Episode 2216
Night of Champions (2023)
Sun, 2023-May-28 02:31 UTC
Length - 2:52
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With 506,309 views on Saturday, 27 May 2023 our article of the day is Night of Champions (2023).
The 2023 Night of Champions was the 10th Night of Champions professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American promotion WWE. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event took place on Saturday, May 27, 2023, at the Jeddah Super Dome in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and was the first Night of Champions held since the 2015 event. This was also the first Night of Champions to take place on a Saturday and the first held in Saudi Arabia, subsequently making it the ninth event that WWE is holding in the country under a 10-year partnership in support of Saudi Vision 2030.
The original concept of Night of Champions (2007–2015) was that every main roster championship was contested. This theme was not retained for the 2023 event, and instead, it celebrated the crowning of a new World Heavyweight Champion and also marked the 1,000th day for Roman Reigns as Universal Champion. Instead of defending his title, Reigns teamed with Solo Sikoa to challenge Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship in which Owens and Zayn won to retain the titles. This was one of three matches promoted as part of a triple main event, the other two main event matches were the aforementioned World Heavyweight Championship match, which saw Seth "Freakin" Rollins defeat AJ Styles to become the inaugural champion in the opening bout, and a match between Cody Rhodes and Brock Lesnar, which Lesnar won via referee stoppage.
The event was originally announced to be held as an event titled "King and Queen of the Ring", which would have revived the King of the Ring event series but with a rebranding; WWE then decided to instead revive Night of Champions. This was the first Night of Champions held following the reintroduction of the brand split in July 2016 and the first to livestream on Peacock after the American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock in March 2021. The event also replaced the previously annual Hell in a Cell event.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:31 UTC on Sunday, 28 May 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see Night of Champions (2023) on Wikipedia.
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