WWE Breaking Point
2009 World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-view event
Breaking Point was a 2009 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the American company World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on September 13, 2009, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brand divisions. The theme of the event was that each main event match was contested under submission or surrender rules.
In the main events, CM Punk retained SmackDown's World Heavyweight Championship against The Undertaker in a submission match, John Cena won Raw's WWE Championship from Randy Orton in an "I Quit" match, and in a bout from Raw, The Legacy (Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr.) defeated D-Generation X (Triple H and Shawn Michaels) in a Submissions Count Anywhere match. Also on the card, Unified WWE Tag Team Champions Jeri-Show (Chris Jericho and Big Show) defeated Montel Vontavious Porter and Mark Henry, Kofi Kingston successfully defended Raw's United States Championship against The Miz, Kane defeated The Great Khali in a Singapore Cane match, and Christian successfully defended the ECW Championship against William Regal.
Breaking Point replaced WWE's previously annual September event, Unforgiven; however, it was a one-off event, as the September slot was in turn replaced by Night of Champions in 2010, which was moved back from its previous July slot. The Breaking Point name was later used for the submission system included in the WWE '12 video game and some of its sequels. The event had 169,000 pay-per-view buys, down from the Unforgiven 2008 figure of 211,000 buys.
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Background
In May 2009, the American professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) ran a poll on their website in which fans could vote on the name for that year's September pay-per-view (PPV) event, which would replace the company's previously annual September event, Unforgiven. Breaking Point was chosen over Submission Sunday, Total Submission, and Submit & Quit, and the concept was that each main event match would be contested under submission or surrender rules.
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