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Top 5 WWE World title changes at Night of Champions

The Great OneSeth Rollins is about to make history by becoming the first champion to defend multiple titles at the WWEs annual Night of Champions pay per view where he is scheduled to puthis United States Champions on the lineagainst John Cena in addition to defending his WWE World Heavyweight title against Sting.With Night of Championsbeing unique in the sense that all the titles available in the WWE are featured, this list takes a look at the top fiveinstances of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship changing hands at the PPVthat began under the Vengeance name in 2001.P.S: The list includes the matches from the original Vengeance PPV that began in 2001 till the last Night of Champions PPV in 2014Also, only a WWE World Heavyweight Championship, WWE Championship or World Heavyweight Championship change is considered hence the ECW title was never a primary championship in the WWE.

#5 Mark Henry beats Randy Orton - 2010

Mark Henry’s only world title win came at Night of Champions in 2010

Mark Henry debuted in the then WWF in 1996 and was bounced around the company in a series of embarrassing and ridiculous angles,including the Sexual Chocolate moniker and the brutally pathetic ‘Birth of hand’ segment. It took a decade for Henry to be considered a viable candidate for the World Heavyweight championship, but he was finally redeemed at Night of Champions 2010, 15 years from his debut.

Henry was booked as a monster heel at that time and the WWE bookers were in the process of handing out the less prestigious World Heavyweight championship to long-ignored talent – resulting in title reigns for guys like Christian, Jack Swagger and The Bigshow.

Henry was booked quite strongly in the leadup to the match with the reigning champion Randy Orton, with the introduction of the ‘Hall of Pain’ gimmick and him winning a battle royal to earn the title shot.

The match eventually turned out to be better than anybody expected it to be and Henry dominated Orton to win his only World title with his World’s Strongest Slam finisher(Which fails to convince many a WWE fan to this day). Henry went on to defend his title against Orton at the following Hell in a Cell PPV and would hold on to his title till TLC when he would lose it to The Bigshow in what has to be the slowest match of all time not involving the Great Khali!

Henry was even voted as Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s ‘Most Improved Wrestler’ in 2011, a fine reward for his persistence

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