Bragging Rights 2009 Bragging Rights was a professional wrestling pay - per - view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , which took place on October 25 , 2009 at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . It featured talent from the Raw and Smackdown brands . Five matches were featured on the card . The concept of the show was based around a series of interpromotional matches for " bragging rights " between wrestlers from the Raw and Smackdown brands , with a Bragging Rights trophy awarded to the show that won the most matches out of the series . The matches included Raw ' s United States Champion The Miz defeating SmackDown ' s Intercontinental Champion John Morrison , SmackDown ' s team of Michelle McCool , Beth Phoenix and Natalya defeating Raw ' s team of Melina , Kelly Kelly and Gail Kim , and SmackDown ' s team of Chris Jericho , Kane , R - Truth , Matt Hardy , Finlay , Tyson Kidd and David Hart Smith defeating Raw ' s team of Triple H , Shawn Michaels , The Big Show , Cody Rhodes , Jack Swagger , Kofi Kingston and Mark Henry . The SmackDown brand won the Bragging Rights trophy with two wins to one . The show also contained two world championship matches including the main event where John Cena defeated Randy Orton in an Anything Goes Iron Man match to win the WWE Championship , and The Undertaker defeating CM Punk , Rey Mysterio and Batista in a Fatal Four - Way match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship . The Bragging Rights pay - per - view drew approximately less than 200 , 000 buys , and is up from the 153 , 000 buys Cyber Sunday 2008 got . A second Bragging Rights event is scheduled to take place on October 24 , 2010 at the Target Center in Minneapolis , Minnesota . Background . The concept of the show featured a 7 - on - 7 tag team match pitting contingents from " Raw " and " SmackDown " against one another . On the October 12 edition of " Raw " , it was announced one - half of Unified WWE Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho would act as the co captain of SmackDown ' s team with Kane as the other co - captain , and Shawn Michaels and Triple H ( collectively known as D - Generation X ) would act as the co - captains of Raw ' s team . Later in the program , the other half of the Tag Team Champions The Big Show would qualify for the latter team by defeating Chris Jericho in a match that would qualify him to be on the team . Continuing the trend of qualifying matches on said edition of " Raw " , Cody Rhodes defeated Ted DiBiase and John Cena in a Triple Threat match , Jack Swagger defeated Montel Vontavious Porter , and Kofi Kingston defeated Evan Bourne . Mark Henry became the final member of Team Raw by defeating Chris Masters on the October 15 episode of " WWE Superstars " . The following night on " SmackDown " , Kane revealed that in fact the SmackDown team will be co - captained both by Jericho and himself . Qualifying matches for the SmackDown team commenced on the same night , with Dolph Ziggler defeating Mike Knox and Finlay in a Triple Threat match , Shad Gaspard and JTG ( collectively known as Cryme Tyme ) defeating David Hart Smith and Tyson Kidd ( collectively known as The Hart Dynasty ) , Eric Escobar defeating Matt Hardy , and Drew McIntyre defeating R - Truth . On the October 23 episode of " SmackDown " , Jericho and Kane booked a 4 - on - 5 handicap match pitting Ziggler , JTG , Escobar and McIntyre against Finlay , the Hart Dynasty , Hardy and R - Truth , where the winning team would join the two at Bragging Rights . The latter team won the match , thus replacing the former team , along with Gaspard . The main rivalry from the Raw brand heading into Bragging Rights was the continuing conflict between Randy Orton and John Cena over the WWE Championship . The two had faced at the three previous pay - per - view events , with Orton retaining the title at SummerSlam , Cena winning the title at Breaking Point in an " I Quit " match , and Orton reclaiming the title at Hell in a Cell in the event ' s eponymous match . The following night on " Raw " , Cena challenged Orton to one last rematch for the title , this time a 60 - minute Iron Man match where the competitor with the most decisions at the end of that time would be named the victor . In order to accept the challenge , Orton added two more conditions to the match , that Cena would leave the Raw brand if he loses and that the match would be " anything goes " . The Undertaker made his return to the company at SummerSlam after CM Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship . Punk would then defeat his challenger at Breaking Point under controversial circumstances before to losing the title to The Undertaker at Hell in a Cell a month later . On the October 9 edition of " SmackDown " , WWE Chairman Vince McMahon announced Punk would receive his rematch at Bragging Rights , but it would be in a Fatal Four - Way match with Batista and Rey Mysterio . On the October 12 edition of " Raw " , the reigning WWE United States Champion , The Miz , announced that he will face the WWE Intercontinental Champion John Morrison at Bragging Rights . In 2007 , the two formed a tag team and gained success in the tag team division , winning the WWE Tag Team and World Tag Team Championships as well as the 2008 Slammy Award for Tag Team of the Year . In an untelevised match at WrestleMania XXV , the team lost their unification match against The Colóns ( Carlito and Primo ) that would form the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship . A week later , The Miz found himself drafted to the Raw brand in the 2009 WWE Draft due to botched interference from Morrison . Miz subsequently attacked Morrison after the match , ending the partnership . Morrison was later himself drafted to the SmackDown brand . Both wrestlers found singles success with Morrison winning his third Intercontinental Championship from Rey Mysterio in September , while The Miz defeated Kofi Kingston to become the new United States Champion on the October 5 edition of " Raw " . Reception . The event was generally well received by critics , with positive comments on the opening bout between Morrison and The Miz , and mostly on the Iron Man match main event . " The Sun " , in a positive review , praised the Iron Man Match and the Fatal 4 Way Match , but criticized the tag team Bragging Rights equalizer as confusing , and causing many of the competitors to become lost in the action . They awarded the event a positive 7 out of 10 .