WrestleMania 25

WrestleMania 25, also promoted as The 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania, was a 2009 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the 25th annual WrestleMania and took place on April 5, 2009, at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brand divisions. This was the second WrestleMania held in Houston, after WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001 at the Reliant Astrodome. This would also be the last WrestleMania to feature the ECW brand, as it was dissolved in February 2010, and it was the first WrestleMania of the PG Era.

Eight matches were held on the event's card, which featured a supercard, a scheduling of more than one main bout. The final match of the night was a singles match in which Triple H defeated Randy Orton to retain SmackDown's WWE Championship. Another main match was a triple threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship, which was also briefly on SmackDown at the time, and saw Raw's John Cena defeat defending champion Edge and Big Show to win the championship and subsequently transfer the title to Raw. The main match of the ECW brand, which occurred during the pre-show, saw SmackDown's WWE Tag Team Champions The Colóns (Carlito and Primo) defeat ECW's World Tag Team Champions John Morrison and The Miz in a lumberjack match to unify the two championships as the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship; both titles remained independently active but could be defended on any brand under the unification. Another marquee match saw The Undertaker defeat Shawn Michaels to extend his undefeated WrestleMania streak to 17–0. Featured matches on the undercard included Matt Hardy defeating Jeff Hardy in an Extreme Rules match, Chris Jericho defeated the team of Roddy Piper, Ricky Steamboat, and Jimmy Snuka, and the annual Money in the Bank ladder match, which was won by CM Punk over Christian, Finlay, Kane, Kofi Kingston, Mark Henry, Montel Vontavious Porter, and Shelton Benjamin.