Vengeance (2006)

**Vengeance (2006)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on June 25, 2006 at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the sixth Vengeance event held by WWE.

Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card. The buildup to the matches and the situations that took place before, during, and after the event were planned by WWE's script writers. The event starred wrestlers from the *Raw* brand, a storyline expansion of the promotion in which employees were assigned to a wrestling brand under the WWE banner.

The main event was a 5-on-2 Handicap match, a match consisting of one team of wrestlers facing off against a team of wrestlers with more people such as three against two, or five against two, between D-Generation X (Triple H and Shawn Michaels) versus the Spirit Squad (Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky, and Mikey). Triple H and Michaels won the match after pinning Kenny and Mikey, respectively. Two other matches were on the card. In singles matches, John Cena beat Sabu in an Extreme lumberjack match, which featured wrestlers from the *Raw* and *ECW* brands at ringside. The other featured match was for the WWE Championship, in which Rob Van Dam beat Edge to keep his title.

Vengeance made over $400,000 in ticket sales from an attendance of 6,800 and received 320,000 pay-per-view buys, which helped WWE increase its pay-per-view revenue by $21.6&nbsp;million compared to the year before. When the event was released on DVD, it reached the number one position on ''Billboard's* DVD Sales Chart. 

## Background
The event had eight professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers played either villains or heroes as they followed a series of events, which led to a wrestling match or series of matches. All wrestlers belonged to the *Raw* brand, a storyline division in which WWE assigned its employees to a different program, the other two being *SmackDown!* and *ECW*. until the May 22 episode of *Raw'', where the Spirit Squad were scripted to injure Michaels' left knee. Then, by orders of McMahon, Triple H was to "break Michaels' skull", In the match, Kenny grabbed a steel chair and put it on Triple H's left knee, similar to what the group did to Michaels.

One of the featured matches was between John Cena and Sabu in an Extreme lumberjack match, a standard match with the exception that the ring is surrounded by a group of wrestlers not directly involved in it and competed under hardcore rules. On the television debut of *ECW on Sci Fi* on June 13, a brawl broke out between Rob Van Dam and Edge. Edge, who tried to leave through the *ECW* crowd, was attacked by Cena, because he caused Cena to lose the WWE Championship at ECW's One Night Stand, and Cena wanted revenge against Edge. Sabu beat up Cena and performed a leg drop on him, diving onto Cena and putting him through the *Raw* announcers' table.

The other featured match was between WWE Champion Rob Van Dam defending the title against Edge. The story for the match began on the television premiere of *ECW on Sci-Fi*, when Van Dam was awarded the ECW World Heavyweight Championship by Paul Heyman, making Van Dam a double champion by holding both the ECW and WWE Championship. Van Dam's celebration was then interrupted by Edge and his girlfriend, Lita. Edge, who was number one contender for the title, told Van Dam that they both had a lot in common, meaning that they were both Money in the Bank winners and successfully became WWE Champions. Edge ended his speech by giving Van Dam some kind words and then attacking him. On the June 19 episode of *Raw*, Van Dam attacked Edge, moments after Edge won a match against Ric Flair.

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