IWE Night of Champions (2010)

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Night of Champions (2008)
Promotional poster featuring Chris LeGreca holding the World Heavyweight Championship
Tagline(s)	Every Championship Is On The Line
Theme song (s)	"Devour" by Shinedown
Imformation
Promotion	International Wrestling Entertainment
Date	September 19, 2010
Attendance	13,851
Venue	Allstate Arena
City	Chicago, Illinois
Pay-per-view chronology
SummerSlam (2010)	Night of Champions (2010)	Hell in a Cell (2010)
Vengeance chronology
Night of Champions (2009)	Night of Champions (2010)	Night of Champions (2011)

Night of Champions (2010) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by International Wrestling Entertainment (IWE), that took place on September 19, 2010 at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois. It was the third annual event to be promoted solely under the Night of Champions name and the tenth annual event under the Vengeance chronology. Similar to the previous three events, the concept of the show was that every championship in the company was defended at the event. It was also the first Night of Champions event to feature a non-title match. Seven matches took place at the event. The event had 165,000 buys, down on the Night of Champions 2009 figure of 267,000 buys.

Background

• See also: Professional wrestling

Night of Champions featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on International Wrestling Entertainment's (IWE) television programs. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

The main rivalry heading into Night of Champions from the Raw brand featured the defending champion Sheamus, Kevin McAlmond, Dustin Simpson, Khris Jericho, Edge and Daniel Gonzalez, feuding over the IWE Championship. At the Fatal 4-Way pay-per-view in June, Sheamus won the IWE Championship in a Fatal Four-Way match, and at IWE Money in the Bank in July, defeated Simpson to retain the title in a Steel Cage match. At SummerSlam, Sheamus lost to McAlmond in a championship match via disqualification, but as per IWE rules, retained the title. On the televised August 23 episode of Raw, the "anonymous" general manager of the show set up a series of matches that night to determine the next contender for the IWE Championship, and allowed Sheamus himself to handpick his opponent for Night of Champions. The matches saw Edge defeating B-Truth, Jericho defeating The Great Khali, and McAlmond defeating Joe Linderman and Kyle Johnson in a Triple Threat match, while The Miz defeated Simpson via disqualification. During the night, Gonzalez called off The Nexus' "truce" with Sheamus, and at the end of night decided to cash-in his right (due to winning the first season of IWE NXT) to challenge for the IWE Championship at Night of Champions. However, the general manager announced that Sheamus will defend his IWE title against McAlmond, Simpson, Jericho, Edge, and Gonzalez in a Six-Pack Challenge at Night of Champions. On the 900th episode of Raw, Khris Jericho added a stipulation that if he cannot win the championship, he will leave the IWE. However, the following week, he participated in a match with Joe Linderman under the stipulation that he would be taken out of the Night of Champions match if he did not win. Jericho lost the match and was removed from the Six-Pack Challenge. On the September 13 edition of Raw, the anonymous General Manager of Raw announced the match was changed to an elimination format. In addition, the General Manager also offered Khris Jericho an opportunity to re-insert himself in the match via a handicap steel cage match against The Heart Dynasty. Jericho was successful in defeating the duo and thus was re-admitted to the Six-Pack Challenge.

The main rivalry from the SmackDown brand featured the current champion Kane against his half-brother The Undertaker for the World Heavyweight Championship. About three months ago, The Undertaker had been mysteriously put in a vegetative state. Upon finding out about this, Kane had attempted to seek vengeance against the culprit. At the Money in the Bank pay-per-view, Kane had won the Money in the Bank ladder match and cashed in his briefcase later that night against then champion Scott Wright. Wright used his rematch clause on Kane to challenge him at SummerSlam but failed. During the weeks leading up to SummerSlam, Kane was convinced that Wright was the one behind the attack on his brother and upon defeating him, attempted to put him in a casket when The Undertaker appeared inside it. Upon seeing his brother again, Kane attacked The Undertaker turning him heel. On the September 3 episode of SmackDown, Kane challenged the Undertaker putting his Championship on the line and promises to end The Undertaker for good.

Another rivalry involved an inter-brand match involving the Divas Champion Denise and the Women's Champion Victoria and Amanda Johnson, collectively known as Team Lehr-Son, in a Title Unification Match. On May 14, Victoria had pinned then-Women's Champion Chandra Denney in a two-on-one handicap match which awarded Victoria the championship. However, both Victoria and Johnson decided to make themselves Co-Women's Champion (as, by their logic, the Championship was won in a handicap match), going as far as splitting the main championship belt to keep co-reign. At SummerSlam, Denise had won the Divas Championship from former champion Kassi Austin. After the match, Lehr-Son had attacked Denise. Their explanation being that they had defeated about everyone on the SmackDown brand as champions and decided to go after Raw Divas. On the 900th episode of Raw, Lehr-Son challenged Denise to a Title Unification Match. Denise accepted under one condition, their match would be a Lumberjill Match.

Another rivalry from Raw involved champion The Miz against Kody Brown for the IWE United States Championship. The feud had begun during the first season of NXT, when The Miz was Brown's storyline mentor, and felt that Brown did not respect him. Brown had been released from IWE in June, but returned at SummerSlam to join Team IWE, taking The Miz's place. Afterward, the two resumed their rivalry, distracting or attacking each other during matches, with The Miz joined by his rookie from the second season of NXT, Alex Riley. On the September 6 episode of Raw, Brown challenged The Miz for the United States Championship, which The Miz accepted.

Another SmackDown rivalry involved the champion Nick Kessler against Jose Serrano for the Intercontinental Championship. On the August 6 episode of SmackDown, Kessler defeated Serrano for his Intercontinental Championship. Serrano got a rematch at SummerSlam only for The Nexus to interfere resulting in a no contest. Following this, Serrano got several rematches against Kessler only to be disqualified for one of them and counted out for another. To correct this, General Manager Theodore Long declared that Kessler would defend his title against Serrano and if he were to be disqualified or counted out, then the title would go to Serrano.

Reception

Results

Tag Team Turmoil

Six-Pack Elimination Challenge