Monster Jam World Finals XXIV

Monster Jam World Finals XXIV (also written as Monster Jam World Finals 24) was the 24th Monster Jam World Finals that took place through July 4-5th, 2025 at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. This World Finals saw the return of the two-day format of main field competition, but with major changes. Instead of racing and freestyle being held on separate day, the main field was split into two groups, with each competing in one specific main field championship, and the switching the next day.. This World Finals also saw a special "elevated Jersey style" racing track.

The champions that this World Finals would crown include Tristan England in the JCB DIGatron winning the skills championship, Ryan Anderson in Son-uva Digger winning his third high jump championship, and in the main field, Todd LeDuc in the "Stars & Stripes" Megalodon winning the racing championship, marking his third and final championship, and finally with Blake Granger in the Monster Mutt Dalmatian winning the freestyle championship.

Lineups[]

Main field[]

Special designs/debuts[]

Every competing would Grave Digger run a special distinct scheme for the World Finals.
- An updated traditional Grave Digger scheme debuted, driven by Tyler Menninga, featuring an updated graveyard and tombstones.
- Grave Digger the Legend made a one-time return to competition, with Adam Anderson driving.
- The “Red Primer” throwback scheme for Grave Digger driven by Weston Anderson, marking the throwback scheme's competition debut, being referred to as "Grave Digger Red Primer" throughout the event.
- The "Grandma" throwback scheme for Grave Digger driven by Krysten Anderson, marking the throwback scheme's competition debut, being referred to as "Grave Digger Grandma" throughout the event.
- The "Stars & Stripes" variant of Grave Digger competitively debuted, being driven by Matt Cody.
Avenger debuted a special Stars & Stripes design for the World Finals.
Terminal Velocity debuted a blue flame design.
Wild Side debuted an army camoflauge design.
JCB DIGatron debuted a throwback design celebrating the company’s 80th anniversary, referencing an older design for the JCB backloaders.
Excaliber debuted a throwback design to the original grey and red Excaliber design from 1985, celebrating the truck's 40th anniversary.
A new yellow gradient scheme for Sparkle Smash debuted, driven by Kayla Blood, being ran exclusively on Saturday.
Livin’ On The Edge makes a soft-debut with Brandan Tulachka, with the name being ran alongside the Just Get Er Done II name in LCQ, meant as a transition for the truck's rebranding.
The "Stars & Stripes" variant of El Toro Loco debuted, being driven by Fernando Martinez for the LCQ.
The "inverse" red variant of ThunderROARus returned, being driven by Tony Ochs for LCQ.
The Nitro variant of Zombie returned, being driven by Jon Zimmer Sr. for LCQ on his Uproar chassis.
The yellow design of El Toro Loco returned, remastered with the 2025 bull concept, being driven by MJ Solorio for the LCQ and as a fill-in for Skills.
Jester debuted a black and red design for its 10th anniversary. *Not competing.
Kraken debuted a Stars & Stripes design. *Not competing.
Shell Shock'ed debuts. *Not competing.
MissFire debuts. *Not competing.

Thursday Results[]

LCQ (Qualifying)[]

El Toro Loco (Stars & Stripes): 27.250
Grave Digger (Stars & Stripes): 27.462
Krazy Train: 27.803
The Black Pearl: 28.029
Vendetta: 28.206
Zombie (Nitro): 28.337
Mayhem: 28.518
Velociraptor: 28.612
ThunderROARus (Inverse): 28.759
Just Get Er Done II: 28.949
El Toro Loco (Yellow): 29.549
Megalodon: 30.636

Main Field Qualifying[]

Qualifying (Group A) results[]

Monster Mutt Dalmatian: 27.059
Megalodon (Stars & Stripes): 27.100
Grave Digger: 27.121
Zombie: 27.331
Jurassic Attack: 27.355
El Toro Loco: 27.467
Grave Digger the Legend: 27.599
JCB DIGatron: 27.665
ThunderROARus: 27.739
Scooby-Doo!: 28.055
Sparkle Smash: 29.214
Avenger: 36.273

Qualifying (Group B) results[]

Classroom Crusher: 27.076
Son-uva Digger: 27.191
Wild Side: 27.198
Monster Mutt: 27.336
Lucas Stabilizer: 27.548
Grave Digger (Red Primer): 27.581
Dragon: 27.588
Terminal Velocity: 27.826
Grave Digger (Grandma): 28.739
Excaliber: 33.166

LCQ[]

(Note: Due to Jamie Sullivan withdrawing from the main field, the semi-finals would serve as the championship races, with two spots now being available for the main field.)

