WWE Battleground

WWE Battleground, known as NXT Battleground since 2023, is a series of professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming shows made by WWE. The first event took place on October 6, 2013 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, New York. It replaced Over the Limit as the October pay-per-view and was held in July for the next years.^[1] Until 2017, it was a main roster event, with the 2017 event being exclusive to the SmackDown brand. The name is used again since 2023 for the May/June livestreaming event of the developmental brand NXT.^[2]

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#	Event	Date	City	Venue	Main Event	Ref.
1	Battleground (2013)	October 6, 2013	Buffalo, New York	First Niagara Center	Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan for the vacant WWE Championship	^[3]^[4]
2	Battleground (2014)	July 20, 2014	Tampa, Florida	Tampa Bay Times Forum	John Cena (c) vs. Randy Orton vs. Kane vs. Roman Reigns in a fatal four-way match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship	^[5]
3	Battleground (2015)	July 19, 2015	St. Louis, Missouri	Scottrade Center	Seth Rollins (c) vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship	^[6]
4	Battleground (2016)	July 24, 2016	Washington, D.C.	Verizon Center	Dean Ambrose (c) vs. Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins in a triple threat match for the WWE Championship	^[7]
5	Battleground (2017)	July 23, 2017	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Wells Fargo Center	Jinder Mahal (c) vs. Randy Orton in a Punjabi Prison match for the WWE Championship	^[8]
6	NXT Battleground (2023)	May 28, 2023	Lowell, Massachusetts	Tsongas Center	Carmelo Hayes (c) vs. Bron Breakker for the NXT Championship	^[2]
7	NXT Battleground: Las Vegas	June 9, 2024	Enterprise, Nevada	UFC Apex	Trick Williams (c) vs. Ethan Page for the NXT Championship	^[9]
8	NXT Battleground (2025)	May 25, 2025	Tampa, Florida	Yuengling Center	Joe Hendry (c) vs Trick Williams for the TNA World Championship	^[10]
(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match

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