Backlash (2005)

Event
Backlash (2005) was the seventh annual Backlash professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on April 24, 2005, at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire. It was presented by Namco's Tekken 5. The show's eight matches showcased prominent WWE wrestlers, who acted out the franchise's stories in and out of the ring. The event starred talent from the Raw brand.

In the main event, John Cena defeated Chris Jericho in a singles match to retain the WWE Global Heavyweight Championship. From the seven scheduled bouts on the undercard, two received more promotion than the others. The first was a tag team match, in which Raven and Rhino and Harris Brothers (Ron Harris and Don Harris) for the WWE Global Tag Team Championship. The other was a Last Man Standing match, a match where a wrestler is unable to respond to a ten count by the referee would lose. Shawn Michaels defeated Booker T after Booker failed to get to his feet before the referee's count to ten.