Extreme Rules (2013)

The 2013 Extreme Rules was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It was the fifth annual Extreme Rules event and took place on May 19, 2013, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The theme of the event was that it featured various hardcore-based matches. Eight matches took place on the event's card and one Pre-Show match was livestreamed on YouTube. Five of the main card's matches were contested under a hardcore stipulation. In the main event, Brock Lesnar defeated Triple H in a Steel Cage match. In other prominent matches, WWE Champion John Cena and Ryback fought to a no contest in a Last Man Standing match, Dean Ambrose defeated Kofi Kingston to capture the WWE United States Championship, The Shield (Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) defeated Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan) in a tornado tag team match to win their first WWE Tag Team Championship, and Randy Orton defeated Big Show in an Extreme Rules match. The 2013 event's scheduling replaced Over the Limit as the year's May PPV. Extreme Rules 2013 received 231,000 pay-per-view buys, down from previous year's event of 263,000. This was the final Extreme Rules event to broadcast exclusively via traditional PPV outlets due to the launch of the WWE Network streaming service in February 2014. It was also the last to feature the previous version of the World Heavyweight Championship, which was unified with the WWE Championship in December.