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The 2014 Payback was a
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(PPV) and
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event produced by
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. It was the second annual Payback and took place on June 1, 2014, at the Allstate Arena in the
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suburb of Rosemont,
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for the second consecutive year. This was the first Payback event to livestream on the
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, which launched in February. The theme of the event was wrestlers seeking payback against their opponents. Nine matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, The Shield ( Dean Ambrose,
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, and
Roman Reigns Leati Joseph Anoaʻi ( ; born May 25, 1985), better known by his ring name Roman Reigns, is an American professional wrestler and former gridiron football, football player. As a wrestler, he has been signed to WWE , where he performs on the Sm ...
) defeated
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(
Triple H Paul Michael Levesque (; born July 27, 1969), also known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive and former professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as its chief content officer. Levesque began his wres ...
,
Randy Orton Randal Keith Orton (born April 1, 1980) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE since 2000, where he performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown brand. Orton is widely regarded as one of t ...
, and
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) in a
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six-man tag team elimination match. In other prominent matches,
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defeated
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in a Last Man Standing match and Bad News Barrett defeated
Rob Van Dam Robert Szatkowski (born December 18, 1970) better known by his ring name Rob Van Dam (frequently abbreviated to RVD) is an American professional wrestler. Known for his unique ring style—which includes his variety of kicks, acrobatic movemen ...
to retain the
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. This was the first WWE pay-per-view since
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in December 2006 not to feature a men's world championship match on the card. Payback drew 67,000 buys (excluding WWE Network views), down from previous year's 186,000 buys.


Production


Background

In 2013,
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established a new
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(PPV) titled Payback, which replaced their previously well-known event, No Way Out. The concept of the event was the wrestlers seeking payback against their opponents. The 2014 Payback was subsequently the second Payback, thus establishing Payback as an annual event. It took place on June 1, 2014, at the Allstate Arena in the
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suburb of Rosemont,
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for the second consecutive year. In addition to traditional pay-per-view, the event was available through WWE's
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service, the
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, which launched in February, which made it the first Payback to air on the WWE Network.


Storylines

The event comprised nine matches, including one on the Kickoff pre-show, that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, '' Raw'' and '' SmackDown''. The main feud heading into the event was between
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(
Triple H Paul Michael Levesque (; born July 27, 1969), also known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive and former professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as its chief content officer. Levesque began his wres ...
,
Randy Orton Randal Keith Orton (born April 1, 1980) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE since 2000, where he performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown brand. Orton is widely regarded as one of t ...
, and
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) and The Shield ( Dean Ambrose,
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, and
Roman Reigns Leati Joseph Anoaʻi ( ; born May 25, 1985), better known by his ring name Roman Reigns, is an American professional wrestler and former gridiron football, football player. As a wrestler, he has been signed to WWE , where he performs on the Sm ...
). After losing to them at Extreme Rules, Evolution continued to feud with The Shield. The following night on ''Raw'', Triple H forced Ambrose to defend his United States Championship in a 20-man
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, which was won by
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. The Shield then fought The Wyatt Family (
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,
Luke Harper Jonathan Huber (December 16, 1979 – December 26, 2020) was an American professional wrestler known as Brodie Lee. Huber performed under the ring name Luke Harper in WWE from 2012 to 2019, and as Mr. Brodie Lee in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) ...
, and Erick Rowan) later in the night; just as things turned in The Shield's favor, Evolution came out and distracted The Shield, allowing Wyatt to pick up the win for the Wyatt Family by pinning Reigns. Evolution then assaulted The Shield and hit Reigns with The Shield's signature triple power bomb. The following week, The Shield challenged Evolution to a rematch at Payback, which Evolution accepted. It was announced the following week on ''Raw'' that the match at Payback would be a
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six-man elimination tag team match. Since costing him title matches at the
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and
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, The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, and Erick Rowan) have been feuding with
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. This led to several matches at subsequent events, with Cena defeating Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania XXX in a singles match and Wyatt winning a
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at Extreme Rules via escaping from the cage. On the May 12 episode of ''Raw'', Wyatt challenged Cena to a Last Man Standing match, which was accepted by Cena on the May 16 episode of ''SmackDown''. WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan announced on May 12 that he would have undergo neck surgery later that week. Because of this,
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suggested that Daniel Bryan would have to surrender the title if he cannot return to action by the pay-per-view where he was originally scheduled to defend against Kane. While his surgery was successful, it was still unknown if Bryan could compete for the title, so McMahon gave him another week to surrender the title. On the May 26 episode of ''Raw'', Bryan stated that while he found no shame in dropping the title due to injury, he did not want to give it to McMahon after everything he had been through. Upset at this, she gave Bryan one more chance to give her the title saying that if he did not surrender the title to her by the pay-per-view, she would fire his wife Brie Bella.
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and Hornswoggle would continue their feud. They previously fought at Extreme Rules in the first ever WeeLC match, which saw Torito defeat Hornswoggle. Hornswoggle put forth a Mask vs. Hair match, wagering his hair against El Torito's mask, which would take place on the Kickoff pre-show. Paige defended her WWE Divas Championship against Alicia Fox at Payback. The two divas faced each other on the May 12 episode of ''Raw'', which Paige won, and on the May 19 episode of ''Raw'', which Fox won. Sheamus defended his United States Championship against Cesaro at Payback. The two wrestlers fought to a double countout on the May 13 episode of ''
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''. On the May 19 episode of ''Raw'', Cesaro defeated Sheamus in a non-title rematch due to a distraction from Cesaro's manager
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, setting up the title match at the pay-per-view. On the May 19 episode of ''Raw'', there were three beat the clock challenge matches to determine a new number one contender to face Bad News Barrett for the
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at Payback. The matches were Big E vs. Ryback,
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vs. Alberto Del Rio, and Dolph Ziggler vs.
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. Big E beat Ryback to set a time of 5:02; Van Dam defeated Del Rio and set a new time of 4:15, and Ziggler and Henry wrestled to a time limit draw. This gave Van Dam the win and the title shot. On the May 26 episode of ''Raw'', Zack Ryder celebrated
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by coming out with an American flag before facing Rusev. Rusev defeated Ryder via submission, but refused to let go after the bell rang until Big E came in, eventually knocking Rusev out of the ring. This set up a match between both men at Payback.


