WWE Night of Champions: 10 Best Matches In PPV’s History
Check out what we ranked as the 10 greatest WWE Night of Champions matches ever,
The Night of Champions pay-per-view may not be included in the “big four” of WWE’s pay-per-views (Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Survivor Series), but the concept of the pay-per-view is one of the best in the business.
Since the inception of the Night of Champions pay-per-view back in 2007, the format has seen a few tweaks with non-title matches included on the card, but the “every title is on the line” format makes Night of Champions one of the better pay-per-views each calendar year.
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With Night of Champions 2015 approaching a few weeks, we’ll take a look back at some of the best matches in the pay-per-view’s eight-year history.
Notes:
- The inaugural Night of Champions pay-per-view in 2007 is actually not available on the WWE Network. That was the show where John Morrison (better known as Johnny Mundo these days) filled in for Chris Benoit in the ECW Championship match against CM Punk, due to Benoit’s tragic double murder-suicide.
- Each match chosen on this list is a title match. There have only been five non-title matches in the pay-per-view’s history from 2007-2014.
- Personally, I considered making an exception to the “title match” rule for this list. The main even of the Night of Champions pay-per-view in 2011 (CM Punk vs. Triple H in a No DQ Match) was referenced in Punk’s famous podcast with Colt Cabana, where Punk spoke on his reasons for leaving WWE in January 2014.
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