Storylines
The main feud heading into Vengeance was between Chris Benoit and Triple H, with the two battling over the World Heavyweight Championship. At the Royal Rumble, Benoit won the Royal Rumble match which earned him a World Heavyweight Championship match against Triple H at WrestleMania XX.[6] At WrestleMania, Benoit defeated Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a Triple Threat match to win the World Heavyweight Championship by forcing Triple H to submit to the Crippler Crossface.[7] At Backlash, Benoit successfully defended the World Heavyweight Championship in another Triple Threat match against Triple H and Michaels, after he forced Michaels to submit to the Sharpshooter.[8] Following Backlash, Benoit had a small feud with Kane, while Michaels and Triple H would finish their feud at Bad Blood. On the June 14 episode of Raw, Triple H demanded another World Heavyweight title shot. It would later be granted to him by Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff to fight against Benoit at Vengeance for the championship, but Bischoff asked for Triple H to defeat his nephew,
Another primary feud heading into the event was between Edge and Randy Orton over the WWE Intercontinental Championship. After Edge came back from his injury, he vowed to take Evolution out. He started it by facing them, together with Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit, in a six men tag team elimination match on the June 14 episode of Raw, which Edge, Jericho and Benoit won. On the June 21 episode of Raw, Edge speared Orton, but then he and Jericho lost to him and Batista in a tag team match later on. On the June 28 episode of Raw, Edge and Jericho defeated Batista and Orton in a rematch. On the July 5 episode of Raw, Edge confronted Evolution, attacking them.
One of the main matches on the undercard was a No Disqualification match between Matt Hardy and Kane. On the May 17 episode of Raw, Kane attacked Hardy, and Lita promised him something for him to stop. On the June 21 episode of Raw, as Hardy proposed to Lita, Kane revealed that Lita was pregnant with his child, and not with Matt's child, as she slept with Kane in order to protect Hardy. On the June 28 episode of Raw, Hardy attacked Kane and was banned from ringside for the main event, which featured Kane challenging Chris Benoit for the World Heavyweight Championship. Kane lost, and then Lita attacked Kane in order to make him chokeslam her and losing the child. Kane, however, refused to do so. On the July 5 episode of Raw, Hardy attacked Kane again, and then was booked in a No Disqualification match against him at Vengeance.
Another one of the main matches on the undercard was a singles match between Chris Jericho and Batista. The feud started on the June 14 episode of Raw where Jericho eliminated Batista from a six man tag team elimination match. On the June 21 episode of Raw, during a tag team match pitting Jericho and Edge against Batista and Randy Orton, Batista knocked Jericho out before he and Orton won the match. On the June 28 episode of Raw, Jericho pinned Batista in a tag team rematch. On the July 5 episode of Raw, Batista cost Jericho a match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Orton.