Event


Pre-show

During the Payback Kickoff pre-show, El Torito defeated Hornswoggle in a Mask vs. Hair match which was followed by El Torito shaving the head of Hornswoggle in a barber's chair at ringside.


Preliminary matches

The actual pay-per-view opened with Sheamus defending the United States Championship against Cesaro (accompanied by Paul Heyman). In the end, Cesaro performed a Cesaro Swing on Sheamus. As Cesaro went to pin Sheamus, Sheamus pinned Cesaro with a Small Package to retain the title. Next, Cody Rhodes and Goldust faced Ryback and Curtis Axel. The match ended when
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attempted a Beautiful Disaster Kick on Ryback but Ryback caught Rhodes and executed Shellshocked on Rhodes for the win the match. After the match, Rhodes told Goldust that because they lost a lot of matches together recently, he deserved a better partner and walked out on him. After that, Rusev (accompanied by Lana) wrestled Big E. Rusev forced Big E to submit to The Accolade to win the match. In the fourth match,
Kofi Kingston Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah (born August 14, 1981) is a Ghanaian-born American professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Kofi ...
faced Bo Dallas. The match was ruled a no-contest after Kane came down to the ring and attacked Kingston with a Chokeslam and a Tombstone Piledriver. Later, Bad News Barrett defended the Intercontinental Championship against Rob Van Dam. The end came when Van Dam attempted a Split Legged Moonsault but Barrett countered the move by raising his knees. Barrett executed a Bull Hammer to retain the title. Next was an in-ring segment involving WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan and Stephanie McMahon about Bryan surrendering the championship or his wife Brie Bella would be fired. As Bryan was about to surrender the title, Brie announced that she had quit instead. After McMahon laughed at her, Brie slapped McMahon. In the next match, John Cena faced Bray Wyatt (accompanied by Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) in a Last Man Standing match. Before the match, Tag Team Champions The Usos ( Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) came out to support Cena and counteract Harper and Rowan of The Wyatt Family. During the match, both men executed their respective finishing moves - Wyatt a Sister Abigail and Cena an Attitude Adjustment - but in both cases, the opponent did not stay down. After Rowan attacked Cena, Harper and Rowan fought with The Usos. After both men attacked the other with a chair, Wyatt performed a Drop Suplex through a table on Cena but Cena beat the count. Cena leapt off the apron but Wyatt caught Cena and executed Sister Abigail, with Cena managing to stand. Cena delivered an Attitude Adjustment to Wyatt but Harper and Rowan came back, attacked Cena and helped Wyatt stand. The Usos came back, attacking Harper and Rowan. Jey put Rowan through a table with a Running Hip Attack, which was followed by Harper putting Jimmy through two tables with a Superplex. Wyatt executed a Running Crossbody through the barricade on Cena, who managed to stand. In the end, Cena executed an Attitude Adjustment through an equipment crate on Wyatt and pushed another crate onto the crate which Wyatt was in. As Wyatt could not stand, Cena won the match. The match would later be named Match of the Year by
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. In the penultimate match, Paige defended the WWE Divas Championship against Alicia Fox. Paige forced Fox to submit to the PTO to retain the title.


