WWE 2K25 Looks Like It Will Have Intergender Matches

The WWE 2K series has always heavily featured both its male and female stars. But WWE 2K25 might be taking things to another level by introducing a new feature: Intergender matches.

For any of you who don’t watch wrestling, most of the top promotions in North America (WWE and AEW more specifically) don’t allow for male and female wrestlers to compete directly against each other. Even in mixed tag-team matches — tag matches where each team consists of a male and female wrestler — the rules are generally that each wrestler can only get physical with someone of the same gender, and any violation of that rule would be met with a disqualification.

This applies to video games as well. In WWE 2K games, male wrestlers are only allowed to wrestle other male talents. The same applies to the women. At least, that’s how it has been since 2K took ownership of the franchise. But according to promotional materials recently posted by the official WWE Games X account, that might soon be changing.

In the post, current WWE star and Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley begins talking about rumors (seemingly) regarding intergender wrestling in the lead-up to WWE 2K25’s release. But before she can finish, she is cut off by top heel and former Judgement Day cohort Dominik Mysterio. The post itself contains emojis directly referencing the male and female genders. This seems to all but confirm that WWE 2K25 will allow for players to pit male and female WWE Superstars against each other.

While the concept of intergender wrestling might be foreign to the WWE 2K series, it has been included in prior WWE games. For instance, in 2002’s WWF Raw — among the worst wrestling games ever made — gender classes weren’t even a thing, with male wrestlers even being allowed to challenge for the Women’s Championship. And most recently, AEW Fight Forever allowed intergender wrestling, despite it not being a fixture on weekly AEW programming.

Despite neither WWE nor AEW featuring it in any kind of serious way, intergender wrestling isn’t exactly rare in the North American wrestling scene. TNA Wrestling infamously put the Impact World Championship on Tessa Blanchard after she defeated Sami Callihan for it at Slammiversary XVII in 2019. Lucha Underground also heavily featured intergender contests, including highly-touted and acclaimed bouts such as Pentagon Jr. (now know as Penta) against Reklusa (now known as Chelsea Green), and Pentagon Jr. against Hitokiri (now known as Iyo Sky). Funny enough, all three of these competitors are currently in WWE, making it possible for players to recreate these matches.