WWE Unreal Review – “Episode 5: WrestleMania”
By Kat Bourne on 5th August 2025
We’ve done it. We’ve made it to the end of WWE Unreal.
Well, we haven’t. “More episodes coming next year” have been added to the episode descriptions, so we’ll circle back to this in 2026 for such exciting episodes as “how we got Brock Lesnar to come back.” If you’ve missed the rest of this season – or you’re finding this in the future and want to read future reviews – click here for the full run.
Episode description: “A season of shocking storylines culminates as WrestleMania 41 arrives in Sin City. But victory is no guarantee – and the stakes have never been higher.”
Cody Rhodes, WWE Superstar is on the Wheatly American Vodka Bus. He discusses John Cena and the heel turn.
Brussels, Belgium. Cena is booed in his first entrance since turning. “What you have earned is NOTHING!” Paul Levesque, WWE Chief Content Officer, tells us that something will always go wrong on the road to WrestleMania. A writer’s meeting has them needing to protect Jey Uso, noting that people are seeing him blown up. Michael Hayes, WWE Hall of Famer, sees the pressure getting to Jey. Triple H wonders if he is struggling because they said they would make him the guy.
On the women’s side, Charlotte Flair has chosen to face Tiffany Stratton. Trips tells us it’s an intriguing story because it can re-stamp the career of Charlotte as the greatest of all-time. We go to Chicago. Charlotte tells us she is the bad guy with Tiffany and that the Chicago crowd booing rattled her. Hayes says she stepped on Tiffany in a way that didn’t help, so Tiffany stepped back with the divorce line. Triple H asks Tiffany Stratton, WWE Superstar backstage if all of that was on script. ” I need Tiffany to understand that that’s obviously not how we do this.” He wants Tiffany to apologize and them get on the same page.
We move to the men’s triple threat with Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and CM Punk with the Paul Heyman addition. Hayes mentions that Paul’s on-air relationships always carry over to real-life relationships.
We go to WWE Headquarters and the writing room. Triple H is trying to figure out what Paul does. He thinks Punk survives but thrives, but sometimes the logical road is predictable. Ed Koskey questions that it would feel more shocking with Seth going over and leaving with Paul.
WrestleMania Night 1. CM Punk, WWE Superstar says he is mellow and going to slow down and enjoy it. Everyone is congratulating him on his main event. “Was everything worth it? I’m feeling like it was, 100%.” CM Punk talks about shitting himself in the ring, and Ivar tells a story of doing it and keeping it in his cheeks. Punk sees Charlotte and asks her. “If I did, I wouldn’t tell you. I might have peed a little.” She tells a story of Triple H putting a Snickers in his tights and flicking it at Chris Jericho.
Jey Uso, WWE Superstar tells us how hard it is to transition into a singles guy, but they’re behind him and he’s learning. It’s do or die tonight, uce, because if he doesn’t its the back of the line. Jey yeets through the crowd as Jimmy watches with a huge smile in Gorilla. Xavier Woods and Sami Zayn are always watching excitedly backstage. Gunther taps and we have a new champ. Jimmy runs out to celebrate with him.
Jey says he’s only had it for ten minutes and he already feels anxious about it, like it’s added a hundred pounds to his shoulder. Triple H says there are a lot of questions when you put a guy like Jey in the spot, but they gave Jey the ball and he delivered.
Charlotte is getting in the zone backstage and has to work herself up to the emotion she needs. “It got so personal and real going into the match that it has to translate.” TJ Wilson, WWE Producer is hyped backstage as his girls have their match. Stratton wins. Charlotte tells us some of her best matches are when she loves. “It’s not the wins or losses, give your opponent the best match.” She and Tiffany hug in Gorilla. Charlotte feels she is at a spot where it launches Tiffany where she wants to go next, like someone did for her once. As far as where she goes herself, “try to climb the mountain again, I guess.”
Punk is getting emotional. Triple H: “You’re fucking CM Punk. You’ve always been a main event guy.” Heyman turns on Punk and Reigns, helping Rollins win the match. Becky Lynch, WWE Superstar claps backstage for her man and hugs Michael Hayes for his producing of the match. “That’s fucking wrestling, man.” Trips tells Hayes “that was fucking awesome.” Hayes tells us this is what God wanted him to do with his life and that he really likes wrestling. “Somebody puts that shit in my head.”
Rollins comes back and hugs ’em all and kisses one of them. Punk tells us that he sets goals so big that they are terrifying. Main eventing Mania is like landing on the moon with every eye watching, and he felt like he did what he promised he would do. “When you walk out of a match like that, nobody can tell me shit at that point.” Triple H congratulates him. Punk cries backstage as he tells us it was everything he wanted since he was a kid. “It’s all I ever wanted to do. I just did it. I fucking did it.”
Night two of Mania. The decision gets made on the way for Rhea Ripley to lose her title. The unpredictability opened the door to make a triple threat match between three of the biggest female stars in the business. Rhea Ripley, WWE Superstar goes into a store full of taxidermy and tells us this is a massive moment in their careers as they’ve all three come up together.
Cody Rhodes Hotel Suite. Cody talks with daughter Liberty about their hug tonight before heading to the arena. He talks with Bobby Roode, WWE Agent, and they think you just give them what you have and he’s not averse to how the fans cheer either way.
Bianca Belair, WWE Superstar, is working on her braid and says she can’t eat, but after the match she has a whole list in her phone of what she wants to eat. She tells Rhea she’s making the braid thick and it might leave a mark and tells Rhea she should get a tattoo of the mark. Rhea tells us she is usually frantic and having a panic attack going into Mania, but this one feels different. “It feels… nice.”
They have a five-star classic. Triple H tells Iyo she was born to do this, Bianca kisses Montez and thinks she broke her finger, and Rhea tells HHH she’s perfect. You can tell she’s his golden child, which is the right thing she should be. He tells her to stop doubting herself. “Just fucking be you.”
Cody warms up on the bus, joking around with Brandi Rhodes and Liberty. Trips tells Cena to enjoy this. Cody says it is the greatest standing against John and hearing the dueling chants. Cena tells us that his most valuable asset is his ears, and he likes to hear it and work with it.
The match happens. “Fein” hits and Travis Scott very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very slowly finds his way to the ring. The match ends and Cena wins the belt. We did not enjoy the match. Triple H says it accomplished what it needed to be to get you to the other side of the story. Travis threatens to make this his job. Cena gets applause backstage, and Cena says it was top speed for him, which he proved differently at SummerSlam.
Triple H tells us the story of WWE never ends; it just goes on. The offseason is a couple minutes at best, then you get the script for Raw and have to do it all over again. Shaboozey’s “Vegas” plays as we watch the arena be cleaned up. Cena tells us Mania can be the middle of a storyline. HHH tells us the business is relentless and never stops, which is a daunting task but, “thank god, it ever ends.”
But this show does, at least for this season. I think this episode started a bit slow but got cooking in the middle. As a whole, I liked the series. I think episodes 2-3 were the stars, the first was a decent intro and the last two were a bit slower.