Night of Champions (2010)
WWE's 2010 Night of Champions pay-per-views
The 2010 Night of Champions was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the fourth annual Night of Champions and took place on September 19, 2010, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The theme of the event was that all seven of WWE's active championships at the time were defended.
Seven matches took place at the event. There were two main events: one from Raw and one from SmackDown. In the Raw main event, which was the final match, Randy Orton defeated defending champion Sheamus, John Cena, Wade Barrett, Chris Jericho, and Edge in a six-man elimination challenge match to win the WWE Championship, while in the SmackDown main event, Kane defeated The Undertaker in a No Holds Barred match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. Other prominent matches included Dolph Ziggler retaining SmackDown's Intercontinental Championship against Kofi Kingston, Daniel Bryan defeating The Miz to win Raw's United States Championship, and Michelle McCool, wrestling on behalf of SmackDown's Women's Champion Layla, defeating Raw's Divas Champion Melina in a Lumberjill match to unify the tites. In the only non-title match on the card, Big Show defeated CM Punk.
The event had 165,000 pay-per-view buys, down on the 2009 figure of 267,000 buys. This was the final Night of Champions held during the first brand split, which ended in August 2011, but was reinstated in July 2016.
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