The Great American Bash (2005) was a professional wrestling PPV that 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! program. The main event was Batista defending the World Heavyweight Championship against John “Bradshaw” Layfield (JBL). One of the featured matches on the undercard was Rey Mysterio versus Eddie Guerrero while the other was Orlando Jordan versus Chris Benoit for the WWE United States Championship. The event grossed over $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. The event was also available free of charge for Armed Forces members and their families.
Rated PG-13 | Length 180 minutes
John Layfield | Dave Bautista | Oscar Gutierrez Rubio | Eddie Guerrero | Melina Perez | Torrie Wilson | Mark Calaway | Mark Copani | William Jason Reso | Booker Huffman | Francisco Rueda | Dionicio Torres | Eduardo Aníbal González Hernández | Michael Manna | Brian Daniel Heffron | Michael Bucci | John Hennigan | Adam Birch | Joseph Michael Laurinaitis | Jon Heidenreich | Dara Daivari | Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman | Candice Michelle