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#3 Vengeance: Night Of Champions (June 2007)

WWE Vengeance 2007
Vengeance: Night Of Champions

When wrestling fans think of the weekend of June 24, 2007, the unforgivable actions of Chris Benoit's come to mind. These actions were so horrific that everything else about that weekend in the wrestling world took a major backseat. One of those details was that a world title match on WWE's Vengeance card was forced to be changed on the fly.

At Vengeance: Night Of Champions, Chris Benoit was booked to wrestle CM Punk for the vacant ECW Championship. When Benoit no-showed the pay-per-view, WWE scrambled to salvage the ECW title match.

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In Benoit's place, the company inserted Johnny Nitro, also known as John Morrison, who defeated Punk to win the ECW Championship. It defied Vince McMahon's typical booking pattern that if a talent no-shows or a match has to be changed for any reason with little-to-no notice, the babyface goes over 99% of the time. This was the example of that 1%.

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