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WWE Judgment Day 2009 logo | |
Promotions | WWE |
Brands | Raw (2002–2003; 2007–2009) SmackDown (2002–2009) ECW (2007–2009) |
First event | Judgment Day: In Your House |
Last event | 2009 |
Judgment Day was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every May by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The event was created in 1998, at the time when the promotion was still called the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), with its inaugural event produced as an In Your House event in October of that year. The event was then brought back in 2000 and was rebranded as an annual PPV event for WWE. To coincide with the brand extension, the event was made exclusive to the SmackDown! brand in 2004. In 2007, following WrestleMania 23, brand-exclusive pay-per-view events were discontinued. The final event was held in 2009, with Over the Limit replacing Judgment Day in 2010.
History
Judgment Day was first held as an In Your House pay-per-view (PPV) event. In Your House was a series of monthly PPVs first produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in May 1995. They aired when the promotion was not holding one of its major PPVs and were sold at a lower cost. Judgment Day: In Your House was the 25th In Your House event and took place on October 18, 1998 at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois.
The In Your House branding was retired following February 1999's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House. As a result of the death of WWF wrestler Owen Hart at 1999's Over the Edg PPV, which was held in May, the Over the Edge PPV chronology was canceled and Judgment Day was reinstated as its own PPV the following year, being held on May 21, 2000 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. This second Judgment Day event established Judgment Day as the promotion's annual May PPV.
In May 2002, the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a result of a lawsuit from the World Wildlife Fund over the "WWF" initialism. Judgment Day 2002 was in turn the very first PPV produced by the promotion to be held under the WWE name.
In March 2002, the promotion held a draft that split its roster into two distinctive brands of wrestling, Raw and SmackDown!, where wrestlers exclusively performed—a third brand, ECW, was added in 2006. Both the 2002 and 2003 Judgment Day events featured wrestlers from both the Raw and SmackDown! brands. The 2003 event was also the final event to not be brand-exclusive until Backlash 2007. Judgment Day from 2004 to 2006 exclusively featured wrestlers from the SmackDown! brand. Following WrestleMania 23 in April 2007, WWE discontinued brand-exclusive PPVs, thus the events from 2007 to 2009 featured wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. The 2009 event was the final Judgment Day PPV held, as the event was discontinued and replaced by Over the Limit in 2010.
Dates and venues
SmackDown-branded event |
See also
References
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