WWE Night of Champions 2012 - RESULTS IN OP

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Live on PPV Sept. 16, 2012 at 8/7p from TD Gardens in Boston, MA

WWE Championship

CM Punk defends his WWE Championship against johncena

World Heavyweight Championship

@wwesheamus (c) defends against Alberto Del Rio

Divas' Championship

@mslayla (c) defends against @kaitlynwwe

Battle of Former World Heavyweight Champions

@randyorton battles Mr. (WHC) Money in the Bank @heelziggler

In the WWE on YouTube Preshow:
Battle Royal for a shot at the United States Championship

?? Men will enter with the last man standing facing @antoniocesaro on the PPV.

WWE Tag Team Championship

@truekofi (c) and @ronkillings (c) defend their titles against My Little Tag Team: Friendship is Magic of @wwedanielbryan and Kane

WWE Intercontinental Championship

@mikethemiz (c) defends his Intercontinental Title against @reymysterio, @codyrhodeswwe and Sin Cara

Results:

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}Zack Ryder wins the preshow battle royal and will face Antonio Cesaro for the US Title on PPV.

JBL is introduced as King's replacement

WWE IC Title Match
Miz retains pinning Cody Rhodes

Eve is dealing with the PTPs when security alerts her to Kaitlyn injured in the hall. Kaitlyn says she was attacked from behind and had her ankle injured. Eve tells her she cannot compete tonight but will get her shot in the future.

WWE Tag Team Title Match
Daniel Bryan pushes Kane off the top rope and onto Kofi Kingston to win the WWE Tag Team Titles for My Little Tag Team: Friendship is Magic!

Eve tells Booker that the medics will not clear Kaitlyn to compete tonight and asks Booker to change the date of Kaitlyn's title match and he agrees. Teddy then points out that every title must be defended tonight and Booker decides to reward Eve for her hard work, pinning the champ in singles action and coming second in the Battle Royal by giving her the match tonight.

WWE US Title Match
Antonio Cesaro pins Zack Ryder

Battler of Former World Heavyweight Champions
Randy Orton hits a lifting RKO to pin Dolph Ziggler.

WWE Divas' Championship
Eve defeats Layla to win the Divas' Championship.

World Heavyweight Championship Match
Before the bell rings, Booker T. reinstates the Brogue Kick
What do you think? Brogue Kick, Sheamus wins.

Paul Heyman promo introducing CM Punk
WWE Championship Match
John Cena beats CM Punk with a bridging German Suplex off the top rope! WAIT! THE REF RULES BOTH MEN'S SHOULDERS DOWN AND AWARDS THE TITLE TO CM PUNK VIA DRAW!

[Cronant]

The only time of the year where every title is on the line!

Is that true this year? We were a divas title match away from it for Summerslam, and I don't think the IC/US belts ever both get defended at the same PPV.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Thanks for relieving me of my PPV thread duties. ;D

I couldn't manage another one.

[BorneAgain]

Alright NOC, which will in no way feature matches at all similar to those at Summerslam such as Del Rio vs. Sheamus in a gimmick match or Cena vs. CM Punk.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Cena vs. CM Punk is definitely a likelihood, considering the ending of the 3-Way Dance at SummerSlam.

[FinalGwen]

I can't wait to see Del Rio and Sheamus standing creepily close together.

[Cronant]

6 titles.

I'm predicting 4 change hands. IC and US will stay with Miz and Cesaro.

[Threadkiller [Classic]]

Live from Boston likely means...

[KRUGkiller]

wwe title
punk vs cena

world heavyweight title
sheamus vs del rio
60 minute iron man match ?

[Some Guy]

Aug 19, 2012 22:20:34 GMT -5 Threadkiller [Classic] said:

Live from Boston likely means...

Boston HATES Cena though, so I don't know if it's the best idea. And I greatly anticipate ADR/Sheamus basically holding hands with super zooms on their neck/head area.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Aug 19, 2012 22:20:34 GMT -5 Threadkiller [Classic] said:

Live from Boston likely means...

Live from Boston means Cena's jobbing. You know, the usual hometown hero treatment.

[gl83]

What will Daniel Bryan be doing then? He's become a big star in his own right so he has to make it onto the ppv some way as well. Maybe they'll combine what happened with the Triple Threat match and the Kane/Bryan match and make a Championship Scramble match for the WWE Title with Kane/Bryan/Punk/Show/Cena.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Aug 20, 2012 0:57:13 GMT -5 gl83 said:

What will Daniel Bryan be doing then? He's become a big star in his own right so he has to make it onto the ppv some way as well. Maybe they'll combine what happened with the Triple Threat match and the Kane/Bryan match and make a Championship Scramble match for the WWE Title with Kane/Bryan/Punk/Show/Cena.

I kind of hope they do that. Cramming that many stars into one match might allow some midcarders to get on the card.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Well, we only have six titles these days, so there has to be something besides title matches.

Also, this might be the first PPV to finally have the WWE title close the show. Ironically, CM Punk closed last year's NoC in a non-title match.

[CH Punk]

Aug 20, 2012 0:57:13 GMT -5 gl83 said:

What will Daniel Bryan be doing then? He's become a big star in his own right so he has to make it onto the ppv some way as well. Maybe they'll combine what happened with the Triple Threat match and the Kane/Bryan match and make a Championship Scramble match for the WWE Title with Kane/Bryan/Punk/Show/Cena.

It's probably going to be Daniel Bryan and Kane vs Kofi and R-Truth for the tag titles.

[WarChief]

They should bring back the Scrambles for the WWE/WHC matches.

Cena/Show/Punk/Bryan/Kane and Sheamus/Barrett/Orton/Del Rio/Cody

Antonio/Santino rematch

Miz/Rey?

KofiTruth/PTP/Primo&Epico

Layla/?

[543Y2J]

Aug 20, 2012 13:52:33 GMT -5 WarChief said:

They should bring back the Scrambles for the WWE/WHC matches.

Cena/Show/Punk/Bryan/Kane and Sheamus/Barrett/Orton/Del Rio/Cody

This

[wallabylikeyou]

If I may put my "this is totally what they should do" hat on, they'd be better off having a Scramble match for the WHC, instead of yet another Sheamus v Del Rio singles match. You could throw Sheamus, Del Rio, Bryan, Kane and a few other upper midcarders into one match,, have Sheamus face a variety of different opponents, win but knacker himself in the process. Boom, Ziggler comes out and cashes in and the Ziggler/Sheamus feud can begin.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Aug 20, 2012 13:55:36 GMT -5 wallabylikeyou said:

If I may put my "this is totally what they should do" hat on, they'd be better off having a Scramble match for the WHC, instead of yet another Sheamus v Del Rio singles match. You could throw Sheamus, Del Rio, Bryan, Kane and a few other upper midcarders into one match,, have Sheamus face a variety of different opponents, win but knacker himself in the process. Boom, Ziggler comes out and cashes in and the Ziggler/Sheamus feud can begin.

They should do the scramble match for both Titles. Have Ziggler cash in the Briefcase and win the World Title, but since he's a RAW guy, he would be scheduled to compete in the WWE Championship Scramble, with the story of the match now becoming "can he win both?". He wins, and the last shot of Night of Champions is Dolph Ziggler standing tall with both titles. The titles are effectively unified as the WHC is quietly phased out; with main eventers going after the IC Title now, we don't need the WHC as the glorified midcard title that it is.

[Stu]

Aug 20, 2012 5:05:04 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

Well, we only have six titles these days, so there has to be something besides title matches.

Add another match if Ziggler cashes in.