WWE Battleground: 22 Things You Might Have Missed

Er, 'Taker, what's that on your back?

By Adam Blampied /

Third time's the charm for WWE Battleground. When Battleground debuted in 2013, the first incarnation of the PPV was widely-heralded as a failure. For its Monday Night Raw-level matches, and the woeful non-finish to its main event, the Wrestling Observer voted it the Worst Major Wrestling Show of the Year, and it racked up the second-lowest number of buys for a WWE PPV (pre-Network) in the last 17 years, beating only the infamous December to Dismember. Last year's Battleground wasn't a huge improvement, suffering from a predictable main event, half-cooked Summerslam-lite feuds and the Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins match being pulled at the last minute. Never Forget, Never Forgive. All eyes were on this year's showing to buck the trend and produce a Battleground worth remembering. Well, it certainly did that. The Undertaker returned to finally exact a measure of vengeance on the man who broke The Streak and couldn't stop crowing about it. Of course, this meant that the main event ended in a non-finish (say it, Cole: "Vintage Battleground!") but that can be forgiven in light of WWE pulling out one heck of a shocker - at least for anyone who didn't read about it beforehand in the rumour mill online . With "UNDERTAKER" being the only thing that most fans will remember from last night (aside from a very angry subset of fans scratching 'Why did Owens have to tap?!' into their computer screens with a penknife) a few of the smaller, stranger moments might have escaped your attention. Let's rectify this.

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