WWE Night of Champions 2009 did a global total of 259,000 buys (166,000 North American). Last year’s WWE July PPV, Great American Bash 2008, did just 194,000 worldwide (128,000 domestic), making this the first PPV of 2009 to have performed noticeably better in year-to-year comparisons. It also means Night of Champions is the second largest ‘B-show’ PPV of 2009, trailing only No Way Out, which uses the Elimination Chamber gimmick as a draw. Even then, the difference was not tremendous as No Way Out did 272,000 worldwide (174,000 domestic). Night of Champions 2008 also performed well, doing 285,000 buys in total, so it appears that the gimmick of having a card with nothing but title matches on it is a successful project.
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