Main event

In the main event, The Shield (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, and Dean Ambrose) faced Evolution in a no holds barred six-man tag team elimination match. At the start, Rollins fought with Triple H, Ambrose fought with Orton, and Reigns fought with Batista. Eventually, the two teams fought in the ring. The match descended into a brawl throughout the arena, where Orton attacked Ambrose and Triple H hit Rollins with a TV monitor. Evolution performed a Triple Powerbomb through a broadcast table on Reigns. Ambrose and Rollins fought with Evolution in the entrance way, where Orton executed a Belly-to-Back Suplex through a chair on Ambrose and Triple H executed a Pedigree on Rollins onto a chair. Back in the ring, Batista executed a Spinebuster on Reigns, Evolution hit Reigns with kendo sticks whilst he was incapacitated on the steel steps. Reigns executed a Superman Punch on Orton, but Triple H hit Reigns with a chair. Evolution fought with The Shield in the entrance way again, where Rollins leapt off the TitanTron onto Evolution. Back in the ring, Rollins attempted a diving knee, Batista countered with a mid-air spear. When he was just about to cover Rollins, Reigns executed a spear on Batista, allowing Rollins to eliminate him. Ambrose hit Orton after Orton attempted a second-rope DDT on Reigns with a chair and executed Dirty Deeds onto the chair to eliminate him. Triple H hit a low blow on Ambrose and attempted a Pedigree but Reigns executed a Superman Punch on Triple H. Batista executed a Spear on Reigns and Orton passed Triple H his sledgehammer. Triple H hit Ambrose with the sledgehammer and attempted to hit Reigns with the sledgehammer but Rollins executed a springboard high knee on Triple H. Reigns executed a spear on Triple H to eliminate him and win the match for The Shield with a clean sweep.


Aftermath

On the June 2 episode of ''Raw'', Stephanie McMahon announced that Daniel Bryan would defend his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Kane in a stretcher match if he was able to compete. If Bryan was not able to compete, he would be stripped of the title, and the
Money in the Bank ladder match The Money in the Bank ladder match is a multi-person ladder match held by the professional wrestling promotion WWE. First performed at WWE's annual WrestleMania event beginning in 2005, a separate WWE Money in the Bank, Money in the Bank event w ...
at the titular pay-per-view would be for the vacated WWE World Heavyweight Championship. However, Bryan was officially stripped of the title on the June 9 episode of ''Raw''. While Evolution was in the ring addressing that their loss to The Shield was not the end of their feud, Batista interrupted Triple H, demanding the one-on-one WWE World Heavyweight Championship match which he earned at the Royal Rumble. After Triple H explained that Batista cannot have a title shot that night due to Bryan's injury, Batista announced his resignation and left the ring. Later that night, Triple H and Randy Orton confronted The Shield, with Triple H announcing that their loss at Payback was "Plan A", and that he had a "Plan B". Without warning, Seth Rollins attacked Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns with a steel chair, turning his back on The Shield and aligning himself with The Authority. Bo Dallas took on Kofi Kingston in a rematch. Dallas ended up defeating Kingston continuing his undefeated streak. The next night on ''Raw'', Cody Rhodes choose Sin Cara as the new partner for Goldust and the two took on Curtis Axel and Ryback. Sin Cara and Goldust ended up losing and Rhodes, who was watching the match backstage, had a disappointed look on his face. He then proceeded to choose R-Truth next week on ''Raw'' and finally as a new persona called Stardust. On June 27, a rematch pitting Gold and Stardust against Ryback and Axel was scheduled for Money in the Bank. Big E and Rusev also continued their feud, leading to a rematch at Money in the Bank.


Results


No Holds Barred six-man elimination tag team match


References


External links


Payback website
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