Payback (2013)

Payback (2013)

Promotional poster featuring Randy Orton
Tagline(s) Payback...Is Coming
Theme
song(s)		 "Another Way Out" by Hollywood Undead
Information
Promotion WWE
Date June 16, 2013
Attendance 12,500[1]
Venue Allstate Arena
City Rosemont, Illinois
Pay-per-view chronology

Extreme Rules (2013) Payback (2013) Money in the Bank (2013)
Payback chronology

First Payback (2013) Payback (2014)

Payback (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on June 16, 2013 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois.[2] It was the first annual Payback event, and replaces No Way Out. The event received 186,000 buys, down from the last year's No Way Out pay per view of 194,000.[3]

Background

Payback featured professional wrestling matches that involved wrestlers from pre-existing feuds, plots, and storylines that play out on WWE's primary television programs, Raw and SmackDown. 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.[4][5]

John Cena and Ryback feuded together prior to the event.

After their Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules in May, which ended in no-contest, Ryback drove an ambulance into the arena on the May 20 episode of Raw, challenging John Cena in an Ambulance match for his WWE Championship. A week later on Raw, Cena responded by turning the challenge into Three Stages of Hell, with the first fall being a lumberjack match, the second fall a tables match, and the originally-decided Ambulance match as the third fall. Ryback accepted the new stipulation, making the match official.[6]

On the May 27 episode of Raw, Chris Jericho hosted "The Highlight Reel" segment with Paul Heyman as his guest, where he inquired the latter about one of his clients, CM Punk's absence from the WWE since April and May, and much like in their feud early the previous year, disputed with Heyman on who between the two of them was the "best in the world". To put that argument to rest, Jericho issued a challenge to Punk at Payback, which Heyman subsequently accepted on Punk's behalf.[7] On June 3, 2013, during an episode of Raw, the contract for the match was signed between Jericho and Heyman, again on Punk's behalf. On the June 7 episode of SmackDown, Curtis Axel defeated Jericho after Heyman, Axel's manager, distracted him by playing Punk's theme tune. After the match, Jericho hit Axel with his finishing maneuver, the CodeBreaker.

On the April 8 episode of Raw, Alberto Del Rio defeated Jack Swagger and his manager, Zeb Colter in a two-on-one handicap match, and was subjected to a post-match beatdown from the duo, allowing Dolph Ziggler a chance to cash-in his Money in the Bank contract for the World Heavyweight Championship that was held by Del Rio; after a short match, Ziggler pinned Del Rio to win the title for the second time. This started a triangular feud amongst Ziggler, Del Rio (who wanted a rematch for the title as per his championship rematch clause) and Swagger (who claimed to be the number one contender to the title), which was to culminate in a Triple Threat Ladder match for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view on May 19. However, heading into that event, Ziggler suffered a legitimate concussion in a non-title match against Swagger at the May 7 tapings of SmackDown (aired on May 10), thereby preventing him from competing at Extreme Rules. Instead, Del Rio and Swagger faced off each other in an "I Quit" match to decide the number one contender to Ziggler's title, which Del Rio won. Ziggler returned on the June 10 episode of Raw, and announced he would defend his championship against Del Rio at Payback.

On the May 20 episode of SmackDown, Fandango attacked The Miz during an Intercontinental Championship match against the champion Wade Barrett. During a match between Barrett and Fandango, the WWE universe voted for Miz to be the special guest referee for the match. Barrett shoved Miz, which caused Miz to intentionally attack Barrett to allow Fandango to pin him, but then Miz proceeded to attack Fandango. As Miz still had his rematch clause from the Raw after WrestleMania 29, he invoked it for Payback, thus setting up a Triple Threat Match between himself, Barrett, and Fandango. On the June 7 episode of SmackDown, Fandango suffered a concussion, therefore he was removed from the triple threat match. It was revealed on the June 10 episode of Raw by Paul Heyman that Fandango would be replaced with his client, Curtis Axel.

Also, on the June 7 episode of SmackDown, Kane had a falling out with Daniel Bryan, leading to the apparent breakup of Team Hell No. Bryan was teamed with Randy Orton to face The Shield's Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns, winning the match by disqualification after Dean Ambrose attacked the two. Meanwhile, Kane faced Ryback, winning by disqualification after Ryback put Kane through a table, sending a message to John Cena. On the June 10 episode of Raw, it was announced by Raw Managing Supervisor Vickie Guerrero that Bryan and Orton would face Rollins and Reigns for the WWE Tag Team Championship, and Kane will face Ambrose for the WWE United States Championship.

