WWE Night of Champions 2013 - Five Talking Points

After a successful showing at SummerSlam, WWE was keen on repeating the success at Night of Champions. Overall, one has to say that the show was successful at being confusing than convincing, with a finish that is sure to create a lot of criticism if not handled properly.

Though the show can boast of well contested matches that managed to look interesting in parts, by and large the event wasn’t even close to SummerSlam in terms of storytelling and booking. The show was somehow booked just to promote RAW on Monday.

Nevertheless, the show had some standout moments that garnered attention and have emerged as the talking points of the show. Let us now look at the top 5 moments or happenings of the show that managed to standout from the others.

AJ retains the title

AJ Lee

The Divas division has finally managed to become relevant. After AJ’s pipebomb things have only become better as all the Divas have suddenly come out with energy that was lacking all this while. AJ and Natalya were the pick of the divas who managed to put on a great match. The double sharpshooter from Natalya showed just why she is a member of the Hart family.

Plus Naomi had a lot of energy for her first PPV match and Bella managed to do her bit, though no one expected much from her. WWE is surely giving the divas a lot of importance now and hopefully, we will see the return of the women’s title soon.

Ziggler goes down fighting

Dolph Ziggler

Dolph Ziggler is one of those wrestlers who puts up a great match against anybody and with a wrestler of Dean Ambrose’s ability, it only could have been better. Both of them put on a great match that surely would have been the best match of the night if only the two had a storyline between them. Without a feud this match looked almost meaningless despite great work by the two wrestlers.

Let us expect both these wrestlers to carry on this feud for another PPV or two and until then expect great wrestling between them.

Alberto Del Rio is still the World Heavyweight Champion

Alberto Del Rio

You know WWE writers are clueless about a feud when they end a PPV title match in a DQ and the same applies to ADR vs RVD match. Del Rio is one of the most uninteresting champions on the roster right now and taking the title off him was a necessity. Yet we saw WWE doing the same thing they did with Christian and instead gave RVD a meaningless victory.

Taking the title off Del Rio could have given him an opportunity to rebuild his character to being less boring. It has become difficult to see Del Rio as the champion on screen and giving the title to RVD could have brought about some freshness to the title scenario.

Paul Heyman ready to feed Ryback more

Ryback attacking CM Punk

A new Paul Heyman guy was on the cards even before the PPV started and this became pretty obvious after Heyman started screaming that he believed in Axel during the match. But the surprise came in the form of Ryback, who sent Punk through the table with a spinebuster. Ryback then carried Heyman backstage as the crowd was busy chanting ‘Goldberg’.

The question that remains is whether Ryback is Heyman’s newest client or is Ryback just a stop gap filler until Brock Lesnar makes his return? Anyway, the good thing is we won’t have Axel fighting alongside Heyman anymore. Though Axel was impressive against Punk, his Intercontinental title was slowly losing meaning during the bout. WWE made the right decision by taking him out of this feud and putting Ryback in, who is undergoing a major character reconstruction.

Daniel Bryan wins WWE title

Daniel Bryan

Daniel Bryan winning the title was a surprise as most WWE pundits predicted Orton to walk out victorious. Frankly, that title change brought a relieving end to the PPV that otherwise didn’t match the standards WWE set up for PPVs this year.

Bryan’s win was pretty pre-mature in the storyline and nevertheless, there was an expected development that would deny him the Championship. Bryan won the match courtesy of a fast count from referee Scott Armstrong, though it wasn’t necessary.

Now that Bryan’s title has been stripped on RAW, we can expect Bryan’s fight to the top of the ladder as Triple H places roadblocks for him to overcome.