Judgment Day grossed over $500,000 in ticket sales from an attendance of 9,500, and received 220,000 pay-per-view buys.

This event helped WWE increase its pay-per-view revenue by $4.7 million compared to the previous year.

Judgment Day was first held by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as the 25th In Your House pay-per-view (PPV) in October 1998.

[3] The event featured seven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines.

Wrestlers portrayed either a villainous or fan favorite gimmick as they followed a series of events which generally built tension, leading to a wrestling match.

The previous month at WrestleMania 21, Cena defeated JBL to win the WWE Championship.

General Manager Theodore Long scheduled a series of number one contenders matches, after JBL, Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, The Big Show, Booker T, and Kurt Angle all demanded a WWE Championship match.

[9][10] JBL won the match, after he last eliminated Angle and having the right to face Cena at Judgment Day for the WWE Championship.

[9] On the April 28 episode of SmackDown!, Guerrero and Mysterio were given a rematch for the WWE Tag Team Championship.

[13] As a result, the following week, Long promoted a match between Guerrero and Mysterio at Judgment Day.

[14] Angle apologized, but admitted that he actually kissed Sharmell and let her fondle his "private parts" before Booker T made his way to the locker room.

[19][18][20] The second wrestling match on the pay-per-view was The Big Show versus Carlito, who was accompanied by Matt Morgan.

For the duration of the match, Big Show used his body size to his advantage as he squashed, or easily and quickly performed moves on Carlito.

Carlito won the match and gained the successful pinfall after Morgan delivered an F-5 to Big Show.

[19][18][20] The first featured match was for the WWE United States Championship, where Orlando Jordan defended the title against Heidenreich.

Heidenreich, however, would gain the advantage after countering Jordan's attack from the top rope into a suplex.

Afterwards, Jordan delivered a DDT and pinned Heidenreich to retain the United States title.

Cena came out on the flatbed of a semi truck with a DJ on a turntable mixing his theme song.

After the match, Cena struck JBL with the exhaust pipe, causing him to fall through a glass panel that was part of the entrance stage.

[23] Canadian Online Explorer's professional wrestling section rated the event a 5 out of 10 stars.

[25] On the June 6 episode of Raw, one of WWE's primary television programs, John Cena's SmackDown!

[29] During the feud, Chris Jericho was involved as well, as he protested Bischoff's actions of scheduling a WWE championship match between Cena and Christian at Vengeance.

[30][31] After defeating Christian and Tyson Tomko in a tag team match, Jericho betrayed Cena.

's final 2005 draft pick, making the World Heavyweight Championship exclusive to SmackDown!.

[34][35] The following week, it was announced Batista would meet JBL at The Great American Bash with the World Heavyweight championship on the line.

In WWE, a title cannot be won by disqualification, but only by pinfall or submission (the normal scoring conditions in professional wrestling matches).

[30][31] At the start of the year, Angle and Michaels both participated in the Royal Rumble match at the January pay-per-view event.

At WrestleMania 21, Angle got the win over Michaels by forcing him to submit to an ankle lock submission hold.

[37] On the July 28 episode of SmackDown!, Guerrero, however, revealed the secret, claiming he was Dominick's scripted biological father.