Judgment Day (2008) was a PPV sponsored by Lionsgate's Rambo, which took place on May 18, 2008 at the Qwest Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska. It was the tenth annual Judgment Day event and starred wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. The RAW main event was a Steel Cage match featuring WWE Champion Triple H defending against Randy Ortonfor the title. In SmackDown's main match, Edge challenged The Undertaker for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship. In ECW's prime match, WWE Tag Team Champions John Morrison and The Miz defended against Kane and CM Punk. Other matches included Shawn Michaels versus Chris Jericho and John "Bradshaw" Layfield versus John Cena. Judgment Day received 252,000 pay-per-view buys.
Practical Effects
Steel cage physics: real bodies, real steel, zero CGI nonsense.
Acting
Shawn Michaels' selling makes a punch look like actual murder.
Direction
Kevin Dunn's frantic cuts somehow enhance the chaos.
Director
Kevin Dunn
Paul Levesque
Triple H
Randy Orton
Randy Orton
Mark Calaway
The Undertaker
Adam Copeland
Edge
Michael Hickenbottom
Shawn Michaels
Chris Irvine
Chris Jericho
John Cena
John Cena
John Layfield
JBL
Jeff Hardy
Jeff Hardy
Hassan Hamin Assad
MVP
John Hennigan
John Morrison
Mike Mizanin
The Miz
Phil Brooks
CM Punk
Glenn Jacobs
Kane
Mickie James
Mickie James
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This event sits at WWE's PG transition—blood still flows, but gentler times are coming. The Rambo sponsorship is peak 2008 testosterone marketing.
Edge's World Heavyweight Championship win here began his record 11-time world title run, cementing the 'Ultimate Opportunist' gimmick forever.
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