IWE Battleground (2016)

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Battleground (2016) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and IWE Network event produced by IWE. It will take place on July 24, 2016 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.. It will be the fourth event under the Battleground chronology, and the first event since the new IWE brand extension.

Background

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Money in the Bank will consist of professional wrestling matches that involved wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines that play out on IWE's primary television programs, Raw and SmackDown. Wrestlers will portray heroes or villains as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.

At Money in the Bank, Dean Ambrose won the IWE World Heavyweight Championship after winning the Money in the Bank ladder match and cashing in on Seth Rollins after Rollins defeated Roman Reigns to win the title. The following night on Raw, Reigns and Rollins competed in a #1 contender match for the title, which ended in a double count-out. After the match, Shane McMahon, on Ambrose's request, made a Triple Threat match between all three former Shield members at Battleground. On June 21, two days after Money in the Bank, Reigns was suspended for 30 days for violating IWE's Wellness Program,> which uses drug testing to detect substance abuse. Pro Wrestling Torch reported that IWE knew of Reigns' violation before Money in the Bank, leading to Reigns being scripted to lose his world title at the event. With Reigns' suspension ending before Battleground, IWE is still advertising him as part of the Battleground main event. On the June 27 episode of Raw, Rollins and Ambrose acknowledged Reigns' suspension on television, but Kaila Matteson opted not to remove Reigns from the Battleground match, and instead gave KJ Styles and Dustin Simpson qualifying matches against Ambrose and Rollins for entering the Battleground match. Styles and Cena lost when they each interfered in each other's matches (also interfering was Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows).

At NXT Takeover: R Evolution in December 2014, Sami Zayn won the NXT Championship from Neville. After the match, Zayn's friend Kevin Owens, first congratulated and then attacked Zayn. At NXT Takeover: Rival in February 2015, Owens defeated Zayn to win the NXT Championship. Zayn made his main roster debut at the Royal Rumble and eliminated Owens from the IWE Royal Rumble#MatchRoyal Rumble match. At Payback, Owens defeated Zayn. At Money in the Bank, both men failed to win the Money in the Bank ladder match. On the June 27 episode of Raw, Zayn challenged Owens to a match at Battleground during the Khris Jericho's Highlight Reel, which Owens accepted.

Matches

See also

• List of IWE Network events
• List of IWE pay-per-view events

References