page_title: WWE Backlash
section_title: 2007
hierarchical_section_title: WWE Backlash / History / 2007
caption_attribution_description: English: Edge @ Adelaide, South Australia 'Smackdown/ECW' house show on the 14th of June '08日本語: エッジ 2008年6月14日 WWE・スマックダウン&amp;ECW合同ハウスショー オーストラリア・南オーストラリア州アデレード大会
context_page_description: WWE Backlash is an American professional wrestling pay-per-view event that is produced by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The event was created in April 1999 as an annual PPV event for WWE and was held as the post-WrestleMania PPV until 2009. To coincide with the brand extension, the event was made exclusive to the Raw brand in 2004. In 2007, all PPV events became tri-branded following that year's WrestleMania. Extreme Rules then replaced Backlash in 2010.
  After the newly reinstated WWE brand extension took effect in 2016, Backlash returned as a SmackDown-exclusive event and as a post-SummerSlam event on the same year, thus ending its previous tradition of being the post-WrestleMania PPV. The 2017 edition of the event remained SmackDown-exclusive but was moved up to May. Following WrestleMania 34 in 2018, all WWE PPVs ceased being brand exclusive. The scheduled 2019 event was canceled and replaced by Stomping Grounds, but Backlash was brought back in 2020.
context_section_description: The ninth Backlash event was held on April 29, 2007 at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. This was the first WWE event (with the exception of WrestleMania) that became tri-branded with talent from Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW. The event had an attendance of 14,500. The theme song for the event was "There and Back Again" (performed by Daughtry). Six professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the card with one dark match taking place before the event went live. The main event on the Raw brand was a Fatal Four-Way match for the WWE Championship between champion John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, and Shawn Michaels. Cena won the match and retained his championship. The main match on the Smackdown! brand was a Last Man Standing match for the World Heavyweight Championship pitting The Undertaker against Batista. The match ended in a no-contest after both wrestlers were unable to get to their feet by the count of ten.
  Other matches on the card included Bobby Lashley versus Team McMahon (Umaga, Vince McMahon, and Shane McMahon) in a Handicap match for the ECW World Championship. Vince won the title and the match for his team after pinning Lashley. The other primary match on the undercard was a singles match between Chris Benoit and Montel Vontavious Porter for the WWE United States Championship, which Benoit won to retain the championship.
caption: Edge was one of the challengers (Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels were the other two) challenging for the WWE Championship that was held by John Cena in the Fatal Four-Way match at Backlash 2007.
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