WrestleMania 22

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WrestleMania 22
Promotion	WWF
Date	April 2, 2006
Venue	Allstate Arena
City	Rosemont, Illinois
Attendance	17,159
Last Event	No Way Out
Next Event	Backlash

WrestleMania 22 was the twenty-second annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on April 2 2006 at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago, Illinois suburb of Rosemont. The event was the third WrestleMania to take place in the Chicago metropolitan area (following WrestleMania 2, and WrestleMania 13). Tickets sold out in under two minutes, grossing US$2.5 million for the event, making it the highest grossing one-day event at the Allstate Arena. More than 17,155 people from 16 countries and 43 U.S. states attended, with millions more watching in more than 90 countries.

WrestleMania 22 was a joint-promotion pay-per-view event, featuring performers from the Raw and SmackDown! brands. The tagline for WrestleMania 22 was "Big Time". The official theme song for the event was "Big Time" by Peter Gabriel. Secondary theme songs included "I Dare You" by Shinedown, "Save Me Sorrow" by Bullets and Octane, and "Baby Hates Me" by Danko Jones.^[1]

Results

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• 'Dark match: Viscera won an 18-man Interpromotional Battle Royal featuring: Eugene, Goldust, Snitsky, Tyson Tomko, Rob Conway, Lance Cade, Trevor Murdoch, Matt Striker from Raw and Super Crazy, Psicosis, Funaki, Steven Richards, Johnny Nitro, Joey Mercury, The Road Warrior, William Regal, Simon Dean from SmackDown!
  • Viscera eliminated Snitsky last to win after Snitsky missed a Big Boot. (9:00)
• Kane and The Big Show defeated Carlito and Chris Masters to retain the World Tag Team Championship (6:41)
  • Kane pinned Carlito after a chokeslam.
• Rob Van Dam defeated Shelton Benjamin, Ric Flair, Finlay, Matt Hardy and Bobby Lashley in a Money in the Bank ladder match (12:21)
  • Van Dam won by climbing a ladder and taking possession of the briefcase hanging above the ring.
  • During the match, Ric Flair was superplexed off of a ladder by Matt Hardy and was taken out of the match, though he later returned to finish it.
• Howard Finkel introduced the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2006:
  • "Mean" Gene Okerlund, "Sensational" Sherri Martel, Tony Atlas, Verne Gagne, William "The Refrigerator" Perry and The Blackjacks (Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza). The eighth inductee, Bret Hart, did not attend the event. The ninth inductee, Eddie Guerrero, was represented by his widow Vickie, who was escorted out to the stage by Guerrero's nephew Chavo Guerrero.
• John "Bradshaw" Layfield (w/Jillian Hall) defeated Chris Benoit to win the WWE United States Championship (9:44)
  • Layfield pinned Benoit after flipping him over on his back during a Crippler Crossface and holding onto the middle rope.
• Edge (w/Lita) defeated Mick Foley in a Hardcore match (14:37)
  • Edge pinned Foley after a Spear off the apron and through a flaming table on the outside.
• The Boogeyman defeated Booker T and Sharmell in a Handicap match (3:52)
  • Boogeyman pinned Booker after a Falling Chokebomb.
• Mickie James defeated Trish Stratus to win the WWE Women's Championship (8:48)
  • James pinned Stratus after a Mick Kick.
• The Undertaker defeated Mark Henry in a Casket match (9:26)
  • Undertaker rolled Henry into the casket after hitting him with the Tombstone Piledriver.
• Shawn Michaels defeated Vince McMahon in a No Holds Barred match (18:28)
  • Michaels pinned McMahon after Sweet Chin Music.
  • During the match, both the Spirit Squad and Shane McMahon interfered on McMahon's behalf.
• Rey Mysterio defeated Kurt Angle (c) and Randy Orton in a Triple Threat match to win the World Heavyweight Championship (9:18)
  • Mysterio pinned Orton after a 619 and a West Coast Pop.
  • P.O.D. performed Mysterio's entrance music live.
• Torrie Wilson defeated Candice Michelle in a Playboy Pillow fight (3:54)
  • Wilson pinned Michelle with a roll-up.
• John Cena defeated Triple H to retain the WWE Championship^[2][3] (22:02)
  • Cena forced Triple H to submit with the STFU.
  • Triple H came out on a throne dressed as a Conan the Barbarian-type king.
  • Cena came out with a tommy gun accompanied by a group of "gangsters" in a 1940s Chicago-era vehicle.

Notes

• Other celebrity guests in attendance for WrestleMania 22 included Joe Theismann and P.O.D..
• WrestleMania 22 marked the first WrestleMania not to feature the winner of the Royal Rumble in the final match of the night since WrestleMania XV in 1999.
• One of the gangsters in John Cena's entrance was CM Punk, who was wrestling in WWE's "farm territory" Ohio Valley Wrestling at the time.^[3]
• There were two alternate logos released for the event before the third and final logo was decided. The first^[4] and second^[5] logos were similar to that of WrestleMania 21 and were released in promotional videos and advertisements. The third and final logo released is the first since WrestleMania XV to make use of the classic font from the first fifteen WrestleMania events.
• This WrestleMania, along with the preceding two, would all take place from the three locations that hosted WrestleMania 2, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles (This one from Chicago, WrestleMania XX from New York, and WrestleMania 21 from Los Angeles.
• WrestleMania 22 marked the last Wrestlemania event not to be hosted in a football stadium, with WrestleMania 23 being hosted in Michigan's Ford Field, Wrestlemania XXIV being hosted in Florida's Citrus Bowl, and Wrestlemania XXV being hosted in Texas's Reliant Stadium.

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