The 2025 Backlash, also promoted as Backlash St. Louis, was a professional wrestling pay-per-view and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 20th Backlash event and took place on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The concept of the event was based around the backlash from WrestleMania 41.
Five matches were contested at the event. In the main event, John Cena defeated Randy Orton to retain SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Championship. From Wikipedia