Battleground (2014)

The 2014 Battleground was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the second annual Battleground and took place on July 20, 2014, at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. The inaugural 2013 event was held in October as Battleground was originally intended to be an annual October event before it was moved up to July for 2014. Nine matches were contested at the event, including two on the Kickoff pre-show. The main event saw John Cena defeat Randy Orton, Kane, and Roman Reigns in a fatal four-way match to retain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. In another prominent match, AJ Lee defeated Paige to retain the WWE Divas Championship. This was the first Battleground event to livestream on the WWE Network, which launched in February. The event received 99,000 pay-per-view buys (excluding WWE Network views), slightly down on the previous year's 114,000 buys. This was WWE's last PPV and livestreaming event to incorporate the WWE scratch logo, as the following month, WWE rebranded and began using the logo that was originally used for the WWE Network.