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SummerSlam (2007) was the twentieth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was presented by THQ's ''Stuntman Ignition''. It took place on August 26, 2007, at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey and featured talent from each of WWE's three brands: Raw, SmackDown, and ECW.〔 Tickets for SummerSlam went on sale December 30 and sold out in forty minutes.〔 The card, or lineup of matches, featured a total of nine contests: six standard one-on-one matches, one Triple Threat match, one impromptu beer drinking contest, and one battle royal involving twelve female wrestlers.〔 Each of the standard one-on-one matches could have been won by one of four ways (pinfall, submission, countout, or disqualification). Likewise, each one-on-one match could have ended in either a draw, where both men are declared the winner, or a no contest, where neither man is declared the winner. Four of WWE's nine championships were contested; none were lost as all four were retained.〔 A championship could have been won only via pinfall or submission, but could have been retained via pinfall, submission, countout, disqualification, a draw or no contest.〔 The main feud, a staged rivalry between wrestlers, heading into the event from the Raw brand was between John Cena and Randy Orton. On the July 23 episode of ''Raw'', Jonathan Coachman announced Orton as the number one contender to the WWE Championship. Over the proceeding weeks, Orton provoked Cena by interfering and attacking him during his matches. From SmackDown, the predominant feud was between The Great Khali and Batista. After Khali defeated Batista and Kane in a Triple Threat match, a match between three wrestlers contested under standard rules, Theodore Long booked Khali to defend the World Heavyweight Championship against Batista at SummerSlam. The primary feud from ECW was between John Morrison and CM Punk. By defeating Morrison in a 15 Minutes of Fame match, Punk became the number one contender to the ECW Championship at SummerSlam. Several of the existing feuds carried on after the event. Notably, CM Punk continued to face John Morrison, defeating him for the ECW Championship the following month on ''ECW on Sci Fi''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wwe.com/shows/ecw/history/ecwchampionship/20070901punk )〕 The day after SummerSlam, Orton, as part of the scripted events, interfered in a match between Cena and King Booker and intensified the feud by attacking Cena's father. Khali and Batista faced each other at Unforgiven, the following pay-per-view, as part of a Triple Threat match; Batista was victorious in this match and won the World Heavyweight Championship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/worldheavyweight/50797501 )〕 ==Background== World Wrestling Entertainment had originally planned a storyline between the cast of the ''Jackass'' TV series and Umaga, with the conclusion in a match at SummerSlam. It was scheduled to begin at the previous pay-per-view event, The Great American Bash, but was canceled after the ''Jackass'' cast dropped out due to the negative media attention surrounding the Chris Benoit double murder and suicide.〔 The main staged rivalry heading into SummerSlam on the Raw brand was between John Cena and Randy Orton over the WWE Championship. At The Great American Bash, Cena defeated Bobby Lashley to retain the WWE Championship. The next night on ''Raw'', one of three main television programs of WWE (along with ''WWE SmackDown'' and ''ECW on Sci Fi''), after a Handicap match involving Cena, Orton came out and executed an RKO on Cena. Shortly thereafter, Executive Assistant Jonathan Coachman announced Orton as the new number-one contender to the WWE Championship.〔 Before that, Orton claimed that he had never faced Cena in a one-on-one WWE Championship match.〔 On the July 30 episode of ''Raw'', Carlito defeated Cena in a non-title match after Orton interfered and distracted Cena.〔 Three weeks later, on the August 18 episode of ''Saturday Night's Main Event'', Cena faced off against Carlito in another non-title match, which Cena won.〔 After the match, Orton came out and attacked Cena, which led to a RKO from Orton through a steel chair.〔 The main storyline on the SmackDown brand was between The Great Khali and Batista over the World Heavyweight Championship. On the July 6 episode of ''SmackDown'', Khali issued an open challenge for a match at The Great American Bash, which was accepted by Batista later that night. On ''SmackDown'' the following week, the match between Khali and Batista was made official after a contract signing. That same night, then-World Heavyweight Champion Edge, who was scheduled to face Kane for the title at The Great American Bash, suffered a real injury—a left pectoral muscle tear—after Kane interrupted his Mardi Gras style celebration. On the July 20 episode of ''SmackDown'', Edge was forced to vacate the World Heavyweight Championship due to the severity of his injury.〔 He later commented- SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long then announced that there would be a 20-man Battle Royal later that night to determine a new World Heavyweight Champion.〔 As part of the scripted events, Khali won the Battle Royal and became the new World Heavyweight Champion by last eliminating Kane and Batista.〔〔 Khali defeated the two, as part of the storyline, and retained the title at The Great American Bash.〔 Five days later, on ''SmackDown'', Batista, as part of the scripted events, interrupted Khali's celebration and challenged him to a match at SummerSlam. The next week, on the August 3 episode of ''SmackDown'', Long announced that Khali would defend his title against Batista at SummerSlam.〔 The predominant staged rivalry from the ECW brand was between John Morrison and CM Punk over the ECW Championship. Morrison, as part of the storyline, won the title at Vengeance: Night of Champions, the pay-per-view two months before SummerSlam, by defeating CM Punk. At the following pay-per-view, The Great American Bash, Morrison defeated Punk, as part of the scripted events, to retain the ECW Championship. On the July 31 episode of ''ECW on Sci Fi'', Punk defeated Tommy Dreamer and Elijah Burke, as part of the scripted events, in a match between the three to earn a 15 Minutes of Fame match with Morrison. The following week, on ''ECW on Sci Fi'', Punk defeated Morrison, as part of the storyline, by pinfall after executing a GTS (Go To Sleep).〔 As a result of this victory, Punk earned himself a championship match against Morrison at SummerSlam.〔〔 One of the primary preliminary matches was a standard one-on-one match between Rey Mysterio and Chavo Guerrero. Their storyline first began in July 2006 at The Great American Bash. Guerrero, as part of the scripted events, interfered in Mysterio's World Heavyweight Championship match with King Booker (Booker Huffman) by hitting Mysterio with a steel chair. As part of the storyline, Guerrero defeated Mysterio the following month at SummerSlam, winning the match after performing a frog splash At No Mercy, the pay-per-view two months after SummerSlam 2006, Mysterio, as part of the scripted events, defeated Guerrero in a match where pinfalls could occur anywhere, pinning him after performing a crossbody off a guard rail. Two weeks later, Guerrero defeated Mysterio in an "I Quit" match as part of the storyline, forcing him to quit after hitting his left knee repeatedly with a steel chair. During the match, Mysterio suffered a real injury—an ACL and patella tendon tear in his left knee.〔〔 Ten months later, on the August 3 episode of ''SmackDown!'', a match between Mysterio and Guerrero was booked for SummerSlam. 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「SummerSlam (2007)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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