IWE WrestleMania 23

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WrestleMania 23
Promotional poster featuring the Main Event Matches involved
Tagline(s)	All Grown Up
Theme song(s)	"Ladies and Gentlemen" by Saliva "The Memory Will Never Die" by Default
Imformation
Promotion	International Wrestling Entertainment
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown! XCW
Date	April 1, 2007
Attendance	80,103
Venue	Ford Field
City	Detroit, Michigan
Pay-per-view chronology
No Way Out (2007)	WrestleMania 23	Backlash (2007)
WrestleMania chronology
WrestleMania 22	WrestleMania 23	WrestleMania XXIV

WrestleMania 23 was the twenty-third annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by International Wrestling Entertainment (IWE). It took place on April 1, 2007 at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The event was the first WrestleMania at Ford Field and the second to take place in the Detroit metropolitan area (following WrestleMania III, at the Pontiac Silverdome, in Pontiac, Michigan).

The event was a joint-brand pay-per-view, featuring performers from the Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW brands. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's supercard, a scheduling of more than one main event. The main match on the Raw brand was [[Dustin Simpson versus Ryan Barnhart for the IWE Championship, in which Simpson won The predominant match on the SmackDown! brand was Jesse Dern versus The Undertaker for the World Heavyweight Championship, in which The Undertaker was victorious. The primary match on the XCW brand was an Eight Man Tag Team match between The XCW Originals and The New Breed; The XCW Originals claimed victory in the match. The featured matches on the undercard included Bobby Ashley versus Umaga

Tickets for the event went on sale on November 11, 2006. The all-time Ford Field attendance record of 80,103 consisted of people from all fifty states, twenty-four countries, and nine Canadian provinces, making it the second highest attendance at a WWE event, behind WrestleMania 3. WrestleMania 23 grossed US$5.38 million in ticket sales, breaking the previous record of $3.9 million held at WrestleMania X8.

Contents 1 Background 2 Event 2.1 Production 2.2 Pre-show 2.3 Preliminary matches 2.4 Main event matches 3 Aftermath 3.1 Reception 4 Results

Background

Event

Production

Pre-show

Preliminary matches

Main event matches

Aftermath

Reception

Results

#	Results	Stipulations
Dark	Ric Flair and Michael defeated Gregory Beasly and Chavo McAlmond	Tag team lumberjack match1
1	Mr. Kennedy defeated Edge, Justin Eldridge, King Booker (with Queen Tia), Josh Hooper, Matt Hooper, Finlay (with Hornswoggle) and Kevin McAlmond	Money in the Bank ladder match
2	Reg Hageman defeated Kane	Singles match
3	Kevin Hunter (c) defeated Mikhail Vontavious Porter	Singles match for the IWE United States Championship
4	The Undertaker defeated Jesse Dern (c)	Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship
5	The XCW Originals (Kyle Van Dam, Tommy Brown, Jason Dikes and The Sandman) defeated The New Breed ('Elijah' Jared Burk, Jacob Cor Von, Matt Striker and Kevin Thorn) (with Ariel)	8-man tag team match
6	Bobby Ashley (with Donald Trump) defeated Umaga (with Grant Mayer and Armando Alejandro Estrada)	Hair vs. Hair match with special guest referee Steve Johnson
7	Denise (c) defeated Ashley Bates	Lumberjill match for the IWE Women's Championship2
8	Dustin Simpson (c) defeated Ryan Barnhart	Singles match for the IWE Championship

¹The lumberjacks were: Kiscera, Luke Gaspard, LTG, James Masters, Junior Remeriz, Jared Keller, Robbie, Rory, Super Crazy, Val Venis, Johnny Linderman, Jim Duggan, Kip, Collin McCullough, Phillip Legg and Kenny Dykstra from Raw; Daivari, Shane Langini, Travis Capps, Deuce Dim, Domino Godfather, Paul Burdick, Brian Woods, Joe Smith, Veto, Scotty 2 Hotty, William Kapphan, Dave Taylor, Jimmy Wang Yang, James Noble and Shoichi Park from SmackDown; and Balls Mahoney, Richard Veach, Little Guido Maritato, Hardcore Murnion and Dominic from XCW.
²The lumberjills were: Sari Pasma, Victoria, Dixie Hooper, Ali Richards, Katie Katie, Trinity, Jessica Wilson, Rikki Berg, Krystal Gilding, Amanda Johnson, Amy Ketchum and Courtney Savoie.