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Battleground (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on October 6, 2013 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, New York. This pay-per-view was announced on the April 8, 2013 ''Raw'' as the new October WWE pay-per-view, a week after Over the Limit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WWE reveal new October pay-per-view )〕 This was the first annual Battleground event. The event received 114,000 buys worldwide, making it the second lowest number (to the ECW December to Dismember) in the last 17 years. The buy rate was down from the last Over the Limit event of 167,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/96-wwe/35529-wwe-financial-notes )〕 == Background == Battleground featured eight professional wrestling matches and one pre-show match that involved wrestlers from pre-existing feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on WWE's primary television programs ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown''. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Live & Televised Entertainment )〕 After defeating Randy Orton at Night of Champions for the WWE Championship, Daniel Bryan was stripped of the title after referee Scott Armstrong admitted to a fast 3-count. However, Triple H did not give Orton the title back since he and his wife Stephanie McMahon believed that Orton's performance at Night of Champions was not what they wanted the face of the WWE to be, stating that they wanted the more ruthless Orton that they feuded with previously. It was then announced that Bryan and Orton would face off once more for the vacant championship. At Night of Champions Rob Van Dam faced the champion Alberto Del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship in which Van Dam won by disqualification. On the September 20 episode of ''SmackDown'', Triple H gave Van Dam a rematch with Del Rio at Battleground for the World Heavyweight Championship. Immediately afterwards, Del Rio would proceed to viciously assault Van Dam backstage. The next week, the match was made as a Hardcore match. On the October 4 episode of ''SmackDown'', Van Dam defeated Fandango via disqualification, but after the match, Van Dam placed a trash can at Fandango's face, and hit him with a ''Van Terminator''. Later that night, Van Dam sent the broken trash can to Del Rio as a "gift" for him. CM Punk began feuding with Paul Heyman in July after Heyman cost him the Money in the Bank ladder match for a WWE Championship contract at Money in the Bank (due to Punk earlier telling Heyman he didn't want him to be his manager). This resulted in Punk fighting and losing to Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam. Punk continued to feud with Heyman and his other client, Curtis Axel resulting in a handicap elimination match at Night of Champions. After Axel was eliminated, Punk handcuffed and beat down Heyman much like Heyman had done to him a couple of weeks prior on ''Raw''. However, Ryback made the save, putting Punk through a table and costing him the match. On the September 23 episode of ''Raw'', it was announced that Punk would face Ryback at Battleground. Also on September 23, Brie Bella pinned AJ Lee during a 10-diva tag team match, leading to Brie receiving a match for AJ's Divas Championship at the pay-per-view. On the September 30 episode of ''Raw'', Cody Rhodes (who had weeks earlier been fired from WWE in part due to perceived insubordination by Triple H) and Goldust (who was lobbying to get his younger brother's job back) were given a non-title tag team match against WWE Tag Team Champions of The Shield (Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) by Triple H and Stephanie McMahon; if the Rhodes brothers had won, they would got their jobs back. If the Shield had won, Goldust and Cody's father Dusty Rhodes would been fired from his position as an NXT trainer, and the Rhodes Family would be banned from WWE. On the July 8 episode of Raw, Brock Lesnar severely injured the neck of Matt Storm, after executing 12 German suplexes and 3 F-5s. Then on the August 9 episode of Smackdown, Matt Storm returned to attack Brock Lesnar. On the August 5 episode of Raw, both Brock and Matt were featured in an all out brawl. Triple H then announced that Brock Lesnar and Matt Storm would fight in a No Disqualification match. The same night, R-Truth defeated Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel in a non-title match. Two nights later on ''Main Event'', it was announced that Truth would get a title match against Axel at Battleground. On the September 30 ''Raw'' and the October 4 ''SmackDown'', Bray Wyatt delivered cryptic messages to Kofi Kingston after Kingston's matches, leading to a match between them at the pay-per-view. Another scheduled match featured Santino Marella teaming with The Great Khali to take on The Real Americans (Antonio Cesaro and Jack Swagger) in a tag team match.〔http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwebattleground/2013/santino-marella-the-great-khali-vs-the-real-americans-26153269〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battleground (2013)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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