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Extreme Rules featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds, plots, and storylines which were played out on WWE's primary television programs. Wrestlers will portray villains or heroes as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Due ...
Pre-show
Before the event aired, a dark match took place. In this non-televised match, Sin Cara defeated Tyson Kidd after a moonsault side slam.
Preliminary matches
The first televised match of the night saw CM Punk taking on Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing Match. While Punk made his way to the ring with the members of The New Nexus, the anonymous Raw general manager declared that the members of The New Nexus were banned from ringside. The first big spot of the match happened when Orton delivered a snap scoop powerslam on the outside of the ring. About ten minutes into the match, Punk executed GTS, on Orton who barely managed to beat the count. The fi...
Main event matches
The following match was a no disqualification, no countout, Loser Leaves WWE match featuring Layla and Michelle McCool. The match started with McCool attacking Layla during her entrance routine. McCool was then able to hit the Faithbreaker, but her pin was reversed by Layla into a crucifix for the win. After the match, the debuting Kharma attacked McCool, hitting her with a lifting double underhook facebuster. The next match was for the vacant World Heayweight Championship featuring Christian...
Extreme Rules 2011 received generally positive reviews. In his review for The Sun, Rob McNichol reported that the event was "a stunning return to form by WWE." CM Punk and Randy Orton's opening Last Man Standing Match was deemed a very strong opening bout which swung each way several times. CM Punk was not shamed in defeat, being made to look Orton...
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.Following the conclusion of Extreme Rules, news was breaking worldwide that Osama bin Laden, the leader and co-founder of the Islamist terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, had been killed by the US Navy's SEAL Team Six in Abbottabad, Pakistan. New WWE Champion John Cena addressed the live audience with a speech about American pride, then declared "The Presid...
Battling in a ring surrounded by WWE Superstars, WWE Tag Team Champions Big Show & Kane took advantage of the lack of teamwork between Corre members Wade Barrett & Ezekiel Jackson to beat the aggressive renegades and retain the titles. Extreme Rules, the one night when all of WWE goes extreme, comes to the WWE Universe live on Sunday, May 1, 2011.
May 1, 2011 · WWE Extreme Rules 2011. WWE Extreme Rules 2011. Randy Orton defeated C.M. Punk: C.M. Punk brought the New Nexus out to the ring but the Anonymous RAW General Manager chimed in with an emailing ordering them to return to the locker room. Orton whacked Punk repeatedly with a kendo stick and then hit him with an RKO.
WWE Extreme Rules 2011. The Superstars of Raw and SmackDown square off in punishing and brutal matches on the one night of the year when WWE goes extreme. The Miz defends the WWE Championship against John Cena and John Morrison in a Triple Threat Match. The vacant World Heavyweight Championship is decided in a Ladder Match between Alberto Del ...
