Episode 2315
Payback (2023)
Mon, 2023-Sep-04 01:18 UTC
Length - 2:45
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With 371,109 views on Sunday, 3 September 2023 our article of the day is Payback (2023).
The 2023 Payback was the seventh Payback professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event took place during Labor Day weekend on Saturday, September 2, 2023, at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was the first Payback held since 2020. It also marked 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 was WWE'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 was wrestlers seeking payback against their opponents. John Cena served as the host of the event.
Six matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Seth "Freakin" Rollins defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to retain Raw's World Heavyweight Championship. In other prominent matches, Rhea Ripley defeated Raquel Rodriguez to retain Raw's Women's World Championship, SmackDown's LA Knight defeated Raw's The Miz which had John Cena as the special guest referee, and in the opening bout, Becky Lynch defeated Trish Stratus in a Steel Cage match. The event also featured the return of Jey Uso, who had "quit" WWE a few weeks before the event and was transferred to the Raw roster upon his return.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:18 UTC on Monday, 4 September 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see Payback (2023) on Wikipedia.
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