Round 1[]

Velociraptor vs ThunderROARus (Inverse)
Vendetta vs Megalodon
Mayhem vs Just Get Er Done II
Zombie (Nitro) vs El Toro Loco (Yellow) (*crashed)

Round 2[]

El Toro Loco (Stars & Stripes) vs ThunderROARus (Inverse)
The Black Pearl vs Vendetta
Grave Digger (Stars & Stripes) vs Mayhem
Krazy Train vs Zombie (Nitro)

Championship Races[]

El Toro Loco (Stars & Stripes) (*crashed) vs The Black Pearl
Grave Digger (Stars & Stripes) vs Krazy Train

Qualifying Results (Overall)[]

Monster Mutt Dalmatian: 27.059
Classroom Crusher: 27.076
Megalodon (Stars & Stripes): 27.100
Grave Digger: 27.121
Son-uva Digger: 27.191
Wild Side: 27.198
Zombie: 27.331
Monster Mutt: 27.336
Jurassic Attack: 27.355
Grave Digger (Stars & Stripes): 27.462 (*from LCQ qualifying)
El Toro Loco: 27.467
Lucas Stabilizer: 27.548
Grave Digger (Red Primer): 27.581
Dragon: 27.588
Grave Digger the Legend: 27.599
JCB DIGatron: 27.665
ThunderROARus: 27.739
Terminal Velocity: 27.826
The Black Pearl: 28.029 (*from LCQ qualifying)
Scooby-Doo!: 28.055
Grave Digger (Grandma): 28.739
Sparkle Smash: 29.214
Excaliber: 33.166
Avenger: 36.273

Friday Results[]

"Group A" Racing results[]

Round 1[]

JCB DIGatron vs ThunderROARus
Jurassic Attack vs Avenger
Grave Digger the Legend vs Scooby-Doo!
El Toro Loco vs Sparkle Smash

Round 2[]

Monster Mutt Dalmatian vs JCB DIGatron
Zombie (*crashed) vs Jurassic Attack
Megalodon (Stars & Stripes) vs Scooby-Doo!
Grave Digger vs El Toro Loco

Semi finals[]

Monster Mutt Dalmatian vs Jurassic Attack
Megalodon (Stars & Stripes) vs Grave Digger

Championship Race (Friday)[]

Jurassic Attack vs Megalodon (Stars & Stripes)

Utah Sports Commission Two-Wheel-Skills results[]

JCB DIGatron: 7.864
Grave Digger (Red Primer): 7.251
El Toro Loco (Yellow): 6.704
Terminal Velocity: 6.660
Monster Mutt Dalmatian: 6.628
Son-uva Digger: 6.566
Grave Digger: 6.420
El Toro Loco: 6.398

"Group B" Freestyle results[]

Wild Side: 8.713
Grave Digger (Red Primer): 8.279
Excaliber: 8.148
Lucas Stabilizer: 8.122
Monster Mutt: 8.019
Terminal Velocity: 7.801
Black Pearl: 7.747
Classroom Crusher: 7.377
Son-uva Digger: 7.327
Grave Digger (Stars & Stripes): 7.146
Grave Digger (Grandma): 5.912
Dragon: 5.255

Saturday Results[]

"Group B" Results results[]

Round 1[]

Dragon (*crashed) vs Terminal Velocity
Grave Digger (Stars & Stripes) vs Excaliber
Grave Digger (Red Primer) vs The Black Pearl
Lucas Stabilizer vs Grave Digger (Grandma); (*Lucas Stabilizer won, but crashed and could not return)

Round 2[]

Classroom Crusher vs Terminal Velocity
Monster Mutt vs Excaliber
Son-uva Digger vs Grave Digger (Red Primer)
Wild Side vs Grave Digger (Grandma)

Semi-finals[]

Terminal Velocity vs Monster Mutt
Grave Digger (Red Primer) vs Wild Side

Championship Race (Saturday)[]

Terminal Velocity vs Wild Side

Bronze Medal Race[]

Jurassic Attack vs Terminal Velocity

Championship Race[]

Megalodon (Stars & Stripes) vs Wild Side

Lucas Oil High Jump results[]

Son-uva Digger: 23.242 ft.
Monster Mutt: 20.078 ft.
El Toro Loco (Garner): 17.969 ft.
Zombie: 16.976 ft.
Classroom Crusher: 16.914 ft.
Sparkle Smash: 16.790 ft.
Avenger: 10.090 ft.
ThunderROARus: 7.795 ft.

