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WWE Backlash 2025 Review | ONE LAST TIME For John Cena And Randy Orton, Jeff Cobb DEBUTS

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The Solomonster

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Solomonster reviews WWE Backlash 2025 from St. Louis with the hometown boy, Randy Orton, challenging John Cena for the WWE championship in very likely their final match together.  This could have been pretty bad, but they actually had the best possible match you could ask out of them at this stage, plus Gunther vs. Pat McAfee, Becky Lynch against Lyra Valkyria, the debut of Jeff Cobb and more.

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0:00.0

WWE was live in St. Louis tonight for what they said could quite possibly be the final match ever between John Cena and Randy Orton, 31 world championships between these two men. They had their very first match in 2001 before they were even in WW.

0:19.3

This has been a long, as WWE would say, a storied rivalry between these two.

0:25.0

They want you so badly to believe this has been just an all-time classic feud.

0:30.8

Whatever you think of these two, wherever you think this feud falls in the history books of great feuds in WWE history. It was never one of my

0:40.1

favorites. But I didn't know what to expect tonight because it was really all about the crowd in

0:46.0

St. Louis. They were in Randy Orton's hometown. You cannot pick a better place to have

0:51.3

heal John Cena defend his championship against Randy Orton. I said coming into

0:56.0

the show, it was all going to come down to this crowd. This crowd, are they going to will this match

1:04.1

into an all-time classic? Is that enough to carry this match? Because what we have seen from

1:09.0

John Sina over the last several years,

1:11.7

and in particular even this year, since he, you know, won the championship and came back to

1:16.9

WWE, is a John Sina that is very different in ring from the one that we saw many years ago

1:22.9

in those earlier matches with Randy Orton.

1:25.6

This is a John Sina that has a ceiling to what he can do.

1:30.0

That much is clear.

1:31.6

So a lot of the heavy lifting would have to be done by Randy Orton in this match.

1:35.9

And they went out there tonight and they had a main event that I will say.

1:39.1

And I already saw some of the comments earlier in the chat.

1:42.1

And I agree that the main event tonight was better

1:46.2

than the main event that we got on night two of WrestleMania. And that should never happen,

1:51.9

by the way. But that is indeed what we got tonight. And I know it's a low bar to set. Okay,

1:58.0

we talked about how awful that main event was on night two at

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