One Night Stand (2008)

Big Show won the match after pinning Dreamer to become the number-one contender to the ECW Championship at Night of Champions.

One Night Stand was an annual pay-per-view (PPV), produced every June by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) since 2005.

The event was originally produced as a reunion show for wrestlers from the former Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion and featured hardcore-based matches, before WWE established a third brand dubbed ECW in 2006.

[1] The main feud heading into One Night Stand on the Raw brand was between Triple H and Randy Orton over the WWE Championship.

At Judgment Day, Triple H defended the WWE Championship against Orton in a Steel cage match.

On the May 19 episode of Raw, General Manager William Regal booked a tag team match between Orton and JBL against Cena and Triple H. If Orton and JBL won, they would have received re-matches against Triple H and Cena, respectively, at One Night Stand in an extreme match of their choosing.

If Cena and Triple H had won, however, then the pair would have faced each other for the WWE Championship, with Regal choosing the match type.

[4] During the rivalry, a match between Batista and Michaels took place at Backlash, with Chris Jericho as the special guest referee.

Batista defeated Jericho on the May 19, 2008 episode of Raw to earn the right to face Michaels at One Night Stand in a Stretcher match.

The main feud heading into One Night Stand on the ECW brand was between CM Punk, Chavo Guerrero, Tommy Dreamer, John Morrison and The Big Show.

Both Phoenix and Melina competed in a triple-threat match for the Women's Championship at Judgment Day that was won by James.

After Big Show incapacitated the other wrestlers, including Neely and The Miz, he hit Dreamer with a kendo stick and pinned him, thus earning an ECW Championship match at Night of Champions.

The match ended Cena executed his STF submission hold on JBL while using a steel chain to draw blood.

The main event was The Undertaker versus Edge in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship.

Edge then climbed the ladder and retrieved the championship, winning the match and forcing The Undertaker to leave WWE, as per the pre-match stipulation.

After failing to win the WWE Championship, Vickie Guerrero revealed that she had rehired The Undertaker on SmackDown and booked a Hell in a Cell match at SummerSlam.

At Night of Champions, Mark Henry defeated Big Show and Kane in a Triple Threat Match for the ECW Championship.

After Randy Orton broke his collar bone, Triple H defended his WWE Championship at Night of Champions by defeating John Cena.

One month later, at Armageddon, Edge defended the championship in a Triple Threat match, which was won by Jeff Hardy.

Stage setup for One Night Stand.