John Cena and the Biggest Winners and Losers from WWE WrestleMania 2025 Results

WWE concluded its annual Showcase of the Immortals Sunday night in Las Vegas with an improved night two of WrestleMania, but still one that left plenty to be desired.

The show, like any production from wrestling's most prominent promotion, had its share of winners and losers, but none bigger than the record-breaking 17-time champion, John Cena.

What side did Cena find himself on and who joined him there?

Find out with this recap of the Show of Shows.

The opening match of WrestleMania Sunday, the Triple Threat Match for the Women's World Championship, was so good that the overall quality of the entire two-night spectacle dips incrementally without it.

Three of the best wrestlers in all of WWE, regardless of the division, rolled up to the biggest show of the year, delivered a Match of the Year candidate right out of the gate, and essentially dared any other contest on the card to top it.

Nothing could.

Sky, Ripley, and Belair upped their value to the company with a main event-worthy match. A nonstop instant classic with innovative spots, great individual performances, and a layered story within, it was every bit the match most hoped for when it was announced, exceeding even the loftiest of expectations.

All despite the clunky creative that preceded it.

A year ago, Bayley won the Royal Rumble, headed to WrestleMania, and defeated Iyo Sky for the WWE Women's Championship. This year, she was slated to team with Lyra Valkyria to challenge Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez for the Women's Tag Team Championship.

While that may not have been the most appealing role for her at the biggest show of the year, it at least got her on the card. Until it did not.

Saturday night, WWE revealed that due to an attack by an unknown assailant, Bayley would not be able to compete and that Valkyria would have to find another opponent. Sunday night, that partner was revealed to be Becky Lynch, who pinned Morgan and won gold for the Irish duo.

Despite the win and the excitement surrounding Lynch's victory, one could not help but feel for Bayley, who had put in tremendous time and effort in recent months, working across three different brand and rarely taking a night off, only to be pulled from the WrestleMania card in favor of one for the Four Horsewomen whose shadow she has long been in.

The Role Model is an elite talent who has earned better than that treatment. She should be in a high-profile spot at WrestleMania, competing for championships, not a late scratch from a card she barely snuck onto in the first place.

WWE might have something planned for her but based on how her title reign played out last year and how everything has gone since, it would not be wise to hold one's breath.

Karrion Kross had an eventful week, first wrestling AJ Styles on Monday's Raw to rave reviews, then appearing at Josh Barnett's Bloodsport show on Thursday night, winning in front of his hometown fans, friends, and family.

Sunday night at WrestleMania, he continued his program with Styles, appearing in the middle of The Phenomenal One's match with Logan Paul and imploring "Allen" to use a pair of brass knuckles to defeat the social media star.

Styles refused and lost the match, making Kross' point that he should have turned to his evil ways and done what was necessary to win for the future of the company.

Kross has been in the background, consistently encouraging fan-favorites to give into their intuition and do what they feel is necessary, even if it goes against character. Sometimes he has been successful, other times, he has not.

His recent return to the ring and the actual, sustained program with Styles appears to have expanded his role on the Raw brand, where he should oppose The Phenomenal One for the foreseeable future, further raising his stock and potentially setting him on course for that push that has long eluded him.

Beginning with his appearance Sunday night in Las Vegas.

John Cena is one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. No one has faced the scrutiny from fans that he did in his career and still went to work, improved his game, became a generational Superstar and the most decorated champion of all time like he did.

He earned the people's respect through hard work and dedication to his art.

With that said, it was abundantly clear Sunday night that the now-17-time champion does not have much left in the tank. He was slow, clearly losing several steps as he squared off with one of the men who supplanted him as the top babyface in WWE, Cody Rhodes.

The action was dull and when the match runs 25 minutes in the marquee spot on the biggest card of the year, that is problematic and made more so by the convoluted finish involving Travis Scott, who took half a week to walk down the entrance ramp before finally eating the Cross Rhodes everyone knew was coming.

The crowd responded favorably to Cena's title win, mostly out of respect they have for the longtime superhero of WWE, but there was nothing about the match to like and the prospects of Cena working long premium live event headliners feels like a chore if Sunday was any indication of what is to come.

A surefire candidate for GOAT status, he has earned this run. The question after the WrestleMania 41 main event is whether anyone actually wants to watch that match play out in the main event spot on every PLE from now until December.

The answer is a resounding "no."

Wrestling fans will always let performers know when they have earned their respect and Sunday night in Las Vegas, Dominik Mysterio found out that he was finally in their good graces.

The second-generation star, a man audiences love to hate, captured his first Intercontinental Championship by pinning his fellow Judgment Day teammate Finn Bálor in a Fatal 4-Way Match also involving Penta and former champion, Bron Breakker.

That is by no means an indication that the audience is ready to cheer Mysterio but it does suggest that after years of bumping around for Judgment Day's opponents, absorbing the audiences deafening jeers every night, and being a fairly entertaining performer, fans have accepted Mysterio as more than a turncoat nepo baby.

They believe in the character, appreciate his ring work, and were overjoyed to see him rewarded for two years of excellent work, as evidenced by the overwhelmingly positive reaction to his victory. The audience was so receptive to the title change that Mysterio even returned to the squared circle for a victory lap, hoisting his title high in the air and celebrating amid the cheers.

It will be interesting to see what happens moving forward but one would assume Bálor is coming for Mysterio and that title, as will Breakker.