WrestleMania 23

WrestleMania 23 (also written with roman numerals as "WrestleMania XXIII") was a professional wrestling pay per view event produced by WWE (then known as World Wrestling Entertainment) on April 1, 2007 from Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The event featured performers from the Monday Night Raw, Tuesday Night ECW, and Friday Night SmackDown brands, with four main events, one per each brand and one interpromotional main event. The SmackDown main event featured Batista defending the World Heavyweight Championship against The Undertaker. The ECW main event featured Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer and the Sandman competing against Elijah Burke, Kevin Thorne, Matt Striker and Marcus Cor Von of the New Breed in an eight-man tag team match. The interpromotional main event featured Umaga (representing Vince McMahon) and Bobby Lashley (representing future 45th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump) in a match billed as the "Battle of the Billionaires" in which the representative of the loser in the match would be shaved bald, whilst Stone Cold Steve Austin served as the Special Guest Referee. The Raw main event featured John Cena defending the WWE Championship against Shawn Michaels.
The event was notable for being the cite of the first WrestleMania to take place in a conventional football stadium since WrestleMania X7. The event was also notable for being the final one-on-one, singles match involving the women's division in WWE at a WrestleMania event until WrestleMania 34 over eleven years later when Charlotte Flair defended the SmackDown Live Women's Championship against Asuka.
The event was also notable for being the final WrestleMania featuring Chris Benoit, who would commit suicide in late-June of the same year after murdering his wife and young child in what has since become known as the "Benoit double murder-suicide." Due to the circumstances revolving around Benoit's death, the company ended their association with him shortly after his death in late-June of 2007, refusing to acknowledge him as having been a part of the company's history and publicly refusing to acknowledge his existence.
== Results ==
Match No. 	Result 	Stipulation
Dark Match 	Carlito and Ric Flair def. Chavo Guerrero and Gregory Helms 	Tag Team match (Only shown to the live crowd, not a part of the show's official broadcast)
Match No. 1	Mr. Kennedy def. CM Punk, Edge, Randy Orton, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, King Booker w/ Queen Sharmell, and Randy Orton 	2007 Money in the Bank Ladder match for a future WWE Championship or World Heavyweight Championship match
Match No. 2	The Great Khali def. Kane 	Singles match
Match No. 3	Chris Benoit (c) def. Montel Vontavious Porter 	Singles match for the United States Championship
Match No. 4	The Undertaker def. Batista (c) 	Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship
Match No. 5	The ECW Originals (Rob Van Dam, Tommy Dreamer, the Sandman, and Sabu) def. The New Breed (Elijah Burke, Marcus Cor Von, Matt Striker, and Kevin Thorne) w/ Ariel	Eight-Man Tag Team match
Match No. 6	Bobby Lashley w/ Donald Trump def. Umaga w/ Mr. McMahon 	Special Guest Referee match where the loser of the match's representative would be shaved bald. Stone Cold Steve Austin served as the match's special guest referee
Match No. 7	Melina (c) def. Ashley 	Singles match for the WWE Women's Championship
Match No. 8	John Cena (c) def. Shawn Michaels via submission 	Singles match for the WWE Championship