| Night of Champions | ||
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| Promotional poster featuring Ciaran O'Donnell & Billy Cassidy | ||
| Tagline: "A night you will never forget" | ||
| Theme(s): "Night of Gold" by CFO$ | ||
| Information | ||
| Promotion | WWE The E-Fed | |
| Sponsor | Mountain Dew No Good Deed | |
| Date | September 21, 2014 | |
| Venue | Bridgestone Arena | |
| City | Nashville, Tennessee | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| SummerSlam | Night of Champions | Halloween Havoc |
| Night of Champions chronology | ||
| Judgment Day (2013) | Night of Champions | Night of Champions (2015) |
Night of Champions (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by WWE The E-Fed that took place on September 21, 2014 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. The event was only the second Night of Champions event after it was discontinued after the inaugural event that took place in 2010. It was WWE's ninth pay-per-view event to take place in 2014.
Production[]
Background[]
Night of Champions will feature professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that play out on WWE's primary television program; RAW. Wrestlers 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 SummerSlam Billy Cassidy defeated Roman Reigns to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.
The main storyline heading into Night of Champions is based around Triple H buying out SmackDown and merging the two brands together forming one large Supershow. The champions from Raw and Smackdown are all scheduled to face off with one another in unification matches with the SmackDown championships simply being retired. It was revealed by new General Manager of Raw Mick Foley that these matches won't necessarily be contested between the two champions and could involve multiple superstars. The night after SummerSlam it was revealed that Ciaran O'Donnell would defend his WWE Championship against World Heavyweight Champion, Billy Cassidy. Intercontinental Champion, Seth Rollins will defend his title against United States Champion, Jeff Hardy and Women's Champion, Maryse Ouellet will defend her title against WWE Diva's Champion, Sally Mason, all three matches are scheduled to be unification matches with the SmackDown titles being rendered inactive directly following the PPV.
Results[]
| No. | Matches | Stipulations | |
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| 1 | The Usos defeated Corey Graves (c) & Billy Cassidy (c) | Tag team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship | |
| 2 | John Cena & Travis Kooper defeated Mark Henry & Ryback | Unsanctioned Brawl | |
| 3 | Danielle Moinet & Natalie Nova defeated The Beautiful People (c) | Tag team match for the WWE Divas Tag Team Championship | |
| 4 | Maria Kanellis defeated Trish Stratus and Sunny | Triple threat match | |
| 5 | Dolph Ziggler defeated Jake Anderson, Jeff Hardy, Seth Rollins (c), Nick Mitchell & Eugene | Championship Scramble match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship | |
| 6 | Shane Helms defeated Bray Wyatt | First Blood match | |
| 7 | Maryse Ouellet (c) defeated Sally Mason | Singles match for the WWE Women's Championship | |
| 8 | Roman Reigns defeated Ciaran O'Donnell (c) and Billy Cassidy | Triple threat match for the WWE Championship | |