Vengeance (2001)

Vengeance
Promotional poster featuring Triple H (who neither competed on the card nor appeared at the event) and his signature sledgehammer.
Promotion	World Wrestling Federation
Date	December 9, 2001
City	San Diego, California
Venue	San Diego Sports Arena
Attendance	11,800
Buy rate	307,000[1]
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The 2001 Vengeance was the inaugural Vengeance professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on December 9, 2001, at the San Diego Sports Arena in San Diego, California. The event replaced the promotion's usual December PPV, Armageddon, for the year 2001; Armageddon was reinstated in 2002 with Vengeance moved up to July. The theme music for the event was performed by Drowning Pool and was called “Sinner”. It was also the only Vengeance event promoted under the WWF name as the promotion was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in May 2002. It would also be the only Vengeance held before the introduction of the brand extension in March 2002.

The main event was a three-match tournament to unify the WWF Championship and the World Championship (formerly the WCW Championship) into what became known as the Undisputed WWF Championship.

This was the final WWF PPV to air on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.