WWE Judgment Day
| Judgment Day | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Promotion(s) | WWE |
| Brand(s) |
Raw (2002–2003; 2007–2009) SmackDown (2002–2009) ECW (2007–2009) |
| First event | Judgment Day: In Your House |
| Last event | Judgment Day (2009) |
Judgment Day was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every May by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The event was created in 1998, with its inaugural event produced as an In Your House event in October of that year. The event was then replaced in 1999 by the PPV Over the Edge, which saw the death of Owen Hart. The event was then brought back in 2000 and was rebranded as an annual PPV event for WWE. To coincide with the brand extension, the event was made exclusive to the SmackDown! brand in 2004. In 2007, following WrestleMania 23, brand-exclusive pay-per-view events were discontinued. The final event was held in 2009, with Over the Limit replacing Judgment Day in 2010.
Judgment Day was a pay-per-view (PPV) event consisting of a main event and undercard that featured championship matches and other various matches. The first Judgment Day was originally produced as an In Your House event for World Wrestling Federation (WWF), the former name of WWE. The In Your House event was titled Judgment Day: In Your House. It took place on October 18, 1998 and aired live on PPV. In 1999 Judgment Day was replaced by Over the Edge, which saw the death of Owen Hart. In 2000 Judgment Day was brought back and rebranded as an annual PPV event – production of In Your House events ceased.
In 2002 a court order led to WWF changing its name to WWE. Later that year, WWE held a draft that split its roster into two distinctive brands of wrestling, Raw and SmackDown., and ECW in 2006. Before the draft, matches featured wrestlers from the roster without any limitations; after the draft, matches only consisted of wrestlers from their distinctive brands. The first Judgment Day event to be produced under the WWE banner and with roster limitations was Judgment Day (2003), which took place on May 18, 2003. The following year, WWE announced that PPV events, excluding WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and the Royal Rumble, would be made exclusive to each brand; Judgment Day was made exclusive to the Smackdown! brand. After three years of being produced as a brand exclusive event, Judgment Day (2006) was the final Judgment Day event that was brand exclusive, as WWE announced that PPV events from then on would feature all three brands of WWE.
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