| Backlash (2009) | |||
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| Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | ||
| Date | April 26, 2009 | ||
| City | Providence, Rhode Island | ||
| Venue | Dunkin' Donuts Center | ||
| Attendance | 8,500[1] | ||
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Backlash (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) promotion, which took place on April 26, 2009 at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. It featured professional wrestlers and other talent from all WWE's three brands: Raw, SmackDown and ECW. It was the eleventh event under the Backlash chronology. Seven professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card.
The main event featured wrestlers from the Raw brand in a Last Man Standing match—a match where the first person unable to respond to a ten count by the referee lost—between World Heavyweight Champion John Cena and Edge. Edge won the match and became the new World Heavyweight Champion. The other main match on the card was a Six-Man Tag Team match for the WWE Championship between Triple H (champion), Batista and Shane McMahon, and The Legacy (Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase). Legacy won the match and Orton became the new WWE Champion. Other matches also appeared on the events card. The first was an "I Quit" match between Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy and Jack Swagger versus Christian for the ECW Championship.
Armageddon helped WWE earn $35.6 million in revenue from PPV events, thanks to an attendance of approximately 8,500 and 182,000 PPV buys. The professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer website rated the entire event a 7 out of 10.