The Great American Bash (2005)
The Great American Bash was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. It took place on July 24, 2005, at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. The event featured wrestlers and other talent that performed on the SmackDown! brand division. It grossed over US$375,000 in ticket sales from an attendance of 8,000, and received about 233,000 pay- per-view buys.
About The Great American Bash (2005) in brief
The Great American Bash was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. It took place on July 24, 2005, at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. The event featured wrestlers and other talent that performed on the SmackDown! brand division. The main event was Batista defending the World Heavyweight Championship against John “Bradshaw” Layfield. One of the featured matches on the undercard was Rey Mysterio versus Eddie Guerrero, which Mysterio won by pinfall. The other was Orlando Jordan versus Chris Benoit for the WWE United States Championship, which Jordan won, also bypinfall. It 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. When the 2005 event was released on DVD, it reached a peak position of second on Billboard’s DVD Sales Chart. It was the second Great American bash under WWE, and sixteenth overall. The third predominant feud prior to the event was betweenChris Benoit and Orlando Jordan for the United States title. The fourth and final event was the Greatest American Bash, which was held on July 28, 2006.
It featured a feud between Rey MysterIO and Eddie Guerrero. The fifth and final Great Americanbash was the Great American Brawl, held on August 2, 2006, in New York City. It also featured a match between ChrisBenoit and Booker T for the World Championship. The sixth and final Bash was the WWE Superstars vs. Superstars, which featured a rematch for the WWF World Championship between The Rock and The Undertaker. The seventh and final bash was the Superstars v Superstars event, held in New Jersey on August 8, 2006,. It featured matches between The Undertakers and The Rock. The final Bash event was held in Los Angeles on August 9, 2006; it was the first time the WWE had held a Superstars match on the WWE Network. The last Bash event took place in Las Vegas on August 11, 2007; it featured the WWE Cruiserweight Championship match between Rusev and The Miz. The Great American Blast was the last Bash to be held on WWE Network, and the first to be broadcast on WWE TV. The Bash was also the first event to be shown on TLC, with a special edition of the show premiering on October 1, 2007.
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