Bragging Rights (2009)

Bragging Rights
Promotional poster featuring various WWE wrestlers
Promotion	World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown ECW
Date	October 25, 2009
City	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Venue	Mellon Arena
Attendance	13,562[1]
Buy rate	181,000[2]
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The 2009 Bragging Rights was the inaugural Bragging Rights professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brand divisions. The event took place on October 25, 2009, at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was the final WWE pay-per-view event held there before being replaced by the new Consol Energy Center, renamed to the PPG Paints Arena, in 2010. Bragging Rights replaced WWE's previously annual event, Cyber Sunday. Six matches were featured on the card.

The concept of the event 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 brand that won the most matches out of the series—although an ECW Championship match occurred as a dark match prior to the show, the ECW brand was not directly involved in the brand competition. 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 event also contained two televised world championship matches. In the main event, John Cena defeated Randy Orton in an Anything Goes Iron Man match to win the WWE Championship. In the other world championship match, The Undertaker defeated CM Punk, Rey Mysterio, and Batista in a fatal four-way match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.