"Group A" Freestyle results[]

Monster Mutt Dalmatian: 8.848
ThunderROARus: 7.792
Grave Digger the Legend: 7.719
Scooby-Doo!: 7.496
Zombie: 7.152
El Toro Loco: 7.101
Megalodon (Stars & Stripes): 6.558
Jurassic Attack: 6.343
JCB DIGatron: 5.263
Sparkle Smash: 5.221
Avenger: 4.488
Grave Digger: 0.000 (Did not complete minimum time)

Freestyle Results (Overall)[]

Monster Mutt Dalmatian: 8.848
Wild Side: 8.713
Grave Digger (Red Primer): 8.279
Excaliber: 8.148
Lucas Stabilizer: 8.122
Monster Mutt: 8.019
Terminal Velocity: 7.801
ThunderROARus: 7.792
The Black Pearl: 7.747
Grave Digger the Legend: 7.719
Scooby-Doo!: 7.496
Classroom Crusher: 7.377
Son-uva Digger: 7.327
Zombie: 7.152
Grave Digger (Stars & Stripes): 7.146
El Toro Loco: 7.101
Megalodon (Stars & Stripes): 6.558
Jurassic Attack: 6.343
Grave Digger (Grandma): 5.912
JCB DIGatron: 5.263
Dragon: 5.255
Sparkle Smash: 5.221
Avenger: 4.488
Grave Digger (Menninga): 0.000 (Did not complete minimum time)

Format Controversy[]

Pre-Event[]

The all new two-day format upon announcement in early January 2025 would result in overwhelming criticism and hate across monster truck community. Many would express their distaste for it, finding it unnecessary, confusing, and even messier than the one-day format used for the previous two World Finals. Many would also express their concerns with the format, with it being considered conceptually flawed format, with many factors that could potentially degrade the event, such as truck breakage, poor/changing weather, inconsistent judging, as well as the main field championships appearing underwhelming too similar regular stadium events with 12-truck competitions.

The initial Instagram post announcing the new format and the ticket pre-sale infamously would be flooded with comments of fans expressing their hate for the new format, starting the hashtag "#fixtheformat." Monster Jam would resultantly disable the comments on the post. However, this wouldn't stop fans from expressing their opinions, as many posts following the announcement would see the same comments (example; Monster Jam's next Instagram post following the World Finals post).

Post-Event[]

World Finals XXIV following the end of the championship weekend would be considered by majority of the community to be an rather enjoyable and overall good event. Despite this, most fans would agree that the format was the biggest issue with the World Finals, it was the aspect with the most negative impact on the event, with many of the initial concerns of the format coming true. One of the most notable examples was the weather. On Friday, the event was infamously delayed by about one hour before official starting due to incoming rain. Although the track fortunately would not be too heavily ravaged by the rain, fans would express concern over the possibility of worse weather, and how the event came close to have two unfairly different conditions between Friday and Saturday. However, weather would still play an issue on Saturday, as during round 1 of group B's racing, the red lane was notoriously rutted and slick, unlike how it had the past two days, resulting in a easy win and unfair advantage to those in the blue lane. It would cause the track crew to spend over 10 minutes cleaning out the red lane before racing continued.

