IWE Night of Champions (2011)
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| Night of Champions (2011) | ||
 Promotional poster featuring Kevin McAlmond | ||
| Tagline(s) | It's A Night You Will Never Forget | |
| Imformation | ||
| Promotion | IWE | |
| Date | September 18, 2011 | |
| Venue | HSBC Arena | |
| City | Buffalo, New York | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| SummerSlam (2011) | Night of Champions (2011) | Hell in a Cell (2011) |
| Night of Champions chronology | ||
| Night of Champions (2010) | Night of Champions (2011) | Night of Champions (2012) |
Night of Champions (2011) is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by IWE that will take place on September 18, 2011. Night of Champions will be held at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. It will be the 4th annual Night of Champions event.
Seven matches took place at the event, six of which were broadcast live on pay-per-view. The event featured multiple main events as Triple K defeated Justin Eldridge, Dustin Simpson defeated Alberto Del Rio to win the Undisputed IWE Championship, and Steven Larson defeated Kevin McAlmond to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
The event garnered 161,000 buys, down from 165,000 buys the previous year.
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[edit] Background
Night of Champions will feature professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that play out on IWE's television programs. Wrestlers will portray villains or heroes as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
The main rivalry from Raw involves the Undisputed IWE Champion Justin Marlen defending his title against former champion Dustin Simpson. Last month at Summerslam, Simpson had lost to Justin Hensen, who also had a claim to the IWE Championship. After the match, Money in the Bank winner Justin Marlen cashed in his contract after Eldridge was assaulted by Kevin Nash and won the Undisputed IWE Championship. On the August 22nd episode of Raw, Eldridge and Simpson both faced each other on Monday Night Raw to see who would face Justin Marlen which Simpson had won after some interference from Kevin Nash thus allowing Simpson to get his rematch for the title.
Another rivalry from Raw involves the former champion Justin Eldridge and the Chief Operating Officer Triple K in a No Disqualification match. As stated above, after Eldridge won the Undisputed IWE Championship, he was attacked by Kevin Nash who, the next day, stated that Triple K had sent him a message saying to "stick it" to the winner regardless who won, which gave Justin Marlen ample time to cash in his Money in the Bank contract and become IWE Champion. A vindictive Justin Eldridge would take his aggression out of Nash, Triple K, and his wife Brittany McMahon through constant verbal insults, especially to Triple K whom Eldridge believes instigated Nash's attack. On the August 29th episode of Raw, Eldridge and Nash were scheduled to be in a match at Night of Champions, but at the end of the show, Triple K had the match changed to feature Justin Eldridge against himself. The following week on Raw, after discovering that it was Nash that used Triple K's cell phone to make the text, fired him and changed the stipulation to be no disqualification. Eldridge in turn added his own stipulation that if Triple K lost to Eldridge, Triple K would have to step down as the COO of the IWE.
[edit] Reception
Night of Champions 2011 received mixed to positive reviews by the critics, with Dave Meltzer saying that the IWE had put on two awesome pay-per-view's, Money in the Bank (2011) and SummerSlam (2011) and Night of Champions could not follow them, and when the IWE seemed to take the good way, they turned back to the same, but that Night of Champions was a entertaining event. The Sun's Rob McNichol praised the match between Dustin Simpson and Alberto Del Rio, stating that Alberto proved to be a true champion, pulling off a valiant effort against Simpson, but was too much to overcome, but also criticized the end, and awarded the match a 8.5 out of 10. McNichol also praised the Kevin McAlmond vs Steven Larson match, saying that pulling Steven Larson to the main event status is a thing that the IWE had to do a long time ago, and adding that the match was better than expected, with Kevin trying to take the man off his feet, and Larson dominating McAlmond from the beginning to the end, and awarded the match a 8 out of 10. He gave a positive review to the No Disqualification match between Justin Eldridge and Triple K, stating that the match turned into a good brawl in the first fifteen minutes, but with all the interferences it seemed more a TNA match than a IWE main event match, but that the final sequences, with Eldridge kicking out cleanly to the pedigree made that a very entertaining match at all, awarding it a great 9.5 out of 10. Overall, he gave the event a 9.0 out of 10.
[edit] Results
| # | Matches | Stipulations | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dark | Kody Brown defeated Devin Keller | Singles match | |
| 1 | Air Boom (Jose Serrano and Justin Hensen) (c) defeated Awesome Truth (The Miz and B-Truth) via disqualification | Tag team match for the IWE Tag Team Championship | |
| 2 | Mark Semmler (c) defeated Kyle Johnson | Singles match for the IWE Intercontinental Championship | |
| 3 | Nick Kessler (with Lynn Lehr) (c) defeated Charlie Wilson, Alex Riley, and Joe Linderman | Fatal 4-Way match for the IWE United States Championship | |
| 4 | Steven Larson defeated Kevin McAlmond (c) | Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship | |
| 5 | Kelly Kelly (c) (with Nicole Bergman) defeated Chandra Denney (with Shannon | Singles match for the IWE Divas Championship | |
| 6 | Dustin Simpson defeated Alberto Del Rio (c) via submission | Singles match for the IWE Championship | |
| 7 | Triple K defeated Justin Eldridge | No Disqualification match; If Justin Eldridge would have won, Triple K would have to resign as COO of IWE | |
| (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match | |||
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official Night of Champions site
