The Great American Bash (2005)

Event
The Great American Bash (2005) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE). It was the second annual event and took place on June 19, 2005, at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. The event featured wrestlers and other talent that performed on the Raw, SmackDown! and Hardnitro program.

The main event was Bret Hart retaining the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Samoa Joe. Batista defending the WWE Grand Heavyweight Championship against Brock Lesnar. Lesnar won the match after Batista was disqualified, but did not win the title because a championship can only be won via pinfall or submission. One of the featured matches on the undercard was Randy Orton versus Ric Flair, which Orton won by pinfall. The other was The Rod versus Muhammad Hassan for the WWE United States Championship, which Hassan won, also by pinfall, after Rod was attacked by Scott Steiner.

The event grossed over US$375,000 in ticket sales from an attendance of 8,000, and received about 233,000 pay-per-view buys, the same amount as the following year's event. This enabled WWE's pay-per-view revenue to increase by $4.7 million from the previous year. When the 2005 event was released on DVD, it reached a peak position of second on Billboard's DVD Sales Chart. The event was also available free of charge for Armed Forces members and their families.