WrestleMania 21

WrestleMania 21
Promotional poster featuring various WWE wrestlers
Tagline(s)	WrestleMania goes Hollywood
Theme song(s)	"Bigtime" by The Soundtrack of Our Lives "Behind Those Eyes" by 3 Doors Down
Information
Promotion	World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown!
Sponsor(s)	Snickers
Date	April 3, 2005 (2005-04-03)
Attendance	20,193
Venue	Staples Center
City	Los Angeles, California
Pay-per-view chronology
No Way Out (2005) WrestleMania 21 Backlash (2005)
WrestleMania chronology
WrestleMania XX WrestleMania 21 WrestleMania 22

WrestleMania 21 was the twenty-first annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was presented by Snickers and took place on April 3, 2005, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

The event was a joint-promotion pay-per-view, featuring performers from the Raw and SmackDown brands. The main match on the Raw brand was Triple H versus Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship, which Batista won by pinfall after executing a Batista Bomb. The predominant match on the SmackDown brand was John "Bradshaw" Layfield versus John Cena for the WWE Championship, which Cena won by pinfall after performing an FU. Another primary match was an interpromotional match between The Undertaker versus Randy Orton, which Undertaker won by pinfall after performing a Tombstone Piledriver. The featured matches on the undercard were Kurt Angle versus Shawn Michaels and a Money in the Bank ladder match. The event also featured the return of Stone Cold Steve Austin who started his part-time appearances with WWE at this event.