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Backlash (2025)
The 2025 Backlash, also promoted as Backlash: St. Louis, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 20th Backlash event and took place on May 10, 2025, at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The concept of the event was based around the backlash from WrestleMania 41.
Five matches were contested at the event. In the main event, John Cena defeated Randy Orton to retain SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Championship. In other prominent matches, Gunther defeated Pat McAfee by technical submission in what was a featured match for Raw, Lyra Valkyria successfully defended Raw's WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship against Becky Lynch, Dominik Mysterio retained Raw's WWE Intercontinental Championship against Penta, and in the opening bout, Jacob Fatu defeated LA Knight, Damian Priest, and Drew McIntyre in a fatal four-way match to retain SmackDown's WWE United States Championship. The event featured the WWE debut of Jeff Cobb, whose ring name was subsequently changed to JC Mateo. This was also Cena's first appearance at a Backlash event since 2009, as well as his last Backlash appearance as an in-ring performer due to his retirement from professional wrestling at the end of 2025.
Backlash is a recurring professional wrestling event that was established by WWE in 1999. It was held annually from 1999 to 2009, but was then discontinued until it was reinstated in 2016 and has been held every year since, except in 2019. The original concept of the event was based around the backlash from WWE's flagship event, WrestleMania. The events between 2016 and 2020 did not carry this theme; however, the 2021 show returned the event to its original concept.
On March 14, 2025, WWE announced that the 20th Backlash, promoted as "Backlash St. Louis", would take place on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. In addition to airing on traditional pay-per-view (PPV) worldwide and via livestreaming on Peacock in the United States, the event was available to livestream on Netflix in most international markets and the WWE Network in any remaining countries that had not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marked the first Backlash to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas. Tickets went on sale on March 21 via Ticketmaster.
The event includes matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.
In the main event of Night 2 of WrestleMania 41, John Cena won the Undisputed WWE Championship to become a record 17-time WWE world champion. On the following Raw, Cena gloated about his win only for his long-time rival Randy Orton to attack Cena with an RKO. On SmackDown that Friday, as Cena was about to cut another promo, he was interrupted by Orton, who tried to reason with the now villainous Cena, who had turned heel at Elimination Chamber: Toronto back in March. After an exchange of words, Orton challenged Cena to a match for his championship that night; however, Cena declined, stating that the match should happen in Orton's hometown of St. Louis at Backlash. The match was subsequently made official, and was billed as "One Last Time".
Prior to Night 1 of WrestleMania 41, Bayley, who was supposed to team up with Lyra Valkyria for a WWE Women's Tag Team Championship match on Night 2 of the event, was found attacked backstage by an unknown assailant, requiring Valkyria to find a new partner. On Night 2, Becky Lynch made a surprise return as Valkyria's mystery partner and they won the Women's Tag Team Championship. However, in a rematch the next night on Raw, they lost the title with Valkyria taking the pin. Following the match, Lynch attacked Valkyria, turning heel for the first time since 2022. The following week, Lynch revealed that she was the one who attacked Bayley, and she also stated that she attacked Valkyria because of Valkyria's friendship with Bayley, whom Lynch had numerous problems with in recent years. Valkyria interrupted and challenged Lynch to fight her that night, however, Lynch declined. Valkyria then decided to defend her Women's Intercontinental Championship against Lynch at Backlash, who subsequently accepted.
On the Raw the night after WrestleMania 41, Gunther came out and argued with commentators Michael Cole and Pat McAfee as Gunther felt disrespected by them following his loss at WrestleMania. Gunther then attacked Cole which led to McAfee attacking Gunther in Cole's defense, however, Gunther managed to overpower McAfee and choked him out. Gunther was subsequently fined and suspended by Raw General Manager Adam Pearce. The following week, McAfee wanted to fight Gunther and asked SmackDown's General Manager Nick Aldis, who was subbing for Pearce that night, to lift Gunther's suspension. Aldis declined and instead proposed a match between them at Backlash, which McAfee accepted.
