No Way Out 2009 No Way Out 2009 was a professional wrestling pay - per - view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and was presented by AT & T . It took place on February 15 , 2009 , at the KeyArena in Seattle , Washington . It was the eleventh event under the No Way Out name and featured talent from the Raw , SmackDown and ECW brands . Five matches were held on the event ' s card . The main events for the Raw and Smackdown brands were their at - the - time annual Elimination Chamber matches for their respective world championships . The WWE Championship was contested for in the Smackdown main event with champion Edge defending against Jeff Hardy , Triple H , The Undertaker , The Big Show , and Vladimir Kozlov . Triple H emerged victorious by eliminating Undertaker last . Later in the evening , the World Heavyweight Championship was on the line in the Raw main event . The match was to originally feature champion John Cena defend against Kane , Rey Mysterio , Mike Knox , Chris Jericho , and Kofi Kingston . However , as Kingston was making his way to the structure he was attacked by Edge and taken out of the match . Edge then assumed Kingston ' s place in the match and won by eliminating Mysterio last , resulting in both of WWE ' s world championships belonging to members of the Smackdown brand . The ECW brand ' s lone match saw Jack Swagger defend his ECW Championship successfully against Finlay . The remaining matches on the card were all from the Raw brand and saw Melina successfully defend the WWE Women ' s Championship against Beth Phoenix , Randy Orton defeat Shane McMahon in a No Holds Barred match signed after Shane got revenge against Orton for an attack on his father Vince McMahon , and Shawn Michaels defeat John " Bradshaw " Layfield in a match where Michaels would gain financial freedom from JBL if he won but become a permanent employee of JBL if he lost . Aftermath . Orton continued his feud with the McMahon family , after No Way Out . On the very next night on " Raw " , Orton faced Shane McMahon in an unsanctioned match , before both Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase had to interfered in the match , after the interference , Orton then punted Shane in the head . When Raw GM Stephanie McMahon came out to check on her brother ' s condition and confront Orton , he hit her with an RKO , that brought out the furious Triple H to the ring to check on his wife and led to him seeking revenge on Orton any way that he could . On March 2 , 2009 ' s episode of " Raw " , where Orton ( who is the winner of this year ' s Royal Rumble ) was goaded by Triple H into choosing to face him in the main event of WrestleMania XXV for the WWE Championship . Also on the same night , after No Way Out , Edge revealed that he entered the second Elimination Chamber match with the approval of his ( kayfabe ) wife , Vickie Guerrero ( who happens to be the GM of Smackdown at the time ) . Dethroned champion John Cena then invoked his rematch clause , but Edge chose not to defend the title on that night and returned to Smackdown with it . Cena and Edge were eventually signed to face off in a Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania with Big Show ( who is Edge ' s ally ) , as their third opponent . With their feud now over , Shawn Michaels and JBL went in different directions . JBL went on to feud with CM Punk over the WWE Intercontinental Championship , which he won on March 9 , 2009 to become the ninth Grand Slam winner in company history . Michaels , meanwhile , began feuding with The Undertaker in an effort to set up a match between the two of them for WrestleMania , which eventually took place . Reception . No Way Out was generally well received by critics . " The Sun " in their review noted that the unpredictability , shocks and top - notch wrestling overshadowed the few minor missteps of the evening , such as Vladimir Kozlov ' s stiff wrestling and the relative unimportance of the Orton / McMahon and Swagger / Finlay matches , criticizing the quality of both . Overall however , they awarded the event 8 out of 10 , heaping praise on the use of Edge and his character . The event had 272 , 000 buys , down on the No Way Out 2008 figure of 329 , 000 buys .