[3] The event featured nine professional wrestling matches with outcomes predetermined by WWE script writers.

The main event at Vengeance featured WWE Champion Brock Lesnar defending the title against Big Show and Kurt Angle in a Triple Threat match.

Two months later at Judgment Day, Lesnar defeated Big Show in a stretcher match to retain the title.

On the May 29 episode of SmackDown!, Big Show teamed up with Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli and defeated The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar.

On the June 19 episode of SmackDown!, the two had a rematch but The World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) attacked Lesnar, making Angle and Mr. America to run for the save, only for Big Show to chokeslam all of them.

On the July 3 episode of SmackDown!, Lesnar and Angle cost Big Show a handicap match against Stephanie McMahon and Zach Gowen.

On the July 17 episode of SmackDown!, Angle defeated The World's Greatest Tag Team and Big Show by help from Zach Gowen.

The hype to this match began on the May 22 episode of SmackDown!, where Gowen, whose left leg was amputated when he was eight years old due to cancer, said that he wanted to wrestle for the WWE.

On the June 5 episode of SmackDown!, McMahon challenged Gowen to get a WWE contract by beating him in an Arm Wrestling contest.

On the July 3 episode of SmackDown!, Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle helped Gowen and Stephanie win the match and earn his contract.

On the July 24 episode of SmackDown!, McMahon attacked Gowen during his match with Lesnar and Angle against Big Show and The World's Greatest Tag Team.

On the July 3 episode of SmackDown!, Undertaker cost Cena his match against Billy Gunn in the WWE United States Championship tournament.

Two weeks later on the June 19 episode of SmackDown!, Sable seduced Gowen while in Stephanie's office but dropped her act and berated him claiming he will never get with a real woman like her.

Once involving a food fight and later a parking lot brawl in which Stephanie ripped Sable's top off exposing her breasts.

After the match, Torrie Wilson who was the special guest ring announcer begin an on-screen relationship with Gunn and became his valet.

On the July 17 episode of SmackDown!, Noble tried to pay Wilson to spend the night with him causing Nidia to walk out on her boyfriend.

This led to Noble losing his match that night to Ultimo Dragon after Torrie and Gunn distracted him.

On the July 26 episode of SmackDown!, Gunn defeated Noble after using a swinging Rock Bottom like finisher.

On the July 10 episode of SmackDown!, Billy Kidman and Rey Mysterio defeated Acolytes Protection Agency, The Basham Brothers and Full Blooded Italians in a fatal four-way match to become the #1 contenders for the WWE Tag Team Championship at Vengeance.

Before the event aired live on pay-per-view, Último Dragón faced Kanyon on Sunday Night Heat, one of WWE's secondary TV programs.

[5] As the pay-per-view event began, Eddie Guerrero faced Chris Benoit for the vacant United States Championship.

Guerrero eventually gained the upper hand when Rhyno interfered in the match while the referee was unconscious, performing a Gore on Benoit.

[6][7] In the third match, Bradshaw, Faarooq, Shannon Moore, Doink the Clown, Brother Love, Nunzio, Matt Hardy, Kanyon, Danny Basham, Doug Basham, the Easter Bunny, Sean O'Haire, John Hennigan, Orlando Jordan, Funaki, Los Conquistadores (Rob Conway and Johnny Jeter), the Brooklyn Brawler, Johnny Stamboli, Chuck Palumbo, Matt Cappotelli, and Spanky fought in the APA Invitational Bar Room Brawl.

During the match, Spanky was put through a table, Sean O'Haire used a pool cue and Brother Love threw Shannon Moore through a mirror.

The World's Greatest Tag Team won after a combination of a powerbomb by Haas and a diving lariat to retain the titles.

The Undertaker was thrown into an exposed turnbuckle and Cena attacked his midsection, bloodying him from the mouth, selling internal injuries, or making them appear realistic.

[6][7] In the main event, Brock Lesnar, Kurt Angle and Big Show fought in a Triple Threat Match for the WWE Championship.

Big Show returned to the ring and chokeslammed Lesnar and Angle simultaneously, and covered both men but couldn't score a pinfall.