SummerSlam (2024)
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| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown | ||
| Date | August 3, 2024 | ||
| City | Cleveland, Ohio | ||
| Venue | Cleveland Browns Stadium | ||
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The 2024 SummerSlam, also promoted as SummerSlam: Cleveland, is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It will be the 37th annual SummerSlam and is scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will be the second SummerSlam event to emanate from Cleveland, after the 1996 event, which was held at the Gund Arena (now Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse).
Production
Background
SummerSlam is an annual professional wrestling event traditionally held in August by WWE since 1988. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer",[1] it is one of the promotion's five biggest events of the year, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, and Money in the Bank, referred to as the "Big Five".[2][3] Out of the five, it is considered WWE's second biggest event of the year behind WrestleMania.[4][5]
Announced on March 12, 2024, the 37th SummerSlam is scheduled to be held on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. As part of SummerSlam week, the August 2 episode of Friday Night SmackDown will be held at the nearby Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse with a number of events to be held in Cleveland during the week prior to and after SummerSlam.[6] This will subsequently be the second SummerSlam held in Cleveland, after the 1996 event, which was held at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse when the venue was still known as the Gund Arena.[7]
Broadcast outlets
SummerSlam will be broadcast live on traditional pay-per-view worldwide and will also livestream on Peacock in the United States, Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia, Disney+ in the Philippines, Binge in Australia, Abema in Japan, SonyLIV in India, and the WWE Network in all other countries. In January 2024, WWE announced that all of the WWE Network content would move to Netflix in all countries where the former is still available as a standalone service starting in January 2025, making the 2024 event the final SummerSlam to livestream on the WWE Network.[8]
Storylines
The card will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television programs, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[9][10]
On May 23, 2024, during an appearance at the WWE Experience attraction in Saudi Arabia, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque announced that the winners of both the King of the Ring and Queen of the Ring tournaments would receive a match for the world championship of their respective brand at SummerSlam.[11] At King and Queen of the Ring, Raw's Gunther and SmackDown's Nia Jax won the respective tournaments, thus earning matches for the World Heavyweight Championship and WWE Women's Championship, respectively.[12]
Matches
| No. | Matches* | Stipulations | ||||
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| 1 | Damian Priest (c) vs. Gunther | Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship[11] | ||||
| 2 | Bayley (c) vs. Nia Jax | Singles match for the WWE Women's Championship[11] | ||||
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References
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- ^ Paddock, Matty (August 21, 2017). "WWE SummerSlam results: Brock Lesnar and Jinder Mahal survive as Finn Balor defeats Bray Wyatt". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
- ^ Crosby, Jack (August 19, 2018). "WWE SummerSlam 2018 matches, card, location, date, start time, predictions PPV rumors". CBSSports. Archived from the original on August 8, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ Lambert, Jeremy (March 12, 2024). "WWE SummerSlam To Take Place In Cleveland On August 3". Fightful. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ "WWF SummerSlam 1996 « Events Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database". www.cagematch.net. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
- ^ Lowson, Thomas (January 25, 2024). "End of the WWE Network: Streaming Service to Be Absorbed By Netflix Next Year (Report)". SE Scoops. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
- ^ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ^ "Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
- ^ a b c Defelice, Robert (May 23, 2024). "Winners Of WWE King And Queen Of The Ring Tournaments Will Get World Title Bouts At WWE SummerSlam". Fightful. Retrieved May 23, 2024.
- ^ Powell, Jason (May 25, 2024). "WWE King and Queen of the Ring results: Powell's live review of Cody Rhodes vs. Logan Paul for the WWE Title, Gunther vs. Randy Orton in the KOTR finals, Nia Jax vs. Lyra Valkyria in the QOTR finals". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved May 25, 2024.