John Cena defeated Randy Orton for the WWE championship at the promotion's Breaking Point PPV in an "I Quit" match. Much of the match featured Orton attempting to force the verbal submission of Cena by physically punishing Cena while Cena was handcuffed to the ring ropes. Cena eventually forced the submission by handcuffing himself to Orton and applying the STF. Cena's title win is the 6th WWE/World level win of his tenure in the promotion.
While the WWE title change was a highlight, the World title match that closed the show left fans in disbelief. WWE booking piled a Dusty finish on top of a Montreal screwjob. Undertaker's Hell's Gate submission win being ruled invalid by Smackdown general manager Theodore Long based on the maneuver being invalidated by Vickie Guerrero last year. The ref then called for the bell immediately after Punk applied his Anaconda Vice without 'Taker actually submitting.
CM Punk escaped with the title but not before completely defeating the submission
concept of Breaking Point in the first place. Let's hope for WWE's sake that fans have long memories of Orton/Cena and short memories of the Punk/Taker screw-job or the promotion could find the 2010 Breaking Point a very tough sell.
In other matches of note, ECW champion Christian defeated William Regal in the consensus match of the night while Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes scored a shocking upset of DX with both Legacy tag teamers forcing Shawn Michaels to submit. The U.S. and Unified tag champions both successfully defended their belts while Kane won a forgettable Singapore Cane contest.
John Cena defeats Randy Orton for WWE title in I Quit match
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WWE announces Undertaker-themed tour, no retirement
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WWE officially announced this week that it would hold an Undertaker-themed 'Rest in Peace' house show tour through Europe this November. At this point, the promotion has not announced earlier reports of plans for an Undertaker retirement tour.
In my belief, the 'Rest in Peace' tour announcement was likely what WWE had in mind to promote all along. Several fan reports out of Dublin, Ireland had claimed that the event was announced as an Undertaker retirement tour. It appears more credible though that said fans either misinterpreted Tony Chimmel's live announcement or that the announcement at the Dublin event itself was mangled.
Though I still fully expect The Undertaker to retire at some point over the next several years due to age and injury concerns, a future Euro tour doesn't seem to be the planned sendoff.