The other criticism about the format, more so from a fan's perspective, was the underwhelming anti-climatic atmosphere of the main field championships, due to them being shortened and having a smaller amount of competitors. This was most apparent on the Friday championships as no main field champions were crowned, and both championships ending on a cliff-hanger. Despite fans enjoying the intense action of Friday racing and especially the critical acclaim the Friday freestyle championship received, fans would point out how noticeably shorter and less grand the Friday portion felt compared to past World Finals. the Saturday championships would be considered by fans to be more intense due to champions actually being crowned,

However, alongside the unfair red-lane issues, fans would point out the issue with truck breakages from the previous night, and inconsistent judging in freestyle. The most notable breakage would be from Zack Garner who, after throwing down a crazy freestyle with a broken truck, ended up dealing with steering issues that affected his championship race and his high jump presence. It's unknown how much of the previous night's freestyle played a part in his breakage on Saturday. Lastly, despite Blake Granger running and winning freestyle on Saturday, fans would point out how much harsher and critical the judging seemed on Saturday, where minimal Saturday competitors scoring high, with only four finishing in the upper-half overall, and some drivers who gave decent performance getting much lower scores than what they would've seemingly gotten previous night, with some freestyles often being brought up in this debate including Armando Castro and Brianna Mahon.

Pit party trucks/displays[]

Axe
BKT
Earth Shaker
El Toro Loco (Garner)
Grave Digger 40 (Ride)
JCB DIGatron (Arthur)
Jester
Jurassic Attack (Hall)
Kraken
Livin’ On The Edge
Megalodon (Nock)
Megalodon (Ride)
Megalodon (Crocker)
Megalodon (Tulachka)
MissFire
Monster Mutt Rottweiler
Plane Krazy
Ramdemption
Raminator
Shell Shock'ed
Tech Deck Wreck Deck
Velociraptor (Orange; Williams)

Trivia[]

Jamie Sullivan was originally slated to compete in the main field and skills driving the traditional Sparkle Smash truck, having received the invites on the World Finals selection show. However, she would sustain a severe injury after being bit in the face by a rescue dog which would lead to an infection, resulting in her having to withdraw from the World Finals entirely. With her withdrawal, it would cause major changes to the LCQ bracket for the final main field spot, with two sports now be open, where the semi-finals would serve as championship races, with the winners of said races both earning a main field spot. Despite dropping out, Jamie, however, would still make an appearance at the event as a guest, cheering on the competitors among other non-competing drivers.
- This marks the second World Finals where a driver would withdraw from the main field after having received an official invite. The first time was in 2017, where both Cole Venard and Justin Sipes would withdraw from the main field after having won their champion series months prior, and would be replaced by Randy Brown and Alex Blackwell respectively.
- Jamie Sullivan was originally slated to run the traditional Sparkle Smash design, with Kayla Blood running a special new yellow scheme. However, due to Jamie's withdrawal, switch-ups would be made, with Kayla running the traditional design on Friday, and then running the yellow design on Saturday.
This would be the first World Finals to utilize pre-chosen fill-in drivers, particularly in Skills and Jump. There would be a first fill-in, and then a second fill-in in case of two absences.
- The fill-in for Skills would be Manuel "MJ" Solorio in the yellow El Toro Loco, with the second fill-in being Tim Hall Jr. in Jurassic Attack. Only MJ would end up competing due to Jamie Sullivan withdrawing from the main field and skills due to the dog-bite infection.
- The fill-ins for High Jump would be Jamey Garner in the Over Bored ran El Toro Loco, with the second fill-in being Tyler Menninga in Grave Digger #44. Only Jamey would end up competing, interestingly due to his son Zack Garner being unable to compete and even enter the stadium.
- With both fill-in drivers competing in El Toro Loco trucks, both would end up taking the bronze medal in their respective championships.
Both defending champions of Skills (Armando Castro) and High Jump (Colt Stephens) would end up finishing in the bottom spot.
Cole Venard and Matt Cody being crowned the LCQ winners and entering the main field due to the circumstances with Jamie Sullivan marked the first ever instances of more than one LCQ competitor entering the main field.
- This occurrence would mark the first instance of co-World Finals winners since 2004 which saw the infamous three-way tie between Lupe Soza, Debra "Madusa" Miceli, and Tom Meents.
- Cole Venard being crowned an LCQ champion marked the first instance of an LCQ winner being from someone who had competed in the World Finals main field a previous year.
Todd LeDuc winning the racing championship would mark the first ever driver to win a main field world championship in their final season with Monster Jam.
- This would make Todd the second driver who would never attempt to defend their championship, with him retiring full-time. The driver was Jimmy Creten in 2019, who competed in the 2020 season, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic has not returned to Monster Jam.
Before the main field competitions, two opening kickoff stunts were held.
- The Friday stunt featured the exhibition debut of the new Tech Deck sponsored Wreck Deck truck with Bryce Kenny, which saw the truck do a "skateboard" trick which went into a traditional freestyle.
- The Saturday stunt featured the real-life creation of the JCB DIGatron Smashbot, attempted by Tristan England, which would see him attempt to smash through the smashbot in the JCB DIGatron.
This marked the World Finals main field debut for the Terminal Velocity, Classroom Crusher, Excaliber, and Sparkle Smash trucks.
This marked the World Finals main field debuts for Jon Zimmer Jr. and Michael Pagliarulo, as well as Matt Cody who had won LCQ.
This event marked the first competitive appearance of the Grave Digger the Legend truck since 2015.
This show featured the competition debuts of the "Red Primer" and "Grandma" Grave Digger throwback schemes since being used exclusively in encores.
Blake Granger would be the first driver to receive an invite into the main field, winning the International Series championship in February and earning the automatic bid.
This was the first World Finals where a "selection show" would take place to select its competitors. It took place on May 19th, two days after the main championship series battles ended.
Dennis Anderson, Tom Meents, Heavy D, Mikayla Tulachka and Fernando Martinez were guest judges at the event.
- Prior to the weekend, only Dennis, Tom, and Heavy D were announced, with the other two being slated to be revealed later. Mikayla would be revealed at the press conference and Fernando revealed at the Friday pit party.
This would be the first World Finals since 2019 where the Black Pearl would not initially receive a main field invite, only competing in LCQ, which he would win and later earn his invite.
This is the first World Finals since 2002 not to feature Max-D in any capacity, and the first overall not to feature a Team Meents truck.
- It would also be the first since 2009 to not feature Mohawk Warrior, Bakugan Dragonoid since 2018, and Soldier Fortune since 2019.
This marked the first World Finals since 2018 without Linsey Read, and Cory Rummell since 2019 due to both drivers having stepped down from full-time following the previous season.
During the medal ceremony for the overall freestyle standings, Blake Granger was mistakenly referred to as "Blake Garner."
This World Finals, alongside World Finals XXV the following year, used an Independence Day theme, with the Friday event taking place on said holiday. Notably, at the end of the Friday show, an encore ceremony of fireworks was held in celebration of the holiday.
- The encore marked the first encore to end a World Finals day since 2022 with the Grave Digger 40th Anniversary encore on the event's second day.

