page_title: Night of Champions (2009)
section_title: Main event matches
hierarchical_section_title: Night of Champions (2009) / Event / Main event matches
caption_attribution_description: English: World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk at WWE Raw. Allstate Arena, Rosemont IL. Taken by myself, rotated, cropped, and brightened.
context_page_description: Night of Champions (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment, which took place on July 26, 2009, at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the third annual event in the Night of Champions chronology. Similar to the previous two events, the concept of the show was that every championship in the company would be defended. It featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. Eight matches were contested on the card, all for championships. At the event, four were won and four were retained.
  This show was considered a supercard, which featured more than one main event match. The main event matches featured were: Jeff Hardy defeating CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship, Randy Orton retaining the WWE Championship against Triple H and John Cena, Mickie James winning the WWE Divas Championship against Maryse, and WWE Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio retaining his title against Dolph Ziggler.
context_section_description: The first main event of the evening was the WWE Championship match between Randy Orton, Triple H, and John Cena. The match started with Orton attempting to move away from the challengers in an attempt to let both of the fight each other; this was followed by Triple H and Cena following the champion outside of the ring. The three men took turns brawling with one another until Orton was dropped to the floor with a double suplex from his opponents. Triple H hit Orton with a spinebuster; he went to pin Cena only to have Orton grab him by the leg, and pull him out of the ring, throwing him into the commentator's table. Cena interjected himself into a fight between all three on the table, throwing Orton into the crowd. As Orton recovered and returned to the ring, he was thrown out while Cena caught Triple H in the middle of the ring with the STF in an attempt to make him submit. Orton made his way back into the ring in an attempt to punt Cena while he had Triple H in the hold; Cena quickly dodged, only to be taken down by the champion. This was followed by Orton stomping down on both of his opponents. Once both challengers recovered, Triple H took down Orton with a Sharpshooter while Cena also applied a crossface hold. Orton proceeded to tap out, only for the referee to declare the match would continue, as he couldn't decide who won the match. Orton's protégés, Rhodes and DiBiase, interfered to assault the challengers. As Cena was looking to hit Rhodes with the  Attitude Adjustment, Orton hit Cena with an RKO, leading to a pin on Cena.
  Maryse defended the WWE Divas Championship next against Mickie James. The match centered around Maryse keeping her distance from James before descending to the floor in an attempt to use a can of hair spray to unleash onto the challenger's eyes; James snatched away the can to use it herself. The referee caught James and grabbed it away from her. The match returned to the ring as Maryse went to finish the match with the French Kiss only to have James counter with her Mickie-DT to pin Maryse and win the title.
  Next was Rey Mysterio defending the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Dolph Ziggler. Ziggler gained an early advantage by muscling his opponent into the turnbuckle with a powerbomb. In attempt to ground his opponent, Ziggler locked Mysterio in a headlock and rode him into the mat. Mysterio managed to escape his opponent's onslaught by connecting with a kick to his opponent. He ascended the top turnbuckle in an attempt to dive on his opponent, who countered with a dropkick. The challenger ascended the turnbuckle himself with Mysterio on his shoulder and performed a gutbuster offnthe second rope. After an attempt to pin him, Mysterio retaliated by hitting the 619 and a body press to pin the challenger and retain the title.
  The main event of the show was CM Punk defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Jeff Hardy. Punk dominated the challenger early with a series of kicks and armlocks before Hardy escaped to the floor. Punk performed a suicide dive on Hardy, only to crash as his opponent moved away only to have Hardy go for a dive of his own and Punk reciprocate with his own dodge. The champion made his way back to the ring in the hopes of the referee declaring him the winner via countout, the act of a wrestler failing to appear in the ring for the referee's count of 10; Hardy made his way back in the ring by nine. A frustrated Punk continued his assault with knees before Hardy countered with a Whisper in the Wind followed by a pin attempt. Punk escaped the pin with a riding dragon sleepr for a submission attempt. Hardy escaped with some offense before ascending the top turnbuckle and attempting with his finishing maneuver, the Swanton Bomb, only to have the champion lift his knees up, driving them into Hardy's back. Punk exploited his advantage, and hit Hardy with the GTS. He went for the pin, only to have Hardy respond by the referee's count of two. Punk decided to leave the ring at that time in hopes of getting counted out, which would allow him to retain his championship
caption: CM Punk lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Jeff Hardy.
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