10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2013

2. Night Of Champions Resulted In Angry Refunds

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When Daniel Bryan's Night Of Champions victory over Randy Orton was overturned on Monday Night Raw due to the screwy nature of the finish, it wasn't just yet more angry chants that WWE received from the increasingly frustrated complaints.

The audience wanted their f*cking money back. And plenty of them got it.

PWInsider reported the news following one of their readers getting in touch to confirm that a call to the cable company earned him a full refund due to WWE flipping the script the next night. According to a staffer at the company, that fan wasn't alone.

It's astonishing similar things didn't occur in the time between this event and February's pay-per-view slaughtering Network launch. WWE invalidate their own stipulations all the time, but this was one of the only occasions in resulted in customers being able to reclaim what they'd effectively felt had been stolen. No wonder Vince McMahon was so keen to kill it.

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