New Year's Revolution (2006)
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| Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | ||
| Brand | Raw | ||
| Date | January 8, 2006 | ||
| City | Albany, New York | ||
| Venue | Pepsi Arena | ||
| Attendance | 11,000 | ||
| Buy rate | 345,000 | ||
| Tagline | The Elimination Chamber; 10 Tons of Steel. 2 Miles of Chain. One Man Left Standing. | ||
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The 2006 New Year's Revolution was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the second annual New Year's Revolution and took place on January 8, 2006, at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, New York, held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw brand division.
The main event was an Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship involving champion John Cena, Kurt Angle, Shawn Michaels, Kane, Carlito, and Chris Masters. Cena won the match and retained the title after last eliminating Carlito. After the match, Edge cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and defeated Cena to win the WWE Championship, which was the first-ever Money in the Bank cash-in match. One of the predominant matches on the card was Triple H versus Big Show, which Triple H won by pinfall after executing a Pedigree. Another primary match on the undercard was Ric Flair versus Edge for the WWE Intercontinental Championship, which Flair won after Edge got himself intentionally disqualified.