Gallery[]

Monster Jam World Finals by Year
I (2000) • II (2001) • III (2002) • IV (2003) • V (2004) • VI (2005) • VII (2006) • VIII (2007) • IX (2008) • X (2009) • XI (2010) • XII (2011) • XIII (2012) • XIV (2013) • XV (2014) • XVI (2015) • XVII (2016) • XVIII (2017) • XIX (2018) • XX (2019) • XXI (2020/22) • XXII (2023) • XXIII (2024) • XXIV (2025) • XXV (2026)

Monster Jam World Finals XXIV

Lineups[]

Main field[]

Group A[]

Group B[]

Utah Sports Commission Two-Wheel Skills Challenge[]

Lucas Oil High Jump[]

Last Chance Qualifying[]

Special designs/debuts[]

Thursday Results[]

LCQ (Qualifying)[]

Main Field Qualifying[]

Qualifying (Group A) results[]

Qualifying (Group B) results[]

LCQ[]

Round 1[]

Round 2[]

Championship Races[]

Qualifying Results (Overall)[]

Friday Results[]

"Group A" Racing results[]

Round 1[]

Round 2[]

Semi finals[]

Championship Race (Friday)[]

Utah Sports Commission Two-Wheel-Skills results[]

"Group B" Freestyle results[]

Saturday Results[]

"Group B" Results results[]

Round 1[]

Round 2[]

Semi-finals[]

Championship Race (Saturday)[]

Bronze Medal Race[]

Championship Race[]

Lucas Oil High Jump results[]

"Group A" Freestyle results[]

Freestyle Results (Overall)[]

Format Controversy[]

Pre-Event[]

Post-Event[]

Pit party trucks/displays[]

Trivia[]

Gallery[]