WWE Clash in Paris 2025 Discussion

[Kamran]

 

MATCHES

• World Heavyweight Championship: Seth Rollins (c) vs. CM Punk vs. Jey Uso vs. LA Knight
• John Cena vs. Logan Paul
• WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Nikki Bella
• Roman Reigns vs. Bronson Reed
• Good Ol' Fashioned Donnybrook: Sheamus vs. Rusev
• WWE Tag Team Championship: The Wyatt Sicks (Dexter Lumis and Joe Gacy) (c) vs. The Street Profits 

Edited August 29, 2025 by Kamran

[MVP RULZ]

Presumably its going to be Drew vs Cody in Drews now annual "Clash in/at" show title shot

 

[LaGoosh]

Weird that they've gone for a Starry Night theme with this considering Van Gough isn't French and it's not even a painting of Paris. 

I'm guessing this is AI slop. Shameless. 

Edited August 9, 2025 by LaGoosh

[FUM]

1 hour ago, LaGoosh said:

Weird that they've gone for a Starry Night theme with this considering Van Gough isn't French and it's not even a painting of Paris. 

I'm guessing this is AI slop. Shameless. 

Starry Night was painted in France. Glasgow doesn’t have a castle but they still had castles in the graphics. I know WWE isn’t currently the most popular company of the day but this isn’t really that deep.

[Tennessee Moltisanti]

2 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

I'm guessing this is AI slop. Shameless. 

It is, August 31th LOL.

[LaGoosh]

On 8/9/2025 at 5:30 PM, FUM said:

Starry Night was painted in France. Glasgow doesn’t have a castle but they still had castles in the graphics. I know WWE isn’t currently the most popular company of the day but this isn’t really that deep.

Yeah maybe it isn't that deep. Or maybe they should put a bit more effort in and not base the visual theme of a show called Clash In Paris around a painting that has literally nothing to do with Paris at all? I dunno, I just don't like the billion dollar company producing lazy AI slop and people mindlessly consuming it.

[air_raid]

On 8/9/2025 at 1:04 PM, MVP RULZ said:

Presumably its going to be Drew vs Cody in Drews now annual "Clash in/at" show title shot

Presumably, and because they set it up on telly.

I pissed myself when I saw people throwing around a card for this that had Cody defending, Cena vs Lesnar and Rollins vs Reigns. Hilariously out of touch with how many marquee matches they commit to a B show in 2025.

[d-d-d-dAz]

1 hour ago, LaGoosh said:

Yeah maybe it isn't that deep. Or maybe they should put a bit more effort in and not base the visual theme of a show called Clash In Paris around a painting that has literally nothing to do with Paris at all? I dunno, I just don't like the billion dollar company producing lazy AI slop and people mindlessly consuming it.

I think it's probably a combination of both things.

In terms of the concept, it doesn't really matter. I think they've shown before that to them (and to be fair, I think this is reflective of a lot of America), Europe is one big homogenous blob. I don't think their audience will even notice that this is a little strange.

That said, I'm almost certain this will have come about because someone was lazily googling 'Paris Culture' or something, and has confused 'Starry Night in Rhone' with 'Starry Night'.

Regarding AI, I actually find it hard to get too cross when it comes to on-screen graphics as TV companies have been automating elements of the on-screen GFX packages forever. I was working at Sky a decade ago when elements like name plates, idents and even some video packages were automatically generated. I know of sports properties whose entire highlights packages have been automatically generated for years. And that was before we had the term AI to get mad at, and no one seemed to care then when production people were losing their jobs every year.

It's shitty and sloppy most the time, but we've been accepting it on live sports for far longer than OpenAI or whoever have even existed.

[The King of Old School]

I'm surprised anyone expected Brock on this show.

Guessing they will save it for the Australia show or maybe even for Survivor Series seeing as it's in a stadium this year?

Think Cody/Drew looks like it's happening, then guessing at a 6 man on the Raw side with the Seth Riders (thanks to who ever put that on here the other day ?) against Punk, Roman & Knight, maybe Solo vs Sami for the US title and then probably another Women's match to round the card off, Becky vs Nikki Bella?

[MVP RULZ]

1 hour ago, air_raid said:

Presumably, and because they set it up on telly.

Well yes that was why I said Presumably because they seemingly set it up on Smackdown but nothing has been announced yet (as far I know) so presumably it will be

[HeadshrinkerJ]

Haven't been this uninterested in a WWE PPV in years.

[Merzbow]

On 8/11/2025 at 9:21 AM, The King of Old School said:

I'm surprised anyone expected Brock on this show.

Guessing they will save it for the Australia show or maybe even for Survivor Series seeing as it's in a stadium this year?

Think Cody/Drew looks like it's happening, then guessing at a 6 man on the Raw side with the Seth Riders (thanks to who ever put that on here the other day ?) against Punk, Roman & Knight, maybe Solo vs Sami for the US title and then probably another Women's match to round the card off, Becky vs Nikki Bella?

There's a new PPV just there to rival All Out, I'm betting they stick Brock vs Cena on it.

[Hannibal Scorch]

1 hour ago, Merzbow said:

There's a new PPV just there to rival All Out, I'm betting they stick Brock vs Cena on it.

Brock has been announced for the 2 Smackdowns before the PPV so I think you’re right

[Guest]

I'm confused, why are they marketing it as "Calash in Paris"?

[OzExile]

The B PLEs have consistently been better than the marquee ones this year. Excited for this with Roman added to the card. Interesting venue as well - a rugby ground with capacity at 40k. Seems the sweet spot for WWE.