Breaking Point 2009 Breaking Point was a professional wrestling pay - per - view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , which took place on September 13 , 2009 at the Bell Centre in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . It featured talent from the Raw , SmackDown , and ECW brands . The name of the event was voted by fans via WWE ' s official website . Breaking Point was chosen over Submission Sunday , Total Submission , and Submit & Quit . Seven matches took place on the event ' s card . The show was what is known as a supercard , which featured more than one main event match . The concept of the show was that each of these main event matches would be contested under submission rules . The main events of the evening included CM Punk defeating The Undertaker in a submission match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship , John Cena defeating Randy Orton in an " I Quit " match to win the WWE Championship , and The Legacy ' s Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase defeating D - Generation X ' s Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a Submissions Count Anywhere match . Other matches featured on the show were Unified WWE Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho and The Big Show versus Montel Vontavious Porter and Mark Henry , Kofi Kingston defending the WWE United States Championship against The Miz , Kane facing The Great Khali in a Singapore Cane match and Christian versus William Regal for the ECW Championship . The event had 169 , 000 buys , down on Unforgiven 2008 figure of 211 , 000 buys . Background . Breaking Point featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre - existing feuds , plots , and storylines that were played out on " Raw " , " SmackDown " , " ECW " and " WWE Superstars " — World Wrestling Entertainment ' s ( WWE ) television programs . Wrestlers portrayed a villain or a hero as they followed a series of events that built tension , and culminated into a wrestling match or series of matches . All wrestlers were from WWE ' s Raw , SmackDown , and ECW brands — a storyline division in which WWE employees are assigned to a television program of the same name . The main event of the Raw brand was announced the night following SummerSlam ; it was a rematch from the show , which was Randy Orton defending the WWE Championship against John Cena . During the match , Orton intentionally got himself disqualified , counted - out of the ring , and pinned Cena with illegal leverage before retaining the championship . WWE Chairman , Vince McMahon , proclaimed that , as a result of Orton ' s actions in attempting to retain the title , he would grant Cena a rematch , and if anyone were to interfere on Orton ' s behalf , in response to interference during their previous match from Ted DiBiase , he would lose the championship . In the spirit of the submission concept of the show , the title was defended in an " I Quit " match , a match that can only be won by causing the opponent to say " I Quit " . After winning the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam , CM Punk defended the title on the following episode of " SmackDown " against Jeff Hardy . It was announced that the winner of the match would defend the title against The Undertaker at Breaking Point in a match that can only be won by making their opponent submit . The guest host and storyline matchmaker of the August 24 episode of " Raw " was welterweight boxing champion , Floyd Mayweather , who had a match with The Big Show at WrestleMania XXIV the previous year . Due to the lingering animosity , Mayweather announced that Montel Vontavious Porter ( MVP ) and Mark Henry would receive a match against The Big Show and his tag team partner , Chris Jericho , for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship at Breaking Point , provided they defeat them in an exhibition match that night ; MVP and Henry gained their chance after Mayweather gave MVP brass knuckles while the referee was distracted , to knock out and pin Jericho for the win . During a night - long challenge on the July 27 episode of " Raw " , to determine who would challenge Randy Orton for the WWE Championship at SummerSlam , Triple H had to defeat his opponent , Cody Rhodes , in the allotted time of 6 : 49 set by prior competitor , Mark Henry , but was not successful in doing so ; this was followed by Rhodes assaulting his incapacitated opponent with the assistance of his affiliate in The Legacy , Ted DiBiase . This led to Triple H enlisting help in the returning Shawn Michaels to reform the faction , D - Generation X ( DX ) , to face his adversaries at SummerSlam in a winning effort . After continued assaults , it was announced on WWE . com that the two teams would face at Breaking Point in a submission match of their own , which can be won anywhere in the arena . Since The Bash , Kane and The Great Khali had been in constant conflict , taking turns interfering in each other ' s matches , blindsiding each other , or , in Kane ' s case , avoiding Khali . To get Khali ' s attention and the upper hand , Kane kidnapped his adversary ' s translator and storyline brother , Ranjin Singh , before their match at SummerSlam , which was won by Kane . Khali continued after Kane following the show , leading to the announcement of a match between the two with legal use of a Singapore cane . Event . Dark match . Before WWE Breaking Point aired on television , an untelevised match took place between Evan Bourne and Chavo Guerrero . Evan Bourne would go on to win the match after performing a shooting star press , which he calls Air Bourne , to get the pinfall on Chavo . Reception . The event received generally mixed to negative reviews . The Sun in a generally positive review praised Randy Orton ' s performance in the WWE Title match and the match in general . However the newspaper harshly criticized the World Championship match , particularly the screw - job finish , stating : " But why , when putting on matches like that , the WWE feel the need to keep revisiting events from 12 years ago almost has us at Breaking Point " . Overall the event was awarded a score of 8 out of 10 . Brian Elliott , writing for SLAM ! Wrestling gave the event a generally negative review . He awarded the Tag Team Submission match a score of 7 out of 10 , his highest rating for the night , while the Kane / Khali match was awarded a highly negative score of 1 out of 10 , the event ' s lowest score . The WWE Title match was awarded a negative score of 4 . 0 / 10 and the World Championship Match awarded a 4 . 5 / 10 . The Screw - Job finish was harshly criticized . Overall the event was awarded a total score of 30 . 5 / 70 which equates to 4 . 4 / 10 .