WWE Judgment Day was a
professional wrestling
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pay-per-view
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(PPV) event produced by
World Wrestling Entertainment
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(WWE), a
professional wrestling promotion
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based in
Connecticut
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. It was first held as the 25th
In Your House
In Your House was a series of professional wrestling supercard events created by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The events originally aired on pay-per-view (PPV) from May 1995 to February 1999 when the promotion w ...
PPV in October 1998. The event was then brought back as its own PPV in May 2000, replacing
Over the Edge, and subsequently became the annual May PPV until 2009. The
2002 event was the company's first PPV held under the WWE name, following a renaming of the company from World Wrestling Federation (WWF) to WWE earlier that same month. Judgment Day was discontinued after its
2009 event and was replaced by
Over the Limit in 2010.
To coincide with the
brand extension
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, the event was made exclusive to the
SmackDown brand from 2004 to 2006. Following
WrestleMania 23
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in April 2007, brand-exclusive PPVs were discontinued.
History
Judgment Day was first held as an
In Your House
In Your House was a series of professional wrestling supercard events created by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The events originally aired on pay-per-view (PPV) from May 1995 to February 1999 when the promotion w ...
pay-per-view
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Events can be purchased through a multichannel television platform using their electronic program ...
(PPV) event. In Your House was a series of monthly PPVs first produced by the
World Wrestling Federation
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority-owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. A global integrated media and entertainment company, ...
(WWF, now WWE) in May 1995. They aired when the promotion was not holding one of its major PPVs and were sold at a lower cost.
Judgment Day: In Your House was the 25th In Your House event and took place on October 18, 1998, at the
Rosemont Horizon
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in
Rosemont, Illinois
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.
The In Your House branding was retired following February 1999's
St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House.
[ As a result of the death of WWF wrestler ]Owen Hart
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at 1999's Over the Edge PPV, which was held in May,[ the Over the Edge PPV chronology was canceled and Judgment Day was reinstated as its own PPV the following year, being held on May 21, 2000, at ]Freedom Hall
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in Louisville, Kentucky
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. This second Judgment Day event established Judgment Day as the promotion's annual May PPV.
In May 2002, the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a result of a lawsuit from the World Wildlife Fund
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over the "WWF" initialism. Judgment Day 2002 was in turn the very first PPV produced by the promotion to be held under the WWE name.
In March 2002, the promotion held a draft
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that split its roster into two distinctive brands
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of wrestling, Raw and SmackDown!
''WWE SmackDown'', also known as ''Friday Night SmackDown'' or simply ''SmackDown'', is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE. It airs live every Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on USA Network in the United ...
, where wrestlers were exclusively assigned to perform—a third brand, ECW, was added in 2006. Both the 2002 and 2003 Judgment Day events featured wrestlers from both the Raw and SmackDown! brands. The 2003 event was also the final event to not be brand-exclusive until Backlash 2007. Judgment Day from 2004 to 2006 exclusively featured wrestlers from the SmackDown! brand. Following WrestleMania 23
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in April 2007, WWE discontinued brand-exclusive PPVs, thus the events from 2007 to 2009 featured wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. The 2009 event was the final Judgment Day PPV held, as the event was discontinued and replaced by Over the Limit in 2010.
In 2022, WWE reused the name for a stable called The Judgment Day
The Judgment Day is a Heel (professional wrestling), villainous professional wrestling Stable (professional wrestling), stable performing in WWE on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand. The group is composed of Finn Bálor, Domini ...
.
Events
See also
* List of WWE pay-per-view events
This is a list of WWE pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming Card (sports), supercards, detailing all professional wrestling cards promoted by the American promotion available on traditional PPV outlets, and livestreaming services such as the WW ...
* WWE Over the Limit
WWE Over the Limit was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The event was created in 2010, replacing Judgment Day as the annual May PPV. The name "Over the Limit ...
* WWF Over the Edge
WWF Over the Edge was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event that was produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), a Connecticut-based professional wrestling promotion. The first event was produced as the 22nd In Your House eve ...
References
External links
Official Judgment Day website
{{WWEPPV, Judgment Day
Recurring events established in 1998
Recurring events disestablished in 2009