Hell in a Cell (2009)

The 2009 Hell in a Cell was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the inaugural Hell in a Cell event and took place on October 4, 2009, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brand divisions. The event centered on the men's Hell in a Cell match, a 20-foot-high roofed steel cage that surrounds the ring and ringside area with no countouts or disqualifications and the only way to win is by pinfall or submission in the ring. There were eight matches scheduled on the event's card, as well as one dark match that occurred before the live broadcast. The event featured what was known as a supercard, which featured more than one main event match. The three main event matches were contested as Hell in a Cell matches. These included D-Generation X (Triple H and Shawn Michaels) defeating The Legacy (Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase), which was the final match on the card, Randy Orton defeating John Cena to win Raw's WWE Championship, and The Undertaker defeating CM Punk to win SmackDown's World Heavyweight Championship. Other matches featured on the event were John Morrison defending SmackDown's Intercontinental Championship against Dolph Ziggler, Mickie James versus Alicia Fox for Raw's Divas Championship, Unified WWE Tag Team Champions Jeri-Show (Chris Jericho and Big Show) versus Batista and Rey Mysterio, Drew McIntyre facing R-Truth, and a triple threat match for Raw's United States Championship among Kofi Kingston, The Miz, and Jack Swagger. The Hell in a Cell event replaced No Mercy as the annual October PPV. This would be the only Hell in a Cell event to feature the ECW brand in any capacity, as it was disbanded in February 2010. It was also...