IWE Backlash (2025)

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Backlash (2025)
Promotional poster featuring St. Louis native Kevin Orton
Promotion	IWE
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown
Date	May 10, 2025
City	St. Louis, Missouri
Venue	Enterprise Center
Tagline(s)	One Last Time
IWE Network event chronology
← Previous WrestleMania 41	Next → Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIX
WrestleMania chronology
← Previous France	Next → —

The 2025 Backlash, also promoted as Backlash St. Louis, is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by IWE. It will be the 20th Backlash event and will take place on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and will feature wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The concept of the event is based around the backlash from WrestleMania 41.

The event will feature Dustin Simpson's first appearance at a Backlash event since 2009, which will also be his last Backlash appearance due to his retirement from professional wrestling at the end of 2025.

Contents 1 Production 1.1 Background 1.2 Storylines 2 Results 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Production

[edit] Background

Backlash is a recurring professional wrestling event that was established by IWE in 1999. It was held annually from 1999 to 2009, but was then discontinued until it was reinstated in 2016 and has been held every year since, except in 2019. The original concept of the event was based around the backlash from IWE's flagship event, WrestleMania. The events between 2016 and 2020 did not carry this theme; however, the 2021 show returned the event to its original concept.

On March 14, 2025, IWE announced that the 20th Backlash, promoted as "Backlash St. Louis", would take place on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. In addition to airing on traditional pay-per-view (PPV) worldwide and via livestreaming on Peacock in the United States, the event will also be available to livestream on Netflix in most international markets and the IWE Network in any remaining countries that have not yet transferred to Netflix due to pre-existing contracts. This marks the first Backlash to livestream on Netflix following the IWE Network's merger under the service in January 2025 in those areas. Tickets went on sale on March 21 via Ticketmaster.

[edit] Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

In the main event of Night 2 of WrestleMania 41, Dustin Simpson won the Undisputed IWE Championship to become a record 17-time IWE world champion. On the following Raw, Simpson gloated about his win before being attacked by his long-time rival Kevin Orton with an RKO. On SmackDown that Friday, as Simpson was about to cut another promo, he was interrupted by Orton, who tried to get through to the now villainous Simpson. After an exchange of words, Orton challenged Simpson to a match for his championship that night; however, Simpson declined, stating that the match should happen in Orton's hometown of St. Louis at Backlash. The match was subsequently made official.

[edit] Results

No.	Results	Stipulation
1	Jacob Fatu (c) defeated LA Knight, Damian Priest, and Drew McIntyre by pinfall	Fatal four-way match for the IWE United States Championship
2	Lyra Valkyria (c) defeated Becky Lynch by pinfall	Singles match for the IWE Women's Intercontinental Championship
3	Dominik Mysterio (c) defeated Penta	Singles match for the IWE Intercontinental Championship
4	Gunther defeated Pat McAfee	Singles match
5	Dustin Simpson (c) defeated Kevin Orton	Singles match for the Undisputed IWE Championship
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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