Payback (2013)

Payback
Payback
	Promotional poster featuring Randy Orton
Promotion	WWE
Date	June 16, 2013
City	Rosemont, Illinois
Venue	Allstate Arena
Attendance	14,623
Buy rate	186,000
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The 2013 Payback was the inaugural Payback professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. The event took place on June 16, 2013, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. It replaced WWE's previously well-known event, No Way Out. The concept of the event was the wrestlers seeking payback against their opponents.

Eight professional wrestling matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, John Cena retained the WWE Championship against Ryback in a Three Stages of Hell match. In other prominent matches, Alberto Del Rio defeated Dolph Ziggler to win the World Heavyweight Championship and CM Punk defeated Chris Jericho.

The event received 186,000 buys, down from the previous year's No Way Out pay per view of 194,000.^[3]

^ "WWE Payback '13". profightdb.com. Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
^ PWMania.com Staff (August 1, 2013). "Official Pay-Per-View Buyrates For WrestleMania, Extreme Rules & WWE Payback Released". PWMania. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
^ "WWE Reports 2013 Second Quarter Results" (PDF). WWE (Press release). August 1, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.