WWE Night of Champions
WWE Night of Champions | ||
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Promotion WWE | | |
Brands | Raw (2007–2010, 2023, 2025) SmackDown (2007–2010, 2023, 2025) ECW (2007–2009) | |
Other name | Vengeance: Night of Champions (2007) | |
First event | Vengeance: Night of Champions (2007) | |
Event gimmick | Championship matches |
WWE Night of Champions is a
To coincide with the original WWE brand extension (2002–2011), the events from 2007 to 2010 featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands. The events from 2007 to 2009 also featured the ECW brand before that brand was dissolved in early 2010. During the first brand extension, these three brands were considered WWE's main roster. The brand extension ended in August 2011, but was reinstated in July 2016 with Raw and SmackDown again representing the main roster.
Under the event's original concept (2007–2015), 10 different WWE championships were contested at Night of Champions. Only four of these 10 championships were contested at every event during this time. These were the
History
On June 24, 2007,
In April 2011, the "WWE" acronym became an
In March 2023, WWE announced that they would be reviving the
Concept
The original concept of Night of Champions was that every championship promoted on WWE's main roster was contested.[10] This distinction of main roster championships came in 2012 after the establishment of NXT that year as the promotion's developmental territory, which introduced its own set of championships.[16][17][9][18] In 2010,[4] non-title matches began to be included on the card as less championships became available due to WWE unifying several titles that eventually led to the dissolution of the first brand extension in August 2011;[6] after the final title unification in December 2013, WWE had just five titles on the main roster through the 2015 event.[9][18]
With the revival of the event in 2023, this concept was not retained, as the WWE Championship,
The following table shows all championships that were contested at Night of Champions under its original concept from 2007 to 2015. In total, 10 different WWE championships were contested during these years. Although the 2023 event did not retain the original concept, it raised the total number of different championships defended at Night of Champions to 14. The 2025 event also did not retain this concept with only the WWE Championship and United States Championship defended at the event. It did, however, host the finals of the 2025 King and Queen of the Ring tournaments, which granted world championship matches to the respective winners at that year's SummerSlam.
Year | WWE | World Heavyweight (original) |
ECW | Intercontinental | United States | World Tag Team (original) |
WWE Tag Team (original) |
Women's (original) |
Divas | Cruiserweight (original) |
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- Notes
- The 2007 event, which was titled WWE Cruiserweight Championship, as the title was deactivated in September that same year.[1] A new Cruiserweight Championshipwas introduced in 2016 but was retired in 2022.
- The SmackDown Women's Championship. The Raw and SmackDown women's championships were then renamed as the WWE Women's Championship and Women's World Championship, respectively, after the 2023 event.
- In 2009, the original Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championshipin 2022. They were split in 2024, with the Raw and SmackDown tag titles subsequently renamed as the World Tag Team Championship and WWE Tag Team Championship, respectively.
- In February 2010, the ECW Championship along with it.[4]
- In December 2013, the original World Heavyweight Championship was unified into the WWE Championship, retiring the World Heavyweight Championship while the WWE Championship became known as the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.[9] With the reintroduction of the brand split in 2016, the title reverted to being called the WWE Championship, and in 2023, a new World Heavyweight Championship was introduced.
- The Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship. After the Universal Championship was retired, the WWE Championship became known as the Undisputed WWE Championship.
Events
See also
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