WrestleMania 29

WrestleMania XXIX (also known as WrestleMania NY/NJ) was the twenty-ninth yearly WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event made by WWE. It took place on April 7, 2013 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.^[2] The event was the fifth WrestleMania in the New York metropolitan area and the third WrestleMania held in the state of New Jersey.^[3]

WrestleMania XXIX
The WrestleMania XXVIII set
Theme song(s)	"Coming Home" by Diddy – Dirty Money feat. Skylar Grey "Bones" by Young Guns "Letters from the Sky" by Civil Twilight
Information
Promotion	WWE
Brand (s)	Raw SmackDown
Date	April 7, 2013
Attendance	74,300[a]
Venue	MetLife Stadium
City	East Rutherford, New Jersey
Pay-per-view chronology
Elimination Chamber (2013) WrestleMania XXIX Extreme Rules (2013)
WrestleMania chronology
WrestleMania XXVIII WrestleMania XXIX WrestleMania XXX

In the main event, John Cena faced The Rock in a rematch from WrestleMania XXVIII the previous year. Cena won the match and became a record 11-time WWE Champion. Also on the card, The Undertaker defeated CM Punk, Triple H defeated Brock Lesnar in a No Holds Barred match, Alberto Del Rio defeated Jack Swagger to keep his World Heavyweight Championship, this was the final time the championship was defended at WrestleMania.

There was an 8-man mixed tag team match scheduled between Tons of Funk (Brodus Clay and "Sweet T" Tensai) (with Cameron and Naomi) and Team Rhodes Scholars (Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow) (with The Bella Twins) but the match was pulled from the card on short notice because of time constraints.^[4]

Matches

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times[5]
1P	The Miz defeated Wade Barrett (c) by submission[6]	Singles match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship	4:08
2	The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins) defeated Big Show, Randy Orton and Sheamus by pinfall[7]	Six-man tag team match	10:33
3	Mark Henry defeated Ryback by pinfall[8]	Singles match	8:02
4	Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) (c) defeated Big E Langston and Dolph Ziggler (with AJ Lee) by pinfall[9]	Tag team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship	6:17
5	Fandango defeated Chris Jericho by pinfall[10]	Singles match	9:11
6	Alberto Del Rio (c) (with Ricardo Rodriguez) defeated Jack Swagger (with Zeb Colter) by submission[11]	Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship	10:30
7	The Undertaker defeated CM Punk (with Paul Heyman) by pinfall[12]	Singles match	22:08
8	Triple H (with Shawn Michaels) defeated Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) by pinfall[13]	No Holds Barred Retirement match Had Triple H lost, he would have been forced to retire from in-ring competition.	23:58
9	John Cena defeated The Rock (c) by pinfall[14]	Singles match for the WWE Championship	23:58
(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match P – This match took place on the pre-show

Footnotes

1. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. WWE said 80,676 people were at the event.^[1]