2025 WWE Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal Winner Crowned

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The winner of the 2025 Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal has been crowned on tonight’s pre-WrestleMania 41 edition of WWE SmackDown.

Tonight marked the 11th Andre Battle Royal in what was initially a WWE WrestleMania tradition and is now a pre-Mania SmackDown tradition.

The winner of the battle royal tonight was the 11th first-time winner – Carmelo Hayes.

The Battle Royal came down to a final three of Hayes, Andrade and Rey Fenix, before El Grande Americano appeared (Chad Gable had already been eliminated) and eliminated Fenix from the outside.

That left things down to Hayes and Andrade in a conclusion of their series last year that never ended with a definitive winner.

It was Hayes who came out on top this time around, and The Miz, who earlier in the Battle Royal essentially sacrificed himself to save Hayes, came out to celebrate with him.

Here’s the full list of entrants in the order they were eliminated:

Carlito

Truth

Berto

Angel

Pretty Deadly

Tyler Bate

Santos Escobar

Akira Tozawa

Creed Brothers 

Otis

Grayson Waller

Austin Theory

Chad Gable

Joaquin Wilde

Cruz Del Toro

Karrion Kross

Dragon Lee

Ludwig Kaiser

The Miz

Pete Dunne

Shinsuke Nakamura

Rey Fenix

Andrade

Carmelo Hayes (WINNER)

Hayes joins the winners list of Cesaro, Big Show, Baron Corbin, Mojo Rawley, Matt Hardy, Braun Strowman, Jey Uso, Madcap Moss, Bobby Lashley, and Bronson Reed.

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