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Night of Champions (2013)

The 2013 Night of Champions was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It was the seventh annual Night of Champions and took place on September 15, 2013, at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. This was WWE's last pay-per-view event to take place at the Joe Louis Arena before its closure in 2017 with future WWE events in Detroit held at the Little Caesars Arena. The theme of the event was that every championship promoted on WWE's main roster at the time was defended. The event received 175,000 buys, down from the last year's event of 189,000.

Nine matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, Daniel Bryan defeated Randy Orton to win the WWE Championship. In other prominent matches, Rob Van Dam defeated World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio via disqualification thus Del Rio retained, and Curtis Axel and Paul Heyman defeated CM Punk in a No Disqualification Handicap Elimination match.

Night of Champions was an annual pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE since 2007. The 2013 event was the seventh Night of Champions and was held on September 15, 2013, at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. As per the theme of the event, every championship promoted on WWE's main roster at the time was defended. These included the WWE Championship, the World Heavyweight Championship, the Intercontinental Championship, the United States Championship, the WWE Tag Team Championship, and the WWE Divas Championship.

The card consisted of nine matches, including one on the Kickoff pre-show, that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Raw and SmackDown.

Following his win over John Cena at SummerSlam, Daniel Bryan lost the WWE Championship when special guest referee and chief operating officer Triple H attacked Bryan, allowing Randy Orton to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase to win the championship. Triple H and the McMahons stated that it was "best for business" because Bryan did not "fit the mold" to be WWE Champion. Naming Orton the new "face of WWE", they also formed an alliance with The Shield. Leading up to Night of Champions, Bryan was forced to compete in several challenging matches, including a Steel Cage match against Wade Barrett, a gauntlet match against all three members of The Shield, and a match with Big Show. After defeating Dean Ambrose on the September 9 episode of Raw, Bryan was again assaulted by The Shield and Orton.

On the August 26 episode of Raw, AJ Lee interrupted the celebration over Brie Bella's victory in a SummerSlam rematch against Natalya, berating the cast of Total Divas, calling them "interchangeable" and "expendable" and stating that they were not good enough to be wrestlers, so they went into reality TV. On the September 2 episode of Raw, AJ Lee interfered in a triple threat match between Natalya, Naomi, and Brie Bella, which was to determine the number one contender for her Divas Championship. As a result, Stephanie McMahon scheduled AJ to defend her Divas Championship in a fatal four-way match against Natalya, Naomi, and Brie Bella at Night of Champions.

On the August 5 episode of Raw, Rob Van Dam defeated World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio in a non-title match after Ricardo Rodriguez's interference backfired. After the match, Del Rio attacked Rodriguez for his actions. Two weeks later, Rodriguez returned to inform Del Rio that he was now representing Van Dam. Van Dam continued to attack Del Rio, both on Raw and SmackDown, and on the August 26 episode of Raw, Van Dam won another non-title match over Del Rio due to a distraction by Rodriguez, earning Van Dam a World Heavyweight Championship match against Del Rio at Night of Champions. On the September 6 episode of SmackDown, Del Rio cost Van Dam a non-title match against Randy Orton, and attacked him after the match. The following week, Vickie Guerrero forced Rodriguez to face Del Rio. After winning the match, Del Rio put Rodriguez in the cross armbreaker until Van Dam made the save.

After being defeated by Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam, CM Punk continued his feud with Paul Heyman, thus starting another one with Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel by attacking him the next night on Raw. Four days later on SmackDown, Axel challenged Punk to a match, which Punk accepted. On the August 26 episode of Raw, Punk defeated Axel and by vote of the WWE Universe, Heyman was forced to face Punk in the ring, but Axel interfered and helped Heyman attack Punk. Brad Maddox granted Punk's wish of facing Heyman by giving him a No Disqualification Handicap Elimination match at Night of Champions against Axel and Heyman.

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