SummerSlam (2009)

SummerSlam
Promotional poster featuring various WWE wrestlers
PromotionWorld Wrestling Entertainment
Brand(s)Raw
SmackDown
ECW
DateAugust 23, 2009
CityLos Angeles, California
VenueStaples Center
Attendance17,129[1]
Buy rate369,000[1]
Tagline(s)The Biggest Event of the Summer
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The 2009 SummerSlam was the 22nd annual SummerSlam 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 August 23, 2009, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California and was the first of six consecutive SummerSlam events to take place at the arena. It was the last SummerSlam to include the ECW brand.

Eight matches were contested on the event's card. The main events of the evening included CM Punk defeating Jeff Hardy in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match to win the World Heavyweight Championship for a third time, Randy Orton retaining the WWE Championship against John Cena after the match was restarted multiple times, Christian retaining the ECW Championship against William Regal, and D-Generation X's Triple H and Shawn Michaels defeating The Legacy's Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase. Also on the show, WWE Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio Jr. defeated Dolph Ziggler and Chris Jericho and The Big Show defended the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship against Cryme Tyme. The event received 369,000 buys, down from the SummerSlam 2008 figure of 477,000 buys.

  1. ^ a b Canton, John (August 18, 2022). "WWE SummerSlam 2009 Review". TJR Wrestling. Archived from the original on September 22, 2022. Retrieved June 19, 2023.