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Bragging Rights (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and presented by THQ's ''WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010'' that took place on October 25, 2009 at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WWE Bragging Rights )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Events )〕 It was the final pay-per-view to take place at the Mellon Arena, as it closed on 2010 and was completely demolished on March 2012. It was the first of two Bragging Rights events (the other being Bragging Rights (2010) and featured talent from the ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown'' brands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WWE Pay-Per-Views To Follow WrestleMania Formula )〕 Five matches were featured on the card. The concept of the show was based around a series of interpromotional matches for "bragging rights" between wrestlers from the ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown'' brands, with a Bragging Rights trophy awarded to the show that won the most matches out of the series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Presenting WWE Bragging Rights )〕 The matches included ''Raw's'' United States Champion The Miz defeating ''SmackDown's'' Intercontinental Champion John Morrison, SmackDown's team of Michelle McCool, Beth Phoenix and Natalya defeating ''Raw's'' team of Melina, Kelly Kelly and Gail Kim and ''SmackDown's'' team of Chris Jericho, Kane, R-Truth, Matt Hardy, Finlay, Tyson Kidd and David Hart Smith defeating ''Raw's'' team of Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Big Show, Cody Rhodes, Jack Swagger, Kofi Kingston and Mark Henry. The ''SmackDown'' brand won the Bragging Rights trophy with two wins to ''Raw's'' one. The show also contained three world championship matches including the main event where John Cena defeated Randy Orton in an Anything Goes Iron Man match to win the WWE Championship, The Undertaker defeating CM Punk, Rey Mysterio and Batista in a Fatal Four-Way match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship and a dark match in which Christian defeated Paul Burchill to retain the ECW Championship . ==Background== The concept of the show featured a seven-on-seven tag team match pitting contingents from ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown'' against one another. On the October 12, 2009 edition of ''Raw,'' it was announced one-half of Unified WWE Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho would act as the co-captain of ''SmackDown's'' team with Kane as the other co-captain and Shawn Michaels and Triple H (collectively known as D-Generation X) would act as the co-captains of ''Raw's'' team. Later in the program, the other half of the Tag Team Champions The Big Show would qualify for the latter team by defeating Chris Jericho in a match that would qualify him to be on the team. Continuing the trend of qualifying matches on ''Raw,'' Cody Rhodes defeated Ted DiBiase and John Cena in a Triple Threat match, Jack Swagger defeated Montel Vontavious Porter and Kofi Kingston defeated Evan Bourne. Mark Henry became the final member of Team Raw by defeating Chris Masters on the October 15 episode of ''WWE Superstars''. On the October 16, 2009 edition of ''SmackDown'' (taped October 13), Kane revealed that in fact the ''SmackDown'' team will be co-captained both by Jericho and himself. Qualifying matches for the ''SmackDown'' team commenced on the same night, with Dolph Ziggler defeating Mike Knox and Finlay in a Triple Threat match, Shad Gaspard and JTG (collectively known as Cryme Tyme) defeating David Hart Smith and Tyson Kidd (collectively known as The Hart Dynasty), Eric Escobar defeating Matt Hardy and Drew McIntyre defeating R-Truth. On the October 23, 2009 edition of ''SmackDown'' (taped October 20), Jericho and Kane booked a 4-on-5 handicap match pitting Ziggler, JTG, Escobar and McIntyre against Finlay, the Hart Dynasty, Hardy and R-Truth, where the winning team would join the two at Bragging Rights. The latter team won the match, thus replacing the former team, along with Gaspard. The main rivalry from the ''Raw'' brand heading into Bragging Rights was the continuing conflict between Randy Orton and John Cena over the WWE Championship. The two had faced at the three previous pay-per-view events, with Orton retaining the title at SummerSlam, Cena winning the title at Breaking Point in an "I Quit" match and Orton reclaiming the title at Hell in a Cell in the event's eponymous match. On the October 5, 2009 edition of ''Raw,'' Cena challenged Orton to one last rematch for the title, this time a 60-minute Iron Man match where the competitor with the most decisions at the end of that time would be named the victor. In order to accept the challenge, Orton added two more conditions to the match-- if Cena loses, he would leave ''Raw'' and that the match would be "anything goes". The Undertaker made his return at SummerSlam after CM Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship. Punk would then defeat his challenger at Breaking Point under controversial circumstances before to losing the title to The Undertaker at Hell in a Cell a month later. On the October 9, 2009 edition of ''SmackDown'' (taped October 6), WWE Chairman Vince McMahon announced Punk would receive his rematch at Bragging Rights, but it would be in a Fatal Four-Way match with Batista and Rey Mysterio. On the October 12, 2009 edition of ''Raw,'' the reigning WWE United States Champion, The Miz, announced that he will face the WWE Intercontinental Champion John Morrison at Bragging Rights.〔 In 2007, the two formed a tag team and gained success in the tag team division, winning the WWE Tag Team and World Tag Team Championships as well as the 2008 Slammy Award for Tag Team of the Year. In an untelevised match at WrestleMania XXV, the team lost their unification match against The Colóns (Carlito and Primo) that would form the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship. A week later, The Miz found himself drafted to the ''Raw'' brand in the 2009 WWE Draft due to botched interference from Morrison, after which Miz attacked Morrison, permanently ending the partnership. Morrison was later himself drafted to the ''SmackDown'' brand. However, both wrestlers found singles success with Morrison winning his third Intercontinental Championship from Rey Mysterio in September, while The Miz defeated Kofi Kingston to become the new United States Champion on the October 5, 2009 edition of ''Raw.''〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bragging Rights (2009)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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