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Vengeance
World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand(s)Raw
DateJune 26, 2005
CityLas Vegas, Nevada
VenueThomas & Mack Center
Attendance9,850[1]
Buy rate420,000[2]
Tagline(s)Hell in a Cell
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The 2005 Vengeance was the fifth annual

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw brand division. The event took place on June 26, 2005, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
.

The

Sweet Chin Music
.

Many of the existing feuds were settled following the event. Notably, Batista was drafted to the SmackDown! brand, thus ending his feud with Triple H. The feud between Kane and Edge also concluded after the event, as Edge entered an angle with Matt Hardy. The feud between Cena and Jericho, however, continued and led to a match at SummerSlam, which Cena won.

Production

Background

The fifth annual Vengeance took place at the Thomas & Mack Center.

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) since 2001.[3] Like the 2004 event,[4] the 2005 event was a Raw-exclusive PPV, only featuring wrestlers from that brand.[5] The 2005 event was the fifth event in the Vengeance chronology and was held on June 26 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.[6]

Storylines

Batista as World Heavyweight Champion

The event featured six

storyline division in which WWE assigned its employees to a different program, the other being SmackDown!
.

The main

Batista and Triple H, with the two battling over the World Heavyweight Championship. After Batista defeated Triple H at WrestleMania 21,[7] they continued to fight over the World title at the next Raw pay-per-view, Backlash, which saw Batista retain the title.[8] Following Backlash, a series of Gold Rush Tournament matches to determine a number one contender to face Batista for the World title took place with Kane, Shawn Michaels, Edge, and Chris Benoit winning in the first round of the tournament.[9] In this round, Benoit forced Triple H to submit to the Sharpshooter, Benoit's submission finisher.[9] On the May 23, 2005 episode of Raw, Batista faced Edge, who had beat out Michaels and Kane for an opportunity at the World title.[10][11] Batista retained the title after he pinned Edge following a Batista Bomb.[10] Following the match, Triple H attacked Batista with a sledgehammer and challenged him to a Hell in a Cell match. After making the challenge, Triple H performed a Pedigree to Batista on the World title.[10][11] Batista accepted Triple H's challenge,[12][13] which led to a contract signing for their scheduled match at Vengeance, which would be for the World Heavyweight title in a Hell in a Cell match at Vengeance.[14][15]

John Cena as WWE Champion

The other main feud heading into the event was between

Christian, with the three battling over the WWE Championship. On the June 6 episode of Raw, John Cena's SmackDown! tenure came to an end when he became the first wrestler selected by the Raw brand General Manager, Eric Bischoff, in the draft lottery.[14][15] Cena was introduced as Raw's newest member in Chris Jericho's segment, the Highlight Reel, but Christian interrupted and called Cena a poser.[14][15] This built on their existing rivalry, as Cena and Christian had an encounter at the Royal Rumble, in which Christian claimed that he was a better rapper than Cena.[16] At the time, Cena was a member of the SmackDown! brand and Christian was part of the Raw brand. Over the next months, Christian began cutting promos denouncing Cena as a 'poser'.[17] Cena rebutted Christian's comments by performing a freestyle rap about Christian, which quickly led to the two brawling in the ring.[14][15] The same evening, Cena entered a feud with Bischoff by refusing to participate in Bischoff's "war" against the upcoming Extreme Championship Wrestling reunion show.[15] On the June 13 episode of Raw, Bischoff booked a WWE title match between Christian and Cena at Vengeance, although Jericho protested the idea of Christian being the contender to face Cena for the title.[18][19] Later that night, Cena and Jericho were placed in a tag team match and faced off against Christian and Tyson Tomko. Cena and Jericho won the match after Cena got the pinfall.[18][19] After the match, Jericho turned on Cena and attacked him. Bischoff then changed the original match between Cena and Christian to a Triple Threat match at Vengeance that also included Jericho.[18][19]

One of the main matches on the undercard was between

Interpromotional match at WrestleMania 21, as Angle was part of the SmackDown! roster and Michaels belonged to the Raw roster. At WrestleMania 21, Angle got the win over Michaels by forcing him to submit to the Ankle Lock.[21] On the June 13 episode of Raw, Angle was revealed to be the second draft pick for the Raw brand.[18][19] That same evening, Michaels challenged Angle to a rematch at Vengeance, which Angle accepted.[18][19]

The Divas match set for Vengeance was between Victoria and Christy Hemme. On the May 30 edition of Raw, Christy Hemme won a bikini contest; defeating Victoria, Candice Michelle, Maria, and Lilian Garcia. After the contest ended, Victoria turned heel and attacked all of the participants, saving Hemme for last. In a backstage interview following, the evil Victoria expressed jealousy of Hemme, stating that she was tired of Hemme getting all of the attention.[22] On the June 20 episode of Raw, it was announced in a backstage interview that Hemme and Victoria would face each other at Vengeance. Hemme stated that she couldn't wait to get her hands on Victoria, but during the segment, Victoria interrupted the interview by smashing a glass jar on the back of Hemme's head.[23]