On the April 22 episode of Raw, AJ Lee won a divas battle royal to become the number one contender for the Divas Championship. On the April 29 episode of Raw, after a confrontation with AJ, Dolph Ziggler, and Big E Langston backstage, Kaitlyn started receiving gifts from a secret admirer,[8] and a bouquet of roses on the May 3 episode of SmackDown.[9] On the June 10 episode of Raw, Kaitlyn's secret admirer was revealed to be Langston, although it turned out to be a mind game planned by AJ who just wanted to get inside Kaitlyn's head prior to their match for the Divas Championship.[10]

Event

During the pre-show, Sheamus defeated Damien Sandow after performing a Brogue Kick.

Preliminary matches

The first match of the night was a triple threat match for the Intercontinental Championship between champion Wade Barrett, Curtis Axel (accompanied by Paul Heyman) and The Miz. Axel won the match after Miz applied the figure-four leglock on Barrett and Axel simultaneously covered Barrett for the pin. Axel celebrated his win by looking to the sky and kissing the title, in memory of his father, a former Intercontinental Champion.

The second match pitted Divas Champion Kaitlyn against AJ Lee (accompanied by Big E Langston). Towards the end of the match, Kaitlyn stripped AJ of the belt on her jeans and when the referee was distracted, AJ struck Kaitlyn with the belt when the referee was not looking. Kaitlyn attempted the spear, but AJ then applied the Black Widow, making Kaitlyn tap out. Therefore, AJ won her first Divas Championship.

In the third match, The Shield's Dean Ambrose defended the United States Championship against Kane. Later in the match, Kane and Ambrose began wrestling outside the ring. Kane attempted to chokeslam Ambrose through the Spanish announce table, but Ambrose reversed into the headlock driver onto the mat. As a result, Ambrose retained his title by countout.

The fourth match was between World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler (accompanied by new Divas Champion AJ Lee and Big E Langston) versus Alberto Del Rio (accompanied by Ricardo Rodriguez). A double turn took place during this match, with Del Rio playing off Ziggler's legitimate concussion by repeatedly kicking Ziggler in the head. Ultimately, Del Rio was victorious in the match.

The fifth match was between Chris Jericho and the returning CM Punk (accompanied by Paul Heyman). During the match, Punk attempted to perform his finishing move the GTS, but Jericho blocked it and locks Punk in his submission move, the Walls of Jericho. Punk escaped from the hold, and the two both continue to attempt their signature moves on each other. At the end of the match, Punk performed the GTS twice on Jericho, and then pinned him for the win.

The sixth match was between The Shield (Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) against Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton for the WWE Tag Team Championship. At the end of the match, Rollins attempted a pin on Bryan, who countered it into the No Lock. Reigns breaks the hold and attempts a spear, but Orton tries to RKO him. However, the RKO is blocked, and Reigns speared Bryan. Orton then got taken out after hitting a RKO on Reigns. For the finish, Rollins performed the Blackout on Bryan for the win.

Main event match

The final match at Payback was a Three Stages of Hell match, between John Cena, the WWE Champion, and #1 contender Ryback.

Stage 1 was a Lumberjack match. At one point, Ryback was thrown out of the ring, resulting in all the lumberjacks starting a huge brawl with each other. This culminating in Cena diving from the top rope onto everyone else on the floor. The lumberjacks threw both men into the ring, where Cena performed his STF submission hold. Ryback, however, fought out and performed his signature Shell Shocked for the pin.

Stage 2 was a Tables match, which Cena won this by performing an Attitude Adjustment on Ryback through a table, tying the overall match at 1-1.

Stage 3 was an Ambulance match. They climbed to the top of the ambulance, where Cena used crutches as a weapon, before delivering an Attitude Adjustment on Ryback onto the roof of the ambulance. As a result, the roof of the vehicle caved in, sending Ryback into the vehicle, sealing the victory for Cena, who retained the WWE Championship.[11]

Aftermath

The next night on Raw, John Cena challenged anybody to step forward for a shot at the WWE Championship. Mark Henry returned to seemingly announce his retirement before hitting Cena with a World's Strongest Slam. Later, Mr. McMahon announced that Cena would defend his title against Henry at Money in the Bank.

CM Punk along with Paul Heyman came out to challenge Alberto Del Rio to a match the next night on Raw. Afterwards, Punk told Heyman that while he was still a Paul Heyman guy, he does not want Heyman to be at ringside for any more of his matches. Later that night, Punk defeated Del Rio in that match via countout. During the match, Del Rio tried to back away from the match, but Dolph Ziggler attacked him from behind. After that, Brock Lesnar came out and hit Punk with a F-5.

On the June 21 episode of SmackDown, Alberto Del Rio defeated Chris Jericho via disqualification as Dolph Ziggler assaulted him. Upset that Ziggler interfered, Jericho gave Ziggler a Codebreaker and Del Rio kicked him in the head. It was announced on the June 24 episode of Raw that Del Rio would face Ziggler for the World Heavyweight Championship at Money in the Bank.

Kane was given another shot at the United States Championship against Dean Ambrose. He won via disqualification when Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns interfered, but the title did not change hands.

Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton faced each other in a no disqualification match, but Bryan suffered nerve damage, giving Orton the victory by match stoppage. Afterwards, Bryan got into an argument with Triple H backstage because of Triple H stopping the match. Four days later on SmackDown, the two men faced each other again with Bryan getting the countout victory over Orton. Bryan, however, was dissatisfied with the result. Three days later on Raw, Bryan and Orton faced each other again in a match, but it resulted in a double disqualification, so Vickie Guerrero, with the advice of Triple H, granted the rematch with the WWE Universe voting on the stipulation. Later in the night, they faced each other in a street fight, with Bryan defeating Orton by submission.

On the next night's Raw, Sheamus faced Team Rhodes Scholars (Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow) in a two-on-one handicap match, but lost. Four days later on SmackDown, Rhodes faced Sheamus in a losing effort, and after the match, Sandow attacked Sheamus. Three days later on Raw, Sheamus teamed with Christian to defeat Team Rhodes Scholars. On SmackDown, Sheamus defeated Sandow in a Dublin Street Fight.

Christian returned on the June 17 episode of Raw. Four days later on SmackDown, after beating Drew McIntyre, The Shield attacked him, setting up a match on Main Event between Christian and Dean Ambrose. Christian won after Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns attacked him, until The Usos saved him. On the June 24 episode of Raw, The Usos won a triple threat tag team match to determine the #1 contenders to the WWE Tag Team Championship. Christian and The Usos defeated The Shield on the June 28 episode of SmackDown.

On the June 24 episode of Raw, Chris Jericho and Ryback fought over being left off the card for Money in the Bank, so Vickie Guerrero put them in a match against each other at the PPV.

The feud between AJ Lee and Kaitlyn continued at Money in the Bank, where AJ (with Big E Langston) defeated Kaitlyn (with Layla) to retain the WWE Divas Championship.

Results

No. Results Stipulations Times
1P Sheamus defeated Damien Sandow Singles match[12] 10:25[13]
2 Curtis Axel (with Paul Heyman) defeated Wade Barrett (c) and The Miz Triple threat match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship[14] 10:34[13]
3 AJ Lee (with Big E Langston) defeated Kaitlyn (c) by submission Singles match for the WWE Divas Championship[15] 09:52[13]
4 Dean Ambrose (c) defeated Kane by countout Singles match for the WWE United States Championship[16] 09:33[13]
5 Alberto Del Rio (with Ricardo Rodriguez) defeated Dolph Ziggler (c) (with AJ Lee and Big E Langston) Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship[17] 13:48[13]
6 CM Punk (with Paul Heyman) defeated Chris Jericho Singles match[18] 21:19[13]
7 The Shield (Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) (c) defeated Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton Tag team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship[19] 12:07[13]
8 John Cena (c) defeated Ryback 2–1 Three Stages of Hell match for the WWE Championship[20] 24:40[13]
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
  • P – indicates the match took place on the pre-show

Lumberjacks for 3 Stages of Hell match (stage 1): Alex Riley, Antonio Cesaro, Big E Langston, Brodus Clay, Cody Rhodes, Curt Hawkins, Curtis Axel, Damien Sandow, Darren Young, Drew McIntyre, Epico, Heath Slater, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, Jinder Mahal, JTG, Justin Gabriel, Kane, Primo, R-Truth, Sheamus, Sin Cara, Ted DiBiase, Tensai, The Great Khali, The Miz, Titus O'Neil, Wade Barrett, Yoshi Tatsu and Zack Ryder.

See also

References

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  9. ↑ Tedesco, Mike. "WWE SMACKDOWN RESULTS - 5/3/13 (KANE VS. AMBROSE)". Wrestleview. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
  10. ↑ Bishop, Matt. "Raw: Bryan, Rollins tear house down". SLAM! Wrestling. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
  11. ↑ Johnson, Mike. "COMPLETE WWE PAYBACK PPV COVERAGE: TITLE CHANGES, BIG NAME RETURNING AND MORE". pwinsider.com. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Damien Sandow vs. Sheamus". WWE. 10 June 2013.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "WWE Payback '13". ProFightDB. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
  14. ↑ "Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett vs. The Miz vs. Paul heyman". WWE. 10 June 2013.
  15. ↑ "Divas Champion Kaitlyn vs. AJ Lee". WWE. 10 June 2013.
  16. ↑ "United States Champion Dean Ambrose vs. Kane". WWE. 10 June 2013.
  17. ↑ "World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler vs. Alberto Del Rio". WWE. 10 June 2013.
  18. ↑ "Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk". WWE. 27 May 2013.
  19. ↑ "Tag Team Champions The Shield vs. Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton". WWE. 10 June 2013.
  20. ↑ "Three Stages Of Hell WWE Championship Match". WWE. 20 May 2013.
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