NXT No Mercy (2025)

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Promotiona poster featuring Blake Monroe, Ricky Saints, Oba Femi, Jacy Jayne, and Lola Vice
Promotion WWE
Brand NXT
DateSeptember 27, 2025
City Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Venue FTL War Memorial
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The 2025 No Mercy is an upcoming professional wrestling livestreaming event produced by WWE. It will be the third annual No Mercy held for the promotion's developmental brand NXT and the 16th No Mercy event overall. The event will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at the FTL War Memorial in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and will be the first No Mercy to broadcast on Netflix.

Contents

Production

Background

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The event will be held at the FTL War Memorial in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

No Mercy was first held by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE as a United Kingdom-exclusive pay-per-view (PPV) event in May 1999. [1] A second No Mercy was then held later that same year in October, but in the United States, which established No Mercy as the annual October PPV for the promotion until 2008. [2] No Mercy was discontinued in 2009, but it was reinstated in October 2016 following the reintroduction of the brand extension, which brought back brand-exclusive PPVs. [3] Following WrestleMania 34 in April 2018, however, No Mercy was again discontinued as WWE ended brand-exclusive PPVs, resulting in the reduction of yearly PPVs produced. [4] In 2023, WWE again revived No Mercy to be held in September as a livestreaming event for their developmental brand, NXT. [5]

On August 24, 2025, at Heatwave, it was announced that the third No Mercy for the NXT brand, and 16th overall, would be held on Saturday, September 27, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the FTL War Memorial. [6] Beginning with Halloween Havoc in 2024, all major NXT events (with the exception of the 2025 Great American Bash) are branded solely with the WWE logo instead of the NXT logo; the 2025 No Mercy would have been the first No Mercy event to solely use the promotion’s logo since the 2017 event but this was later changed with the addition of the NXT logo.

Broadcast outlets

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 No Mercy to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January in those areas. [7] Peacock had retained the rights to stream NXT's major premium live events after the loss of its main roster events to ESPN's direct-to-consumer streaming service which began at Wrestlepalooza one week before. [8] [9]

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the NXT brand, while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television program, NXT . [10] [11]

At Heatwave, Lola Vice won a triple threat match to earn a future NXT Women's Championship match against champion Jacy Jayne. Later that night, it was announced that the title match would take place at No Mercy. [12]

At Heatwave, NXT General Manager Ava announced that both the WWE Speed Championship and WWE Women's Speed Championship would now be exclusive to NXT. Ava also announced that a tournament would begin on the September 2 episode of NXT, with the winner of the tournament challenging champion Sol Ruca for the Women's Speed Championship at No Mercy. [13] Two days later on NXT, Ava revealed that the participants of the tournament would be SmackDown's Candice LeRae, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide's (AAA) Faby Apache, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's (TNA) Xia Brookside, and NXT's Lainey Reid. [14]

At NXT: New Year's Evil in January 2025, Oba Femi defeated NXT Champion Trick Williams in a triple threat match to win the championship. [15] Williams vowed to regain the championship, and three months later at Stand & Deliver, Williams faced Femi in another triple threat match for the title, but failed to win. [16] After that, Williams would win the TNA World Championship at Battleground. [17] At The Great American Bash, Femi successfully defended his title against Josh Briggs's tag team partner Yoshiki Inamura. During the match, Briggs tried to interfere, much to Inamura's dismay, who wanted to win the match without any help. [17] On the July 22 episode of NXT, Femi retained his title in a triple threat match against both Briggs and Inamura. After the match, Briggs attacked Inamura, turning heel in the process. [18] On the August 19 episode of NXT, Briggs defeated Inamura in a Philadelphia Street Fight, Ricky Saints defeated Jasper Troy, who Saints was in a rivalry, and Williams, who kept trying for another shot at the NXT Championship, lost a number one conteder's match for a shot at the title at Heatwave. [19] At the event, both Briggs and Saints announced their intentions to challenge for the title, and later that night, after Femi successfully defended his title, he was confronted by Saints. [12] Two days later on NXT, Saints called out Femi, but was interrupted by Briggs, who stated that Saints did not deserve a title shot. After some exchange of words, NXT General Manager Ava scheduled a match between Saints and Briggs for later that night, where the winner would challenge for the NXT Championship at No Mercy. The match was won by Saints. [14] However, at NXT Homecoming on September 16, Raw's Grayson Waller hosted his talk show The Grayson Waller Effect with both Femi and Saints. They were all interrupted by Williams, still wanting an NXT Championship match. Waller then proposed a Winner Takes All match between Femi and Williams for the following week with both titles on the line, which both men agreed, and it was subsequently made official, with the winner facing Saints for both titles at No Mercy. [20]

Since August, Tavion Heights had been feuding with NXT North American Champion Ethan Page. Heights took issue with Page insulting the United States and arguing that his native Canada is superior. At Heatwave, Heights lost a mixed tag team match against Page. [12] After the event, their rivalry continued, leading to a Flag match on the September 9 episode of NXT, where Heights defeated Page by grabbing the American flag. [21] The following week at NXT Homecoming, SmackDown's Damian Priest appeared and praised Heights. After that, Priest announced that after speaking with NXT General Manager Ava, Heights would face Page for the title at No Mercy. [20]

Matches

No.Matches*Stipulations
1 Jacy Jayne (c) (with Fallon Henley and Jazmyn Nyx) vs. Lola Vice Singles match for the NXT Women's Championship [22]
2 Sol Ruca (c) vs. Candice LeRae or Lainey Reid Singles match for the WWE Women's Speed Championship [13]
3 Oba Femi or Trick Williams (c) vs. Ricky Saints Singles match for the NXT Championship and TNA World Championship [23]
4 Ethan Page (c) vs. Tavion Heights Singles match for the NXT North American Championship [24]
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
*Card subject to change

WWE Women's Speed Championship #1 Contender's Tournament

First round
NXT
(September 2–9, 2025)
Final
NXT
(September 23, 2025)
Championship match
No Mercy
(September 27, 2025)
Candice LeRae Pin
Sol Ruca (c)
Xia Brookside 2:36 [25]
Candice LeRae
Lainey Reid
Faby Apache 2:41 [21]
Lainey Reid Pin

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