{"id":133894,"date":"2025-04-18T20:42:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T00:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=133894"},"modified":"2025-04-18T20:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T00:43:29","slug":"2025-andre-the-giant-battle-royal-winner-wwe-smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/18\/2025-andre-the-giant-battle-royal-winner-wwe-smackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Andre The Giant Battle Royal Winner Crowned on WWE SmackDown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/04\/18\/wwe-smackdown-results-4-18-25-live-updates-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">WWE SmackDown before WWE WrestleMania 41<\/a>, the WWE Universe crowned the 11th winner of the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal in Las Vegas, Nevada. Outlasting a ton of human mass in his way, Carmelo Hayes threw out his sworn enemy Andrade last to claim the giant trophy for himself the night before WWE WrestleMania 41 Saturday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal starts NOW! \ud83c\udfc6<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmackDown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SmackDown<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xEn7qde74g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/xEn7qde74g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WWE (@WWE) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1913390630425731339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To show the WWE Universe what it means to win this battle royal, four of the past 10 winners held or would hold the world championship. Out of those 10, nine would win a championship, in general, in WWE. As you all can see, winning this Battle Royal not only commemorates the legacy of the greatest big man wrestling has ever seen, Andre The Giant, but it&#8217;s also a massive stepping stone to better things in the company.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes and Andrade had a mini-classic, reminding fans of their seven-match epic in 2024. Andrade was closing in, standing on the ropes with Hayes to eliminate him. Carmelo would capitalize on this error, leapt off the ropes, and tossed out Andrade to be the last man standing.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot to live up to, including the name of Andre The Giant and the past winners of this event. That said, if anyone could live up to it, it&#8217;s definitely Carmelo Hayes.<\/p>\n<h2><em>What did you think of WINNER winning the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal on WWE SmackDown?<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><i>Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0for more on WWE Evolve and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>You can check out WWE programming on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Netflix<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(Raw),\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>USA Network<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(SmackDown),\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The CW<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(NXT),\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Tubi<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(WWE Evolve),\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetv.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>A&amp;E<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(WWE Superstar Sunday \u2013 Rivals, WWE LFG, and Greatest Moments) and\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Peacock<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0(WWE Main Event as well as archives and premium live event streaming). Follow WWE on social media to relive top moments and matches on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a><i>, and catch fast-paced action on X (<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/events\/1773457579022155776?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>WWE Speed<\/i><\/a><i>).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the WWE SmackDown before WWE WrestleMania 41, the WWE Universe crowned the 11th winner of the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal in Las Vegas, Nevada. Outlasting a ton of human mass in his way, Carmelo Hayes threw out his sworn enemy Andrade last to claim the giant trophy for himself the night before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":133895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2192,26,4,3],"tags":[4658,979,8840,7610,7740,859,396,8907,9016],"class_list":["post-133894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-smackdown","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-andrade","tag-andre-the-giant","tag-andre-the-giant-battle-royal","tag-andre-the-giant-memorial-battle-royal","tag-carmelo-hayes","tag-rey-fenix","tag-wrestlemania","tag-wrestlemania-41","tag-wwe-wrestlemania-41"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133990,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133894\/revisions\/133990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}