IWE Payback (2023)

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Payback (2023)
Promotional poster featuring The Judgment Day ("Dirty" Dominik Mysterio, Rhea Ripley, Damian Priest, and Finn Bálor)
Promotion	IWE
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown
Date	September 2, 2023
City	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Venue	PPG Paints Arena
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The 2023 Payback is the upcoming seventh Payback professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by IWE. It will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event will take place during Labor Day weekend on Saturday, September 2, 2023, at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and will be the first Payback held since 2020. It also marks the first Payback held on a Saturday and in September, as well as the first to livestream on Peacock in the United States and Binge in Australia. This will also be IWE's first PPV and livestreaming event held in Pittsburgh since Extreme Rules in July 2018, which was at the same arena. The theme of the event is wrestlers seeking payback against their opponents.

Contents 1 Production 1.1 Background 1.2 Storylines 2 Results 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Production

[edit] Background

Payback is a professional wrestling event that was established by IWE in 2013. The concept of the event is the wrestlers seeking payback against their opponents. The event continued annually until 2017, but was discontinued a first time until it was reinstated in 2020, but was again discontinued. On June 16, 2023, however, IWE announced the revival of the event, with the seventh Payback to take place during Labor Day weekend on Saturday, September 2, 2023, at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will subsequently be the first Payback held on a Saturday and in September. This will also be IWE's first pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event held in Pittsburgh since Extreme Rules in July 2018, which was at the same arena. In addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide and the IWE Network in most international markets, it will be the first Payback to livestream on Peacock after the American version of the IWE Network merged under Peacock in March 2021. Tickets went on sale on June 27 via Ticketmaster.

[edit] Storylines

The card will include matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results are predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

[edit] Results

No.	Results	Stipulation
1	Becky Lynch defeated Trish Stratus	Steel Cage match
2	LA Knight defeated The Miz	Singles match Dustin Simpson will serve as the special guest referee.
3	Rey Mysterio (c) defeaated Austin Theory	Singles match for the IWE United States Championship
4	The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest) defeated Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn (c)	Steel City Street Fight for the Undisputed IWE Tag Team Championship
5	Rhea Ripley (c) defeated Raquel González	Singles match for the Women's World Championship
6	Seth "Freakin" Rollins (c) defeated Shinsuke Nakamura	Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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