One Night Stand (2008)

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One Night Stand (2008)
Details
Promotion	World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand (s)	Raw SmackDown ECW
Date	June 1, 2008
Venue	San Diego Sports Arena
City	San Diego, California
Pay-per-view chronology
Judgment Day (2008)	One Night Stand (2008)	Night of Champions (2008)
One Night Stand chronology
One Night Stand (2007)	One Night Stand (2008)	TBD

One Night Stand (2008) was the fourth annual One Night Stand professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on June 1, 2008 at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, California and featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. The official theme song was "Hell Yeah" by Rev Theory.^[1] The event featured two taglines: "Extreme Rules" and "The One Night a Year When the WWE Goes Extreme."

The main match on the SmackDown brand was a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the World Heavyweight Championship between Edge and The Undertaker, which Edge won after retrieving the belt suspended above the ring. Per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker was forced to leave WWE.^[2] The predominant match on the Raw brand was a Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship between Triple H and Randy Orton, which Triple H won after Orton failed to answer the ten-count.^[3]

The primary match on the ECW brand was a Singapore Cane match involving The Big Show, CM Punk, John Morrison, Chavo Guerrero, and Tommy Dreamer. Big Show won the match after pinning Dreamer to become the number-one contender to the ECW Championship at Night of Champions.^[4] Featured matches on the undercard included Shawn Michaels versus Batista in a Stretcher match,^[5] and John Cena versus John "Bradshaw" Layfield in a First Blood match.^[6]

Contents 1 Report 1.1 Background 2 Results 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Report

[edit] Background

The main feud heading into One Night Stand on the Raw brand was between Randy Orton and Triple H, with the two battling over the WWE Championship. At Backlash, Triple H last pinned Orton in the Fatal Four-Way Elimination match to win the WWE title. At Judgment Day, Triple H defeated Orton in a Steel cage match to retain the WWE Championship after hitting Orton with a steel chair and delivering a Pedigree, to get the pinfall. On the May 19 episode of Raw, then General Manager William Regal booked a tag team match between the teams of Orton and John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) against John Cena and Triple H. If Orton and JBL won, they would have received re-matches against Triple H and John Cena, respectively, at One Night Stand in an extreme match of their choosing. However, if Cena and Triple H had won, then the pair would have faced each other for the WWE Championship, with Regal choosing the match type. After Orton and JBL won the tag team match, Orton announced that he and Triple H would compete in a Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship at One Night Stand. JBL announced that he and Cena would compete in a First Blood match at One Night Stand.^[7]

Another feud heading into One Night Stand, was between Shawn Michaels and Batista. The feud began after Batista expressed his remorse over the retirement of Ric Flair at WrestleMania XXIV, which was caused by Michaels getting the pinfall over Flair in Flair's career threatening match.^[8] During the rivalry, a match between Batista and Michaels took place at Backlash, with Chris Jericho as the special guest referee. At the end of the match, Michaels staged a knee injury, which helped him to defeat Batista via pinfall after he performed Sweet Chin Music on Batista.^[9] In following weeks, Batista remained skeptical about Michaels injury, then Michaels admitted faking the injury to Jericho on the May 12 edition of Raw. Batista defeated Jericho on the May 19, 2008 episode of Raw to earn the right to face Michaels at One Night Stand in a Stretcher match.^[7]

The main feud from the SmackDown brand was between Edge and The Undertaker, with the two battling over the vacant World Heavyweight Championship. At Backlash, The Undertaker defeated Edge to retain the World Heavyweight Championship, by making Edge submit to his submission chokehold, the Gogoplata. On the May 2 edition of SmackDown, General Manager Vickie Guerrero stripped The Undertaker of the title and banned his chokehold to "protect the SmackDown superstars". At Judgment Day, The Undertaker and Edge faced off against each other in a match again for the vacant World Heavyweight title. The Undertaker won the match by countout, however, Vickie Guerrero announced that as per WWE rules, championships cannot change hands, or be captured by disqualification or countout. On the May 23 episode of SmackDown, Vickie announced a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match between Edge and The Undertaker at One Night Stand for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship, with the stipulation that if The Undertaker should lose the match, he would be fired from the WWE.

The main feud heading into One Night Stand from the ECW brand was between CM Punk, Chavo Guerrero, Tommy Dreamer, John Morrison and Big Show. On the May 20 edition of ECW, General Manager Armando Estrada announced a Fatal Four-Way, Singapore Cane on a pole match, for One Night Stand featuring Punk, Guerrero, Dreamer, and Morrison, where the winner would receive an ECW Championship match against Kane at Night of Champions. Later that night, the team of Guerrero and Morrison defeated the team of Dreamer and Punk by pinfall in a tag team match. However, after the match, Big Show attacked all four superstars. Big Show then announced that he would also compete in the match One Night Stand, making it a five-man Singapore Cane match.^[10]

[edit] Results

• Jeff Hardy defeated Umaga in a Falls Count Anywhere match (9:27)^[11][12]
  • Hardy pinned Umaga after a Swanton Bomb off a parking lot semi-trailer.
• The Big Show defeated CM Punk, John Morrison, Chavo Guerrero (w/Bam Neely) and Tommy Dreamer in a Singapore Cane match (8:35)^[4][12]
  • Big Show pinned Dreamer after hitting him with a Singapore cane to earn an ECW Championship match at Night of Champions.
• John Cena defeated John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) in a First Blood match (14:30)^[6][12]
  • JBL bled from the mouth while Cena applied the STFU with a chain around his neck.
• Beth Phoenix defeated Melina in an "I Quit" match (9:14)^[13][12]
  • Melina said "I quit" while Phoenix had her in a modified chickenwing.
• Batista defeated Shawn Michaels in a Stretcher match (17:00) ^[5][12]
  • Batista won the match after placing Michaels on a stretcher and pushing it across the finish line.
• Triple H defeated Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing match to retain the WWE Championship (13:15)^[3][12]
  • Orton failed to answer the ten-count after Triple H hit him with a sledgehammer.
  • During the match, Orton legitimately broke his collarbone.^[14]
• Edge defeated The Undertaker in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match to win the vacant World Heavyweight Championship (23:50)^[2][12]
  • Edge won the match by retrieving the belt suspended above the ring.
  • Per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker was forced to leave WWE.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official One Night Stand website