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Genre: Wrestling
Produced By: WWE
Format: Pay-Per-View
Date: July 19 2015
Location: Metro Sports Center, Evansville, Indiana, USA
Attendance: 11,000
For the third year, WWE presented Battleground as one of its PPV events/Network supershows, but this was the first time when the card felt unmissable. It promised the return to Pay-Per-View of "The Beast", Brock Lesnar as he looked to regain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship from Seth Rollins, who would be all alone after Lesnar had taken out J&J Security and Kane in the run-up to the show. Battleground would also feature the third - and presumably feud-ending - collision between John Cena and Kevin Owens, this time with the United States Title at stake. There were also other bouts which sounded promising beforehand, so there was a good amount of anticipation heading into Battleground 2015.
Before the main show, we had the Kick-Off match between King Barrett and R-Truth in the culmination of a fun yet daft storyline. Barrett became King Of The Ring fairly by all accounts, yet at some point Truth decided in his somewhat not-all-together state that he was the true King, at one point wearing a deliberately poor crown and holding an intentionally weak sceptre. Barrett's recent win over Truth on Raw seemed to end this rivalry, but no, the feud carried on. Finally on the Battleground Kick-Off, they finished their quarrel with a fairly entertaining match. Truth's stale character and advanced age, plus his seven years of WWE service, distract one from the fact that he can put on a good showing in the ring, as he did here. The result was never in doubt, though, as Barrett hit Truth with a "royal" Bull Hammer to pick up the pinfall win and prove that he was the real King, which wasn't doubted by anyone besides Truth himself.
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