Event

Shelton Benjamin faced Carlito for the Intercontinental Championship
Other on-screen personnel
Role: Name:
English commentators Jim Ross
Jerry Lawler
Spanish commentators Carlos Cabrera
Hugo Savinovich
Interviewers
 Jonathan Coachman
Todd Grisham
Ring announcer Justin Roberts
Referees Mike Chioda
Chad Patton
Earl Hebner
Jack Doan

Sunday Night Heat matches

Before the event went live on pay-per-view,

Antonio and Romeo) in a match taped for Sunday Night Heat.[24]

Preliminary matches

The first match that aired was between

Stinger splash. Carlito pinned Benjamin with a roll-up, allowing Carlito to retain the Intercontinental Championship.[25][26]

Next was a match between Victoria and Christy Hemme. The match saw Victoria lift Hemme in the air and drop her down with force. Control of the match went back and forth, but the bout came to an end when Victoria countered Hemme's sunset flip. Victoria got the pinfall by using the ring ropes for leverage.[25][26]

The third match of the night saw

big boot to Kane. Moments later, Snitsky was quickly taken out by Edge after he accidentally hit him with his Money in the Bank briefcase. Kane performed a chokeslam and pinned Edge for the win.[25][26]

Main event matches

Shawn Michaels, who defeated Kurt Angle in a WrestleMania 21 rematch

This bout was followed by a

The Godfather. The Godfather gave Viscera advice about the life he would miss out on if he got married. This led to Viscera rejecting Garcia's marriage proposal and leaving the ring with the Godfather's hos and abandoning a crying Garcia in the ring.[25][26][27]

The fifth match was a

Christian, and Chris Jericho. The match saw all three wrestlers take the advantage over one another. A spot in the match included Jericho applying the Walls of Jericho on Cena, but he released the move and performed a springboard dropkick on Christian, after Christian got up on the ring apron. Late in the match, Jericho reversed an Unprettier attempt by Christian by tossing Christian directly to Cena. Cena performed an FU on Christian and pinned Christian to retain the WWE title.[25][26]

The main event was a Hell in a Cell match between

Batista and Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship. During the match, Triple H choked Batista with a chain and repeatedly hit him in the back with a steel chair wrapped with barbed wire. Batista regained the momentum by grabbing Triple H's sledgehammer and hitting him with it. Batista performed a spinebuster onto the steel steps on Triple H, which was followed with a Batista Bomb for the win to retain the title.[25][26] After the Hell in a Cell match, Triple H was given a standing ovation by the audience.[28]

Aftermath

Immediately after their Hell in a Cell match as an exclusive to

Evolution
, baby", referring to their past as a stable, which had disbanded until 2014.

In June 2005, the

disqualification unless otherwise stipulated. [33]

Following Vengeance, Eric Bischoff vowed to make John Cena's stint on Raw difficult. He "hand-picked" Chris Jericho to take the WWE title off Cena by booking a match between Cena and Jericho at SummerSlam.[34][35] During their feud, even though Cena was portrayed as the face and Jericho as the heel, a vocal section of live crowds nonetheless chose to boo Cena during their matches, including at SummerSlam where Cena retained the title after executing an FU.[36][37]

After a successful

superkicked Hogan, which knocked Hogan to the ground and turning Michaels heel for the first time since returning to the company in 2002.[38] The following week, Michaels challenged Hogan to a match at SummerSlam,[34][39] which Hogan accepted.[40] In this match, Hogan maintained his perfect record at SummerSlam by defeating Michaels.[41]

The feud between

Lita were walking towards the ring before a scheduled Steel cage match against Kane, Hardy attacked Edge from behind.[44][45] On the August 1 episode of Raw, Vince McMahon officially announced Hardy's return to WWE, adding that Hardy would face Edge at SummerSlam.[46][47] The following week, Hardy made his in-ring return, defeating Snitsky.[48][49] After the victory, Hardy was attacked by Edge, and was carried backstage. In retaliation, Hardy counterattacked Edge in the locker room.[48][49] At SummerSlam, Edge was given the win in the match after Hardy hit the ring post and began to bleed profusely, which caused the referee to stop the match.[50]

After a three-month hiatus,[51] Triple H returned on the WWE Homecoming episode of Raw on October 3.[52] He took part in a match, teaming up with Ric Flair, who was wrestling as a face, to take on Chris Masters and Carlito. The duo defeated Masters and Carlito; after the match, Triple H turned on Flair and hit him with a sledgehammer marked the end of Evolution after more than two years since 2003.[52] This led to an angle between Triple H and Flair. At Taboo Tuesday, Triple H and Flair met in a Steel cage match, a stipulation chosen by the fans, for the Intercontinental Championship. The match saw Flair retain the Intercontinental Championship, after escaping through the cage door.[53]

Results

No.Results
Hell in a Cell match for the World Heavyweight Championship
26:53
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
H – the match was broadcast prior to the pay-per-view on Sunday Night Heat

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