WrestleMania 22
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| Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | ||
| Date | April 2, 2006 | ||
| City | Rosemont, Illinois | ||
| Venue | Allstate Arena | ||
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WrestleMania 22 is a forthcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view event, scheduled to take place on April 2, 2006 in Rosemont, Illinois at the Allstate Arena. It will be the twenty-second annual WrestleMania pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment, and the third to take place in Chicago, Illinois (along with WrestleMania 13 and a portion of WrestleMania 2).
WWE claimed that tickets for the event sold out in less than two minutes after going on sale at 10:00 A.M. (CDT) on October 15, 2005.
The official theme song for WrestleMania 22 is "Big Time", by Peter Gabriel.
Scheduled matches
The card is expected to take shape in the episodes of WWE RAW and WWE Friday Night SmackDown! during February 2006 and March 2006. Please note that the card is subject to change.
SmackDown! matches:
Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship: Kurt Angle (c) versus Randy Orton versus Rey Mysterio
For the WWE United States Championship:Chris Benoit (c) versus John "Bradshaw" Layfield
RAW matches:
For the WWE Championship: John Cena (c) versus Triple H
"Money in the Bank" ladder match: Rob Van Dam versus Shelton Benjamin versus Ric Flair versus TBA versus TBA versus TBA
Vince McMahon versus Shawn Michaels
WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2006
One day prior to WrestleMania 22, the induction ceremony for the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2006 will be held at the Rosemont Theatre near the Allstate Arena, which will be televised on the USA Network. During WrestleMania itself, the inductees will appear on stage and be announced again. The following have been confirmed to be inducted to the WWE Hall of Fame:
- Bret "The Hitman" Hart
- Eddie Guerrero
- "Mean" Gene Okerlund (to be inducted by Hulk Hogan)
Logo
A promotional video for WrestleMania 22 which aired during WrestleMania 21 represented the "22" in the form of Roman numerals (XXII), and used the bodega sans font used in the logos of WrestleMania X-Seven to WrestleMania 21. In a WWE advertisement for WrestleMania travel packages, a second logo was shown, which was similar to the one shown in the promotional video but with a different color scheme, and using Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals.
A third logo was later released that used Arabic numerals and the same font that was used in the logos of the first fifteen WrestleMania events.