WrestleMania 25

WrestleMania 25 (also written with roman numerals as "WrestleMania XXV", and also referred to as "The 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania" despite only being the 24th anniversary of the event) was a professional wrestling pay per view event produced by WWE (then known as World Wrestling Entertainment) that took place on April 5, 2009 from Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, USA. The event featured performers from the Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown brands, but was without performers from the Tuesday Night ECW brand, and featured two main events per both the Raw and SmackDown brands. The SmackDown main event featured Edge defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Big Show and John Cena in a Triple Threat match, whilst the Raw main event featured Triple H defending the WWE Championship against Randy Orton with the special stipulation that Triple H's "champions advantage" would not be in play, meaning that Triple H could lose the championship if he were to be counted out or disqualified, as opposed to most championship matches, where the champion loses the match if he were to be disqualified or counted out, but would not lose the championship.
The event is notable for being the site of the WWE Tag Team Championships and World Tag Team Championships being unified to crown the inaugural Unified WWE Tag Team Champions. This would also be the final WrestleMania to feature a match involving "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Jimmy Snuka, who passed away in 2015 and 2017 respectively. This would also be the first and final WrestleMania to feature Santina Marella, who was Santino Marella's kayfabe sister despite being portrayed by Santino Marella himself in a fishnet top, pink skirt and black wig speaking with a feminine vocal tone. The event would also feature John Bradshaw Layfield's final match in WWE, as he would quit WWE in kayfabe after losing to Rey Mysterio with the Intercontinental Championship on the line at the event, which in reality led to his real life retirement from in-ring competition.
== Results ==
Match No. 	Result 	Stipulation
Pre-Show 	(WWE Tag Team Champions) The Colons def. (World Tag Team Champions) John Morrison and The Miz 	Tag Team match to unify the WWE Tag Team Championships and the World Tag Team Championships into the Unified WWE Tag Team Championships
Match No. 1	CM Punk def. Christian, Finlay w/ Hornswoggle, Kane, Kofi Kingston, Mark Henry w/ Tony Atlas, Montel Vontavious Porter, and Shelton Benjamin	2009 Money in the Bank Ladder match for a future WWE Championship or World Heavyweight Championship match
Match No. 2	Santina Marella won by last eliminating Beth Phoenix 	Battle Royal match to determine the winner of the "Miss WrestleMania" crown
Match No. 3	Chris Jericho def. Jimmy Snuka, Ricky Steamboat, and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper w/ Ric Flair 	3-on-1 Handicap Elimination match
Match No. 4	Matt Hardy def. Jeff Hardy 	Extreme Rules match
Match No. 5	Rey Mysterio def. John Bradshaw Layfield (c) 	Singles match for the Intercontinental Championship
Match No. 6	The Undertaker def. Shawn Michaels 	Singles match
Match No. 7	John Cena def. Edge (c) and Big Show 	Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship
Match No. 8	Triple H (c) def. Randy Orton 	Singles match for the WWE Championship; Triple H's "Champions Advantage" is disabled