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Backlash (2025)
The 2025 Backlash, also promoted as Backlash: St. Louis, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 20th Backlash event and took place on May 10, 2025, at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The concept of the event was based around the backlash from WrestleMania 41.
Five matches were contested at the event. In the main event, John Cena defeated Randy Orton to retain SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Championship. In other prominent matches, Gunther defeated Pat McAfee by technical submission in what was a featured match for Raw, Lyra Valkyria successfully defended Raw's WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship against Becky Lynch, Dominik Mysterio retained Raw's WWE Intercontinental Championship against Penta, and in the opening bout, Jacob Fatu defeated LA Knight, Damian Priest, and Drew McIntyre in a fatal four-way match to retain SmackDown's WWE United States Championship. The event featured the WWE debut of Jeff Cobb, whose ring name was subsequently changed to JC Mateo. This was also Cena's first appearance at a Backlash event since 2009, as well as his last Backlash appearance as an in-ring performer due to his retirement from professional wrestling at the end of 2025.
Backlash is a recurring professional wrestling event that was established by WWE in 1999. It was held annually from 1999 to 2009, but was then discontinued until it was reinstated in 2016 and has been held every year since, except in 2019. The original concept of the event was based around the backlash from WWE's flagship event, WrestleMania. The events between 2016 and 2020 did not carry this theme; however, the 2021 show returned the event to its original concept.
On March 14, 2025, WWE announced that the 20th Backlash, promoted as "Backlash St. Louis", would take place on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. In addition to airing on traditional pay-per-view (PPV) worldwide and via livestreaming on Peacock in the United States, the event was available to livestream on Netflix in most international markets and the WWE Network in any remaining countries that had not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marked the first Backlash to livestream on Netflix following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas. Tickets went on sale on March 21 via Ticketmaster.
The event includes matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.
In the main event of Night 2 of WrestleMania 41, John Cena won the Undisputed WWE Championship to become a record 17-time WWE world champion. On the following Raw, Cena gloated about his win only for his long-time rival Randy Orton to attack Cena with an RKO. On SmackDown that Friday, as Cena was about to cut another promo, he was interrupted by Orton, who tried to reason with the now villainous Cena, who had turned heel at Elimination Chamber: Toronto back in March. After an exchange of words, Orton challenged Cena to a match for his championship that night; however, Cena declined, stating that the match should happen in Orton's hometown of St. Louis at Backlash. The match was subsequently made official, and was billed as "One Last Time".
Prior to Night 1 of WrestleMania 41, Bayley, who was supposed to team up with Lyra Valkyria for a WWE Women's Tag Team Championship match on Night 2 of the event, was found attacked backstage by an unknown assailant, requiring Valkyria to find a new partner. On Night 2, Becky Lynch made a surprise return as Valkyria's mystery partner and they won the Women's Tag Team Championship. However, in a rematch the next night on Raw, they lost the title with Valkyria taking the pin. Following the match, Lynch attacked Valkyria, turning heel for the first time since 2022. The following week, Lynch revealed that she was the one who attacked Bayley, and she also stated that she attacked Valkyria because of Valkyria's friendship with Bayley, whom Lynch had numerous problems with in recent years. Valkyria interrupted and challenged Lynch to fight her that night, however, Lynch declined. Valkyria then decided to defend her Women's Intercontinental Championship against Lynch at Backlash, who subsequently accepted.
On the Raw the night after WrestleMania 41, Gunther came out and argued with commentators Michael Cole and Pat McAfee as Gunther felt disrespected by them following his loss at WrestleMania. Gunther then attacked Cole which led to McAfee attacking Gunther in Cole's defense, however, Gunther managed to overpower McAfee and choked him out. Gunther was subsequently fined and suspended by Raw General Manager Adam Pearce. The following week, McAfee wanted to fight Gunther and asked SmackDown's General Manager Nick Aldis, who was subbing for Pearce that night, to lift Gunther's suspension. Aldis declined and instead proposed a match between them at Backlash, which McAfee accepted.