Bang for Your Buck PPV Review: Night of Champions (2013)

WWE Championship Match

Daniel Bryan defeats Randy Orton to become WWE Champion

What Will Happen: Ref bump, flying knee kick, no ref, Orton punches Daniel Bryan in dick, Braddox comes out, fast count.

This was a very good match between two of the hottest performers, but that ending gives me the Howling Starrcades. Hopefully, this leads to the title being held up and not just handed back to Orton. But, given the way the announce team (and Jerry Lawler) was staying on message when it came Daniel Bryan’s “never say die” attitude and “perseverance”, it seems highly unlikely they don’t keep this going.

I don’t want another crooked ref storyline unless Braddox is involved, so hopefully they simply say he should have not been allowed back in the match and make it so no one is champion.

This match did everything it was supposed to: established Daniel Bryan’s finisher, ability to come through in the clutch and how over he is right now, while Randy Orton was beaten clean in the middle of the ring while the crowd lost their shit. The ending is the reason it didn’t feel like as big a deal as it should. It’s not that it made no sense. It just left us with the feeling it made too much sense

Match: +.8

PPV Overall: 4.0 | Avg: .5

While this wasn’t the best PPV this year, it had the deepest non-Mania card, with 8 matches and a bonus free one rounding out what was a solid but not exceptional card. Definitely got our money’s worth, but this isn’t the type of PPV that makes me want to buy more in the way that Money in the Bank and SummerSlam did. Which is why the per-match average was decidedly lower than our previous reviews (.54ish to .5)

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