Judgment Day

Judgment Day is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by professional wrestling promotion WWE. The event was previously known under the name Night of Champions and before that Breaking Point. The event was made exclusive to the SmackDown brand in 2006 under the No Mercy banner, and in 2010 it was made exclusive to the Raw brand. Since the 2011 event it's once again been an exclusive to the SmackDown brand.

Name changes
From 2006 until 2009 the event was promoted as No Mercy. In 2009, the event dropped the No Mercy name and was promoted as Breaking Point. In 2010, it was announced that Night of Champions would replace Breaking Point and would be made a Raw exclusive. In 2011, the event once again became a SmackDown exclusive and has remained exclusive to the brand since. In 2012, it was revealed that Night of Champions would be discontinued and would be replaced by Judgment Day.

History
Judgment Day is a pay-per-view event consisting of a main event and undercard that feature championship matches and other various matches. The first event was produced as a pay-per-view event for World Wrestling Entertainment. The inaugural event took place on October 8, 2006 and aired live on PPV.

Earlier in the year, WWE held a draft that split its roster into two distinctive brands of wrestling, Raw and SmackDown, and the ECW brand was added in 2006. Before the draft, matches featured wrestlers from the roster without any limitations; after the draft, matches only consisted of wrestlers from their distinctive brands. No Mercy was made exclusive to the Smackdown! brand in 2006 and in 2010 was made exclusive to the Raw brand, re-branded as Night of Champions.