WWE SmackDown Results – 4/25/25 (WrestleMania Fall Out, John Cena, TLC Title Match)
WWE SmackDown ResultsApril 25, 2025Dixies Arena in Fort Worth, TexasCommentary: Wade Barrett and Joe TessitoreResults by Roy Nemer of Wrestleview.com
Then. Now. Forever. Together hits the screen.
We cut to an aerial shot outside of the arena and to The Street Profits, The Motor City Machine Guns and DIY all entering the arena. The camera cuts to the new United States Champion Jacob Fatu along with Solo Sikoa entering the arena. We see the WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton backstage.
WrestleMania 41 highlights air.
John Cena and Randy Orton
Back live in the arena, John Cena’s music and a loud “John Cena sucks” chant from the crowd. The ring announcer Mark Nash introduces Cena to the ring and Cena comes out with the Undisputed WWE Championship backwards around his waist, holding his “The last time is now” towel behind his head. He gets in the ring and raises the title in the air and points to the ring announcer Mark Nash who gets in the ring.
Cena hands him a piece of paper and the fans chant “Let’s go Cena, Cena sucks”. Nash looks at Cena who is looking at the crowd. Cena walks around the ring and shakes his head. Nash reads off the paper “My sincerest apologies. I have been informed again that my announcement has been deemed disrespectful. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the greatest of all time, the 17, gracing Fort Worth with his presence for the final time, the last real champion… John Cena!” The fans boo as Cena raises the belt in the air and Nash leaves the ring.
As Cena is about to speak, Randy Orton’s music hits and out he comes to the ring with the fans singing his theme music.
Orton asks for a microphone and looks at Cena as the fans chant “Randy”. Cena holds the title belt up and the fans boo him. Orton asks Cena if he knows what he found out. In a couple of months, it will be 25 years to the day since they first shook hands. Orton tells Cena he has known him for 25 years and he means that as a compliment, Cena never changed. He was always about hustle, loyalty and respect. It was a way of life. He began to think and he realized that there was a void in Cena’s life and he started to think. Orton says he thought about the fans over the years, the millions and millions of kids who looked up to him since day one. All the days that he motivated and was a role model for, the kids set goals because of him. Track and field, on the court, in the class rooms, generations of kids looked up to Cena. Surely, that means something to Cena. Orton tells Cena that he granted more wishes than anyone in the history of the Grant a Wish foundation. Orton tells Cena that he knows him too well and Cena can’t tell him that every kid left with a piece of his heart, they were not just a number. And Orton figured out how to fill the void.
He tells Cena that Cena needs to have some kids. Orton asks to imagine little square jawed, thick Cena’s running around. The world would be a better place and he tells Cena to have kids, grow up and be a better human being.
Cena tells Orton “How dare you?” He tells Orton that he is parent shaming him and congratulates him for having children and loving them. Cena tells Orton the real reason he doesn’t have kids is because he spent the last 25 years “raising yours”, says Cena as he looks in the camera. And by the sound of everyone tonight, he has done an impeccable job. He says for the last 25 years, he has been a better parent to the kids than the parents could ever be. He looks at a kid in the crowd and tells him that his dad is a loser. The kid flips Cena off and Cena tells him he is very classy. Cena tells Orton that he has been policing brats for a quarter of a century. He tells the kid never to bring a knife to a gun fight and his dad probably never taught him that.
Orton tells him the fans are the reason why he is in Hollywood right now and crushing it. Without WWE, there is no Hollywood and without the fans, there is no WWE. No matter the math, the fans are the biggest reason why Cena is standing in the ring with him. Orton says he has made a lot of mistakes but he can go in the back, hold his head high and he gets respect. He is a piece of furniture, he is here to stay but Cena is a guest.
Cena tells Orton they all have their perspectives. He used to believe Orton in that without the fans, there is no WWE. That they won together but he was wrong. He never needed a single one of the fans. They will chant “Let’s go Cena, Cena sucks”. And the fans begin chanting that.
Cena says imagine being told you suck for 25 years. He says Orton is just like the fans, all hypocrites. Cena says if the roles are reversed and he put his energy into anything but the WWE, he is an outcast and a guest. This is why this is dysfunctional, why it’s not a functional relationship. They are all manipulating the truth because they have done nothing in their lives. Cena points to a fan and says all that fan has done is dress like Jack Black. He is 100 years old and that’s all that fan has to say for his life. Cena says he gets criticized and labelled as an outcast for trying to do something different.
Orton tells him that Orton was stupid to come out and think that in this weird world, Cena would listen to what he is saying. He says that before Cody’s music hits, we hear Cody say “Wrestling has more than one royal family”. Cody is not just talking about Cody’s family but his family too. Wrestling has given Orton everything. It will provide for him, his children too. He tells Cena he won’t ruin wrestling and Cena tells him to shut his mouth. He tells Orton that Orton does not understand.
Cena says he already won 17, Orton has won 14 but after Cena takes it home, Orton is forever frozen at 14. There will be another show, other matches, they will create some tin foil Champion and if Orton wins it, Orton’s counter starts at one. What he is trying to do is that when he leaves, to make sure three generations of Orton’s family is erased.
Orton rubs his head and the fans chant “RKO”. Orton tells Cena to prove that he is the last real champion and to put his title on the line right now. Cena raises the belt and says no and just like so many times over the last 25 years, he is doing it to save Orton’s ass. Cena says there should be a match. Randy Orton against John Cena for the Undisputed Championship but it should not happen here. It should happen at Backlash because Backlash is in St. Louis because Orton is from St. Louis. Cena tells Orton he can spend the whole day with his family, be well rested and at his best because he needs Randy Orton at his best. Because after Backlash, when Orton fails, Orton will have no excuses. Cena tells Orton to take a good look, this is what the last real Champion looks like.
Cena tells Orton that this is as close as Orton will ever get to the Championship. Cena throws the belt at Orton who catches it but Cena with a right hand. Orton goes down and Cena begins kicking him. Cena grabs the belt, Orton gets up, Cena swings, Orton ducks and Orton hits him with an RKO! The fans chant “Randy” as he grabs the Undisputed title and raises it in the air as his music hits.
We cut to Wade Barrett and Joe Tessitore. Joe mentions that Fraxiom of NXT have arrived to SmackDown and we see a Fraxiom video package.
A solid opening between John Cena and Randy Orton. They mentioned 25 years but crazy how we have been watching them on the main shows for about 23 years. Still two of the biggest stars. Cena against Orton, one last time! #SmackDown
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