In 2012, WWE reinstated their No Way Out pay-per-view (PPV), which had previously ran annually from 1999 to 2009. The following year, however, No Way Out was canceled and replaced by a new event titled Payback. The inaugural Payback event was held on June 16, 2013 at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. Payback returned the following year, becoming an annual PPV for WWE until the 2017 event, which was the final Payback until it was reinstated in 2020.