WWE Clash of Champions
WWE Clash of Champions logo
Promotions	WWE
Brands	Raw (2016, 2019–2020) SmackDown (2017, 2019–2020) 205 Live (2019)
First event	2016
Last event	2020
Eventgimmick	Allactive WWE championships available to eachbrand featured at the event were defended

WWE Clash of Champions was aprofessional wrestling event produced byWWE, a Connecticut-basedprofessional wrestling promotion. It was broadcastlive and available only throughpay-per-view (PPV) and thelivestreaming service, theWWE Network. The event was established in 2016 and replacedNight of Champions in the late September slot of WWE's pay-per-view calendar. The event was moved to December in 2017, but returned to the September slot after the event was reinstated in 2019. An event was originally scheduled for 2021 but was canceled and replaced by that year'sExtreme Rules event. Similar to Night of Champions, the theme of the event was that allactive WWE championships available to eachbrand division featured at the event were defended.

To coincide with the brand extension, which was reintroduced in mid-2016, the inaugural Clash of Champions was held exclusively for wrestlers from theRaw brand and was the first Raw-exclusive PPV of the second brand split. The 2017 event was in turnSmackDown-exclusive. Brand-exclusive PPVs were then discontinued followingWrestleMania 34 in 2018, thus the 2019 event featured Raw, SmackDown, and205 Live, while the 2020 event just featured Raw and SmackDown after 205 Live merged underNXT in late 2019.

In total, 11 different WWE championships were defended at Clash of Champions over its four events. Only one of those 11 championships was contested at every event, which was theWWE United States Championship, although for 2019, it was on the event's pre-show.

Clash of Champions was established byWWE in 2016 and it replaced their previously annualpay-per-view,Night of Champions, which had run from 2007 to 2015 (although it was reinstated in 2023). That event had a theme in which every active championship on WWE's main roster during those years were defended; Clash of Champions was established on a similar concept. Theinaugural event was held exclusively for theRaw brand following the reintroduction of thebrand extension in July 2016, where the promotion again split its roster into separate brands where the wrestlers were exclusively assigned to perform. This first event was held on September 25 that year and was the very first Raw-branded event of the second brand extension.^[1] Thefollowing year, the event was held as aSmackDown-branded event and was pushed back to December.^[2]

In 2018, WWE discontinued brand-exclusive pay-per-views followingWrestleMania 34.^[3] A Clash of Champions event was originally announced to be held that year, but it was later canceled and replaced by the all-female event,Evolution.^[4] In 2019, Clash of Champions was reinstated for the September slot. As the event was no longer brand-exclusive, the2019 event featured the Raw, SmackDown, and205 Live brands,^[5] but after 205 Live merged underNXT in October 2019, the2020 event only featured Raw and SmackDown. Due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 event was heldbehind closed doors in WWE'sbio-secure bubble, theWWE ThunderDome, hosted at theAmway Center inOrlando, Florida.^[6]

An event for 2021 was originally scheduled to be held on September 26 at theNationwide Arena inColumbus, Ohio.^[7] However, on July 9, 2021, WWE announced thatExtreme Rules would instead take place on that date at that venue due to WWE reschedulingMoney in the Bank to take place on Extreme Rules' original July date.^[8] Clash of Champions itself was quietly canceled without a new date being scheduled, and no further events have been scheduled since.^[9]

The concept of Clash of Champions was that allactive WWE championships available to each brand division featured at the event were defended. For example, the inaugural event was a Raw-exclusive pay-per-view, as such, only the titles exclusive to Raw at the time were defended.^[1] After brand-exclusive pay-per-views were discontinued in 2018 and after the establishment of two non-brand exclusive championships in 2019, every title available to each brand featured on the event were defended. For example, in 2019, the event featured Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live, so all the championships available to those three brands at the time were defended.^[5]

Although the event was centered around championship matches, non-championship matches occurred at the 2016, 2017, and 2019 events.^[1][2][5] In 2020, every match on the card was a championship match.^[6] With a total of 11 championships at the 2019 event, two titles were defended on the Kickoff pre-show to reduce the actual pay-per-view's runtime.^[5] The 2020 event had one championship match occur on the pre-show.^[6] In total, 11 different WWE championships were defended at the pay-per-view over its four events.

All WWE championships that were defended at Clash of Champions

Year	WWE	Universal	Raw Women's	SmackDown Women's	Intercontinental	United States	Raw Tag Team	SmackDown Tag Team	Women's Tag Team	24/7	Cruiserweight
2016[1]	N	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	N	N	N	Y
2017[2]	Y	N	N	Y	N	Y	N	Y	N	N	N
2019[5]	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
2020[6]	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	N

Notes

• TheWWE United States Championship was the only championship to be defended at every Clash of Champions event. This was due toWWE's annual draft, which was also why theWWE Intercontinental Championship was not featured during the first two years. In the2016 WWE Draft, the United States Championship was made exclusive toRaw and the Intercontinental Championship was made exclusive toSmackDown, thus the United States Championship was featured at the inaugural Clash of Champions event, which was Raw-exclusive.^[1] During the2017 WWE Superstar Shake-up, the two titles switched brands, and thus the United States Championship was also featured on that year's Clash of Champions as it was SmackDown-exclusive.^[2] With the discontinuation of brand-exclusive pay-per-views in 2018,^[3] the United States Championship, as well as most of the other championships, were featured each year since the event was reinstated in 2019 before being canceled in 2021.^[5][6]
• TheWWE Cruiserweight Championship was part of theRaw brand in 2016,^[1] but became exclusive to205 Live in 2018 with 205 Live also being featured on the 2019 event. Soon after the 2019 event, 205 Live was merged under theNXT brand and the title was renamed to NXT Cruiserweight Championship and was no longer featured at Clash of Champions, as NXT ran itsown separate shows.^[5]
• TheWWE Women's Tag Team Championship was introduced in February 2019, available to theRaw andSmackDown brands. It was originally scheduled to be defended at the 2020 event, but just before the event, the defending champions were not medically cleared to compete, thus the title match was canceled.^[6]
• TheWWE 24/7 Championship was introduced in May 2019 with a special rule in that it could be defended any time,anywhere, as long as a WWE referee was present, thus making it available to all of WWE's brands. As a result of this rule, the championship was rarely defended in sanctioned matches. It often changed hands by a sneak attack and a roll up pin, generally backstage at events. This was the case for the 24/7 Championship at Clash of Champions in 2019 and 2020.^[5][6]

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Locations for Clash of Champions venues.

• Clash of Champions Official Website

• WWE Clash of Champions
• Recurring events established in 2016

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