Extreme Rules 2011

Extreme Rules 2011 is a an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which will take place on May 1, 2010 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Flordia. It will be the third annual Extreme Rules event. Currently, there are five matches scheduled for the event.

Background
Edge was originally scheduled to defend his World Heavyweight Championship against Alberto Del Rio in a ladder match. However, due to Edge having to retire on the April 11 episode of Raw due to being diagnosed with cervical spinal stenosis due to previously sustained injuries, Edge vacated the World Heavyweight Championship and the match was cancelled. It was later announced the winner of a 20-man battle royal would face Alberto in the ladder match; Edge's storyline best friend (and real-life childhood friend) Christian won the right to face Del Rio for the title.

On the April 11th edition of Monday Night Raw there was a 5-man gauntlet match which would decide the number one contender to face The Miz for the WWE Championship. This match featured John Cena, Randy Orton, John Morrison, R-Truth and Dolph Ziggler. The last two men in the final round were John Cena and R-Truth. After an interference from The Miz and Alex Riley the match was resulted in a double disqualification, which would then lead to the anonymous Raw general manager stating that both John Cena and R-Truth would compete for the WWE Championship against The Miz in a Triple Threat match. On the April 18 edition of Raw, John Morrison challenged R-Truth for Truth's spot in the match and won the opportunity, but Truth turned heel and attacked Morrison after the match. Later in the night, it was revealed that the match would be contested inside a steel cage so no outside interference can get involved.

Matches
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
 * (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.


 * Randy Orton defeated CM Punk in a Last Man Standing Match
 * Kofi Kingston defeated Sheamus (c) in a Tables Match for the United States Championship
 * Jerry "The King" Lawler and Jim Ross vs. Michael Cole and Jack Swagger in a Country Whipping Match


 * The Miz (c) vs. John Cena vs. John Morrison in a Steel cage match for the WWE Championship


 * Christian vs. Alberto Del Rio in a Ladder match for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship
 * Rey Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes in Falls Count Anywhere match
 * Layla El vs. Michelle McCool in a no rules, loser leaves WWE Match

Also See

 * List of WWE pay-per-view events
 * WWE Event History
 * Extreme Rules
 * WWE One Night Stand
 * ECW

DVD release

 * Amazon.jpg Released May 31, 2011