zaria seemingly took the injured Sol Ruca’s future into her own hands, stepping as much as defend Ruca’s title for her, and in doing so planted a seed of dissension that would blossom right into a fun rivalry through Royal Rumble and WrestleMania season.

If it were as much as me, I’d probably send Monroe all of the solution to the NXT women’s title scene. In truth, it kinda looks like the storylines between Monroe/Zaria and Jayne/Paxley should switch their titles, but that is neither here nor there. The North American Title division is where the 2 women are, and that is what we’re coping with here. There are 12% who could see Zaria and Sol Ruca’s storyline hang on to the NA Title somewhat longer, but there’s something just somewhat silly concerning the way Monroe hasn’t managed to capture a title yet. It is time to bring some glamour to the ladies’s North American title division.

Written by Ross Berman

What are “Broken rules?” Who cares? Just like all other incarnation of a No DQ match (which is actually what it’ll be), the moniker doesn’t matter. Only this time, actually, it does because, speaking of incarnation, each Matt and Jeff Hardy recently revisited a spot called the Lake of Reincarnation and—holy Señor Benjamin!—we’ve got The Broken Hardys, “Broken” Matt and Brother Nero, in WWE!

Okay, we get it, we kind of, form of got a tiny hint at that back in 2018 when Matt, like, said “Delete!” just a few times and was “Woken” alongside Bray Wyatt, and Jeff perhaps said “Delete!” too a couple of times during their return run that began at WrestleMania 33, but GUYS THEY WENT ALL THE WAY IN AT THE HARDY COMPOUND AGAIN! It’s really happening! We saw Señor Benjamin, Queen Rebecca, Hardy kids including King Maxel and Wolfgang, Bartholomew, and Ever (who may or may not even be kings and queens), Vanguard 1.5 or 2 or 3 or whatever it’s by now, and various Halloween entities and relics going full anthropromorphism so what, all is correct with the world! On top of that, Brother Nero classified “State of Dark” as obsolete and Matt sentenced them to deletion! It’s finally here.

So with all that fanfare, no wonder 82% of us went with Team Hardy. But, on condition that it is a Broken Rules match, there should not be any cinematic element to it, so do we predict that this feud could actually go on, irrespective of who the victor is here? Is there a way (outside of Darkstate winning) to trudge this forward to a “Final Deletion” of sorts on the Hardy Compound? That might be fitting. And what? If there’s any group that would use a dip into the Lake of Reincarnation, it is likely to be Darkstate, lest they be ceaselessly be relegated to the constraints of being Retribution 2.0. (Seriously, we gotta stop with the masked intruders trope.) Regardless of what, as you’ll be able to tell, we’re here for this detour into the Broken Universe, especially if it leads to 1 last full-time WWE run for Matt and Jeff, who’re shoe-ins for a Hall of Fame induction before too long.

Written by Jon Jordan

The NXT Women’s Championship match is considered one of the harder matches to call on the Halloween Havoc card. The Culling’s Tatum Paxley won a battle royal last week to turn out to be primary contender to the title. It was all pretty sudden for Paxley, who still looks like she has a story to start with Izzi Dame to interrupt freed from the stable, so 71% of us are going with “probably the most beatable champion in NXT history,” as even she has admitted and called herself, Jacy Jayne to retain the gold.

We’re conflicted, due partly to Paxley’s impassioned promo on Tuesday’s episode of “NXT,” and the very fact her winning the gold could kickstart her breakup angle with Dame and The Culling. Then again, nonetheless, Jayne’s Fatal Influence stable just gained a brand new member in Lainey Reid, and despite the fact that it isn’t Reid who’s competing within the match, it seems to us like a wierd idea to strengthen the group only to have Jayne take the loss. Reid will likely wish to prove her price in Fatal Influence even further and help Jayne win behind the referee’s back.

The 71% of us here at WINC going with Jayne for this match consider it will be a talent greater than Paxley to dethone her for the NXT Women’s Championship. While no other talent is anywhere near Jayne and the gold right away, the vast majority of us still think it will be someone like Jordynne Grace, Blake Monroe, Lola Vice, and even Jaida Parker to finally defeat Jayne.

Written by Daisy Ruth

Trick Williams’ pair of runs as NXT Champion, in addition to his 140-day crossover tenure as TNA World Champion, have been overly impressive and the lead-up to this showdown with incumbent NXT champ Ricky Saints took a spicy activate the go-home episode to Halloween Havoc when, after a contract signing that (shocker!) featured some tense back-and-forth between champion and challenger, Saints sent Williams through the conveniently-placed table within the ring with something of an F5. (Yep, an F5 — interesting, that)

Clearly, we’re all in sync here with 94% of precincts predicting a Saints retention on this match, and one would think that numerous that lends itself to 1 outstanding query: “What does Trick Williams have left in NXT?” To that, we put forth, “not much.” It appears to be a little bit of a brand new era down Orlando way and Saints is poised to steer the charge for a bit while it might make numerous sense to see Williams head to, say, “SmackDown” sooner moderately than later. After all, we have said this before but unless something wacky happens, that is the guess.

Beyond that, and pondering solely of Saints, it would not make much sense to flip the title this quickly after he won it, not even a month ago, beating Oba Femi at No Mercy. As an alternative, it seems likely we might see Williams do the honors here and move forward to a fresh lot of opponents “up within the bigs,” while “The Revolution” forges forward because the face of a brand new era for NXT.

Written by Jon Jordan