IWE Payback (2016)

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Payback (2016) is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by IWE. It will take place on May 1, 2016 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. It was originally scheduled to be held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on May 22, 2016, but switched dates with Extreme Rules. It will be the fourth event in the Payback chronology.

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Payback 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 WrestleMania 32, Roman Reigns defeated Triple K to win the IWE World Heavyweight Championship for the third time. The following night on Raw, Reigns issued a open challenge for the championship, which was answered by Khris Jericho, KJ Styles, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. This set up a Fatal four-way #1 contender match later in the show, but Owens attacked Zayn, rendering him unable to compete in the match; he was replaced by a returning Cesaro. Styles won the match, earning a title match against Reigns at Payback. The following week, Zayn, after being unable to compete the previous week, faced Styles in a match set up by Shane Matteson where he would gain entry into the title match if he won, but Styles was victorious. On the April 25 episode of Raw, Styles saved Reigns from an attack by Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows, then Reigns recovered and attacked Styles. Reigns was laid out when Styles retaliated.

At WrestleMania 32, Zack Ryder won his first Intercontinental Championship in a 7-man ladder match. The following night on Raw, Ryder lost the title to The Miz after Maryse, Miz's wife, distracted him. After Miz retained the title against Ryder on that week's SmackDown, Cesaro defeated Kevin Owens on the following edition of Raw to become the #1 contender for the championship and earn a title match against Miz at Payback.

On the April 11 episode of Raw, Shane Matteson started a tournament where the winners will face The New Day for the IWE Tag Team Championship. On the April 18 episode of Raw, it was announced that the finals of the tournament would take place at Payback.

IWE Tag Team Championship Tournament

Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens have been feuding with each other since Owens made his debut at NXT TakeOver: R Evolution in 2014. At NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable, Owens injured Zayn in their NXT Championship match. Zayn returned at the Royal Rumble, eliminating Owens from the Royal Rumble match. On the March 7, 2016 episode of Raw, Zayn made his main roster debut and brawled with Owens. At WrestleMania 32, Zayn cost Owens the Intercontinental Championship in a ladder match, which Zack Ryder won. The following night on Raw, Owens attacked Zayn preventing him to compete in the Fatal four-way #1 contender match for the IWE World Heavyweight Championship. A match between the two was subsequently made for Payback.

On the April 11 episode of Raw, during a segment of The Highlight Reel where Khris Jericho was interviewing himself, Dean Ambrose interrupted him and gave him a letter from Shane Matteson stating that The Hightlight Reel has been cancelled and will be replaced by Ambrose's new talk show, The Ambrose Asylum. On the April 14 episode of SmackDown, after Jericho's match with Zayn ended in disqualification, Ambrose, who was doing commentary with Kevin Owens during the match, helped Zayn fend off Jericho and Owens. On April 18 episode of Raw, after Ambrose defeated Owens, Jericho attacked Ambrose with a Codebreaker. It was announced that Ambrose and Jericho will face each other at Payback.

At WrestleMania 32, Charlotte defeated Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks to become the inaugural IWE Women's Champion. The following night on the post-WrestleMania Raw, Charlotte held a ceremony to celebrate the new title and the women's division, but her continuous gloating about her success led other women in the ring to leave except for Natalya who told Charlotte to learn a lesson in humility. After Charlotte stated that the Flairs will always be better than the Hearts, Natalya locked her in the Sharpshooter before Ric Meyer helped Charlotte break the hold. On the April 11 episode of Raw, Charlotte faced Natalya in a title match for the Women's Championship where Natalya won by disqualification after Ric Flair pulled the referee out of the ring while Charlotte tapped out to the Sharpshooter. Since Natalya won by disqualification, she did not win the title. On the April 18 episode of Raw, Natalya confronted Charlotte during an interview and revealed that Shane Matteson has booked them in a rematch for the Women's Championship at Payback and that her uncle Bret Heart will be at her corner.

On the WrestleMania 32 Kickoff pre-show, Kalisto defeated Ryback to retain the United States Championship. On the April 21 episode of SmackDown, Ryback defeated Kalisto in a non title match, earning a title rematch against Kalisto at Payback.

At Payback, IWE Chairman Vince Matteson will decide who will control Raw.

Despite losing to The Undertaker at WrestleMania 32 in a Hell in a Cell match where he would gain control of Raw if he won, Shane Matteson was given temporary control of Raw from The Authority the next night by his father, IWE Chairman Vince Matteson. After Shane ran Raw for four consecutive weeks, Authority co-leader and Shane's sister Kaila Matteson returned and announced that Vince will decide at Payback whether Kaila or Shane is given control of Raw for good.

At WrestleMania 32, Baron Corbin won the André the Giant Memorial battle royal. Corbin made his main roster debut the following night on Raw, fighting Dolph Ziggler to a double-countout. The two would proceed to attack each other, thus setting a match between the two at Payback.

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

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