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Promotional poster featuring Bobby Lashley holding the ECW World Championship (left), Edge holding the World Heavyweight Championship (center) and John Cena holding the WWE Championship (right)
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Tagline(s) | Night of Champions | |||
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"Gone" by Fuel | |||
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Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | |||
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Sponsor(s) | Raw Attitude Energy | |||
Date | June 24, 2007 | |||
Attendance | 15,000 | |||
Venue | Toyota Center | |||
City | Houston, Texas | |||
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Vengeance: Night of Champions was the seventh annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) within its Vengeance/Night of Champions chronology. It featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown!, and ECW brands. The event was sponsored by RAW Attitude Energy Drink and took place on June 24, 2007, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Every match on the card was contested for a championship; two were won and seven were retained. This event was notable for being on the weekend of the Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide case. Benoit, who was originally booked to face CM Punk for the vacant ECW World Championship, legitimately no-showed.
The main event featured the Raw brand. It saw John Cena defend the WWE Championship against Mick Foley, Bobby Lashley, Randy Orton, and King Booker. Cena won the match and retained the WWE Championship after pinning Foley following an FU. The featured match from the SmackDown brand was a "Last Chance match" for the World Heavyweight Championship between Edge and Batista, which Edge won by countout. The primary match from the ECW brand was CM Punk versus Johnny Nitro for the vacant ECW World Championship, which Nitro won by pinfall after performing a corkscrew neckbreaker from the middle rope. The event was supposed to use the Vengeance name, but on the June 11th edition of Raw, it was announced that the event would now change its name to "Vengeance: Night of Champions" where every active WWE title would be defended.