Ranking All 20 WWE September PPVs – From Worst To Best
16. Breaking Point
The idea seemed really good on paper: capitalize on the recent success of UFC by having a gimmick Pay Per View based off submissions. The problem was in the execution of the matches, namely the main event, where CM Punk defended the World Heavyweight Championship against The Undertaker. A submission only works as a legitimate finish when one wrestler actually gives up. The writers wanted the Punk/Taker feud to continue into October, but The Undertaker has never tapped out in his Deadman persona (he tapped out to Kurt Angle as the American Badass). And of course, the Pay Per View just happened to be in Montreal, Canada. So the writing team saw this as a way to get one more Montreal Screwjob reference in before Bret Hart would return early next year. Sure enough, thats what happened. Undertaker got CM Punk in the Hells Gate submission, and Punk tapped, giving the win to Undertaker. However, Smackdown GM Teddy Long came out and said (correctly) that the Hells Gate submission was banned, so the match was restarted. Punk put on the Anaconda Vice on Taker, and the bell unexpectedly rang. A groan rang out from the Bell Centre, because they knew exactly what was up. The writing team had rehashed the Screwjob, just like they did at Unforgiven 1998, Survivor Series 1998, Survivor Series 1999 (only it was to a heel, so people liked it), and countless other Raws that took place in Canada. It may be a coincidence that the 2009 edition was the first and only edition of Breaking Point, or that the WWE has never run a Pay Per View in Canada since. Then again, it may not.
