WWE Night of Champions 2011 (2011)
Night of Champions (2011) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE and presented by WowWee's Light Strike that took place on September 18, 2011 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, New York. It was the fourth annual WWE Night of Champions event and the eleventh in the WWE Vengeance/Night of Champions overall chronology. This is also the first live pay-per-view event to feature the WWE Superstars without the WWE Brand Extension. Eight matches took place at the event, seven of which were broadcast live on pay-per-view. The event featured multiple main events, with Triple H defeating CM Punk, John Cena defeating Alberto Del Rio for the WWE Championship, and Mark Henry defeating Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Championship. The event garnered 161,000 buys, down from 165,000 buys the previous year.
Directors: Kevin Dunn, Vince McMahon.
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Phil Brooks as CM Punk |
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Paul Levesque as Triple H |
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Alberto Del Río as Alberto Del Rio |
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John Cena as John Cena |
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Randy Orton as Randy Orton |
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Mark Henry as Mark Henry |
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Elizabeth Copeland as Beth Phoenix |
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Barbie Blank as Kelly Kelly |
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Nick Nemeth as Dolph Ziggler |
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John Hennigan as John Morrison |
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Donald Hager Jr. as Jack Swagger |
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Kevin Kiley Jr. as Alex Riley |
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Cody Rhodes as Cody Rhodes |
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Ted DiBiase Jr. as Ted DiBiase Jr. |
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Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah as Kofi Kingston |
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Matthew Joseph Korklan as Evan Borne |
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Ron Killings as R-Truth |
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Mike Mizanin as The Miz |
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Jesús Rodriguez as Ricardo Rodriguez (Personal Ring Announcer) |
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Eve Torres as Eve (Ringside) |
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Nattie Neidhart-Wilson as Natalya (Ringside) |
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Vickie Guerrero as Vickie Guerrero (Valet) |
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Kevin Nash as Kevin Nash (Appearance) |
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John Laurinaitis as John Laurinaitis (Raw G.M.) |
| Production | Vince McMahon | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Kevin Dunn | Director |
| Directing | Vince McMahon | Director |