10 Things You Didn’t Know About WWE Night Of Champions
2. Why It's Actually Called "Night Of Champions"
It took Triple H 16 years after the closure of WCW and total autonomy on his own passion project to feature WarGames onto a WWE broadcast.
Sneaking it on as the titular main event of an NXT TakeOver in November 2017, it was the end of one of Paul Levesque's man long games. 'The King Of Kings' had only managed to force a compromise out of Vince McMahon when he pitched - less than two years after WCW folded - to keep the double cage extravaganza alive at Survivor Series 2002. Elimination Chamber was the outcome, so allergic was McMahon to any of World Championship Wrestling's ideas, concepts and names.
That same bugbear of the boss perhaps explains why WWE has never fully committed to the TBS staple "Clash Of The Champions" as the name of this semi-regular supercard. 2007's Vengeance was subtitled "Night Of Champions", and even four iterations of the show between 2016 and 2020 were called "Clash Of Champions", as if removing the definite article was as important to McMahon as adding it before SummerSlam was to Bret Hart.
He was understandably too busy on March 26th 2001 to miss a certain subtitle...