Extreme Rules (2009)

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The 2009 Extreme Rules was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the inaugural Extreme Rules and took place on June 7, 2009, at the New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brand divisions. The theme of the event was that it featured various hardcore-based matches. The event was initially noted by WWE to be a direct continuation of the One Night Stand chronology and continued its theme of featuring hardcore-based matches; in 2010, however, WWE noted that Extreme Rules was its own chronology, separate from One Night Stand. This would be the only Extreme Rules to feature ECW and the ECW Championship as the brand was disbanded in February 2010, deactivating the championship along with it. There were eight matches scheduled on the event's card, though nine actually took place, and there was one dark match that occurred before the live broadcast. Six of the...

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