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Randy Orton To Challenge John Cena For Undisputed WWE Championship At WWE Backlash

Wrestling WWE
Robert DeFelice Apr 25, 2025 8:41PM

John Cena and Randy Orton are going to fight one last time for the Undisputed WWE Championship at WWE Backlash in St. Louis.

John Cena and Randy Orton, over the last 20 years, have been the yin to each other's yang. Countless matches between the two have taken place, several of which have taken place on WWE PLEs. Now, they run it back one more time for the WWE's richest prize at WWE Backlash in Randy Orton's hometown of St. Louis.

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The match was announced during an intense segment on the April 25 episode of WWE SmackDown. Randy Orton tried to reason with John Cena, imploring that he has children, which gives him perspective and makes him a better person. John said that he didn't have children because he's been raising everyone else's children for the last 25 years.

John reiterated that he's going to ruin wrestling, take the WWE Championship home, and erase three legacies of Orton's family. John then made the challenge himself, saying that he wants to do the match in Randy's own hometown. He wants Randy to spend the whole day with his family and then embarrass him in front of his family. He then tossed the WWE Championship to Randy and attacked him, but Randy got the better of it and hit John with his second RKO in four days.

Now, all roads lead to St Louis as these two icons of the WWE Ruthless Aggression Era clash. The roles are reversed, but the rivalry will persist.

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