No Way Out (2007)  No Way Out (2007) was the ninth annual No Way Out pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for the SmackDown! brand. It took place on February 18, 2007, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California and was the final branded pay-per-view before all pay-per-view events became tri-branded until the 2016 Backlash event, when the brand split was reintroduced. The main event was an interpromotional tag team match between World Heavyweight Champion Batista and The Undertaker (from SmackDown!) and World Tag Team Champions WWE Champion John Cena and Shawn Michaels (from Raw). Cena and Michaels won the match after Cena pinned Undertaker following an FU. The main match on the undercard was an interpromotional Six-man tag team match between the team of United States Champion Chris Benoit and The Hardys (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) and the team of MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro) and Montel Vontavious Porter, which was won by the Hardys and Benoit after Benoit forced Mercury to submit to the Crippler Crossface. The event featured eight professional wrestling matches with outcomes predetermined by WWE script writers. The matches featured wrestlers portraying their characters in planned storylines that took place before, during and after the event. The main feud heading into No Way Out was between SmackDown!'s World Heavyweight Champion Batista and his partner, The Undertaker, and Raw's WWE Champion John Cena and Shawn Michaels. This feud began after Undertaker won the 2007 Royal Rumble match. The following week on an episode of "SmackDown!", the two world champions demanded an answer from Undertaker as to who he would face at WrestleMania, but Michaels interfered, as he also wanted an answer from Undertaker. As they awaited for Undertaker's answer, Vince McMahon, the WWE Chairman, made an appearance and announced an interpromotional tag team match between the two pairs of brand representatives. On the February 5, 2007 episode of "Raw", Undertaker made his decision to face World Heavyweight Champion Batista at WrestleMania 23, sending a message through a chokeslam. Michaels then became Cena's challenger at WrestleMania 23 after winning a Triple Threat match against Randy Orton and Edge. On the February 15, 2007 episode of "Raw", the brand representatives were pitted in an eight-man tag-team match against Rated-RKO (Orton and Edge), Mr. Kennedy, and Montel Vontavious Porter in which the brand representatives were victorious.