WWE Wrestlemania 25 (04.05.2009) (Wrestling Review)

WWE

Wrestlemania 25

Houston, Texas

April 5th, 2009

 

Money In The Bank Ladder Match
CM Punk vs. Finlay (w/Hornswoggle) vs. Kane vs. Mark Henry (w/Tony Atlas) vs. Montel Vontavious Porter vs. Christian vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Kofi Kingston

A solid opening match that was a Money In The Bank. It didn’t go for the insane spots that most these matches have and instead just did a lot of big dive moves. A safer but much less memorable thing to do honestly. 

3 / 5

Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal
Miss Jackie vs. Sunny vs. Mickie James vs. Molly Holly vs. Victoria vs. Torrie Wilson vs. Katie Lea vs. Gail Kim vs. Beth Phoenix vs. Jillian Hall vs. Layla vs. Joy Giovanni vs. Michelle McCool vs. Maria vs. Melina vs. Natalya vs. Maryse vs. Kelly Kelly vs. Alicia Fox vs. Santina Marella vs. Rosa Mendes vs. Brie Bella vs. Nikki Bella vs. Eve Torres vs. Tiffany

 A horrible match that set back womens wrestling. There isn’t anything else to say about it. Lowest possible rating. 

.01 / 5

Three On One Handicap Elimination Match
Jimmy Snuka, Ricky Steamboat & Roddy Piper (w/Ric Flair) vs. Chris Jericho

Steamboat was good here for being 56 years old and would a few months later have his final WWE match. Piper and Snuka had no place being in a ring at this point. 

1.5 / 5

Extreme Rules Match
Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy

A fine Extreme Rules match here between the Hardyz. Some good big spots here that just took a while to happen. Crowd was into it but didn’t feel like they fully liked this feud of Matt vs Jeff happening. 

3 / 5

Intercontinental Title Match
John Bradshaw Layfield (c) vs. Rey Mysterio

Squash

.5 / 5

Singles Match
The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels

A 5 star match and at this point the closest we had to thinking the streak would end. This was a classic match of two of the best ever giving it  all they had in a match. They used the formula which wasn’t super common back then of kicking out a lot after a finisher which worked great here to show just how badly both wanted the win. The big spots like Taker leaping to the outside and almost landing on his neck are memorable down to little stuff like the facial expressions after a kick out. The crowd even cheered for minutes after this match that showed just how great it was. 

5 / 5

World Heavyweight Title Triple Threat Match
Edge (w/Chavo Guerrero & Vickie Guerrero) (c) vs. John Cena vs. The Big Show

A good finish but thats about it. A generic triple threat otherwise. Edge vs Cena would have been better and the title run at this point meant almost nothing. 

2.5 / 5

WWE Heavyweight Title Match
Triple H (c) vs. Randy Orton

At almost 25 minutes this was boring and the crowd didn’t care. Its such a shame given both guys are legends but this was an awful main event. It never flowed well and just no one could get into it. 

1.5 / 5

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