Battleground 2013 2013-10-06

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Battleground 2013

Date
Sun 6th October 2013 (UTC)

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WWE

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2013

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Battleground (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on October 6, 2013 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, New York. This pay-per-view was announced on the April 8, 2013 Raw as the new October WWE pay-per-view, a week after Over the Limit. This was the first annual Battleground event.

After defeating Randy Orton at Night of Champions for the WWE Championship, Daniel Bryan was stripped of the title after referee Scott Armstrong admitted to a fast 3-count. However, Triple H did not give Orton the title back since he and his wife Stephanie McMahon believed that Orton's performance at Night of Champions was not what they wanted the face of the WWE to be, stating that they wanted the more ruthless Orton that they feuded with previously. It was then announced that Bryan and Orton would face off once more for the vacant championship.

At Night of Champions Rob Van Dam faced the champion Alberto Del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship in which Van Dam won by disqualification. On the September 20 episode of SmackDown, Triple H gave Van Dam a rematch with Del Rio at Battleground for the World Heavyweight Championship. Immediately afterwards, Del Rio would proceed to viciously assault Van Dam backstage. The next week, the match was made as a Hardcore match. On the October 4 episode of SmackDown, Van Dam defeated Fandango via disqualification, but after the match, Van Dam placed a trash can at Fandango's face, and hit him with a Van Terminator. Later that night, Van Dam sent the broken trash can to Del Rio as a "gift" for him.

CM Punk began feuding with Paul Heyman in July after Heyman cost him the Money in the Bank ladder match for a WWE Championship contract at Money in the Bank (due to Punk earlier telling Heyman he didn't want him to be his manager). This resulted in Punk fighting and losing to Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam. Punk continued to feud with Heyman and his other client, Curtis Axel resulting in a handicap elimination match at Night of Champions. After Axel was eliminated, Punk handcuffed and beat down Heyman much like Heyman had done to him a couple of weeks prior on Raw. However, Ryback made the save, putting Punk through a table and costing him the match. On the September 23 episode of Raw, it was announced that Punk would face Ryback at Battleground.

Also on September 23, Brie Bella pinned AJ Lee during a 10-diva tag team match, leading to Brie receiving a match for AJ's Divas Championship at the pay-per-view.

On the September 30 episode of Raw, Cody Rhodes (who had weeks earlier been fired from WWE in part due to perceived insubordination by Triple H) and Goldust (who was lobbying to get his younger brother's job back) were given a non-title tag team match against WWE Tag Team Champions of The Shield (Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) by Triple H and Stephanie McMahon; if the Rhodes brothers had won, they would got their jobs back. If the Shield had won, Goldust and Cody's father Dusty Rhodes would been fired from his position as an NXT trainer, and the Rhodes Family would be banned from WWE.

On the July 8 episode of Raw, Brock Lesnar severely injured the neck of Matt Storm, after executing 12 German suplexes and 3 F-5s. Then on the August 9 episode of Smackdown, Matt Storm returned to attack Brock Lesnar. On the August 5 episode of Raw, both Brock and Matt were featured in an all out brawl. Triple H then announced that Brock Lesnar and Matt Storm would fight in a No Disqualification match.

The same night, R-Truth defeated Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel in a non-title match. Two nights later on Main Event, it was announced that Truth would get a title match against Axel at Battleground.

On the September 30 Raw and the October 4 SmackDown, Bray Wyatt delivered cryptic messages to Kofi Kingston after Kingston's matches, leading to a match between them at the pay-per-view.

Another scheduled match featured Santino Marella teaming with The Great Khali to take on The Real Americans (Antonio Cesaro and Jack Swagger) in a tag team match.

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Result List

Result Description
World Heavyweight Title Battleground Hardcore Rules Match
Alberto Del Rio (c) defeated Rob Van Dam (w/Ricardo Rodriguez) (17:08)

Tag Team Match
The Real Americans (Antonio Cesaro & Jack Swagger) (w/Zeb Colter) defeated Santino Marella & The Great Khali (w/Hornswoggle) (7:11)

WWE Intercontinental Title Match
Curtis Axel (w/Paul Heyman) (c) defeated R-Truth (7:36)

WWE Divas Title Match
AJ Lee (c) defeated Brie Bella (6:37)

Non Title Tag Team Match
Cody Rhodes & Goldust (w/Dusty Rhodes) defeated The Shield (Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins) (w/Dean Ambrose) (13:54)

Singles Match
Bray Wyatt (w/Erick Rowan & Luke Harper) defeated Kofi Kingston (8:27)

Singles Match
CM Punk defeated Ryback (w/Paul Heyman) (14:47)

WWE Heavyweight Title Match (vacant)
Daniel Bryan vs. Randy Orton - No Contest (25:00)

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