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WrestleMania was one of the first and most successful pay per view events in the world. WrestleMania XXVIII (pictured) is the highest grossing PPV event in professional wrestling history.

This article lists pay-per-view events promoted by WWE. WWE typically holds a pay-per-view event each month. WrestleMania is shared with the months of March/April, if held in April, then no pay-per-view is produced in March. With the exception of WrestleMania, each event is scheduled for three hours, although they sometimes run short of that time. Pay-per-view events are a significant part of the revenue stream for WWE.[1][2]

History

Current pay-per-view events
Month Event
January Royal Rumble
February Elimination Chamber
Late March / Early April WrestleMania
May Extreme Rules
June WWE Over the Limit
July Money in the Bank
August SummerSlam
September Night of Champions
October Hell in a Cell
November Survivor Series
December TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs

The first WWE, then known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), pay-per-view was November 1985's The Wrestling Classic, a tournament held at the Rosemont Horizon near Chicago.[3] The first WrestleMania event, in March of the same year, was available on pay-per-view in some markets.[4] The first two WrestleManias were financial successes, and after WrestleMania III became a popular event in wrestling history, the WWF then decided to expand their pay-per-view offerings

The first Survivor Series event occurred on November 29, 1987, scheduled to conflict with NWA's Starrcade. The WWF informed cable companies that if they chose to carry Starrcade, they would not be allowed to carry future WWF events [citation needed]. The vast majority of companies showed Survivor Series (only three opted to remain loyal to their contract with the NWA), and the resulting financial blow to Starrcade was in many ways the beginning of the end for Jim Crockett Promotions.[5] The debut of the Royal Rumble in January 1988 was actually shown on the USA Network, where it drew the highest rating to that time in the network's history. The event became a pay-per-view the following year.[6]

The first SummerSlam was held in Madison Square Garden in August 1988.[7] The Royal Rumble in January, WrestleMania in March or April, SummerSlam in August, and Survivor Series in November – were the only annual pay-per-view offerings until 1993, when the WWF started the King of the Ring in June. In May 1995, the WWF began offering pay-per-views in the months that did not already have one. Initially, the WWF used the In Your House brand, but beginning in 1996 began using other names to complement the In Your House name (such as Bad Blood and No Way Out), to avoid confusion. Until recently, World Wrestling Entertainment had a once-a-month pay-per-view schedule, which they had from the late 1990s until 2003 totaling twelve a year. In 2004 they offered a 13th pay-per-view, and in 2005 they offered 14 PPVs, 2006 had 16, and 2007 had 15. In 2008, New Year's Revolution was dropped from the lineup, bringing the number of pay-per-views back to 14. In 2010, WWE moved its Extreme Rules event from June to replace Backlash, leaving only one pay-per-view to be held in June and thus bringing back the yearly number of pay-per-views to 13. In 2012 Vengeance was dropped of the line up as the second event of October bringing the number down to 12 events in the year, one per month. The pay-per-view events in the United States are offered by In Demand, Dish Network or DirecTV. In Canada, WWE pay-per-views are shown on Viewer's Choice, and can be seen in movie theatres in HD, through selected locations of the Cineplex Entertainment and Empire Theatres chains.

WWE ran two yearly pay-per-views which were exclusive to the UK up to 2003, but after the brand extension occurred they were removed in favor of international tours, with a TV taping included. Currently, WWE has the WrestleMania Revenge tour, after WrestleMania, at the beginning of the year and the Survivor Series tour, at the end of the year, in the UK. Each includes a Raw and SmackDown taping. In Australia, WWE's pay-per-views are shown on Main Event. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, some pay-per-views are shown on Sky Sports 3 and others on Sky Sports Box Office. Starting with the 2008 Royal Rumble, all WWE pay-per-views are broadcast in North America in High-definition, with similar HD broadcasts starting in the United Kingdom and Ireland from WrestleMania XXIV.

Beginning with WrestleMania XXVIII, untelevised dark matches were replaced with preshow matches that were shown on WWE.com, YouTube, and WWE's Facebook page.

Upcoming pay-per-view schedule

Date Event Venue City Ref.
October 28, 2012 Hell in a Cell Philips Arena Atlanta, Georgia [8]
November 18, 2012 Survivor Series Bankers Life Fieldhouse Indianapolis, Indiana [9]
December 16, 2012 TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs Barclays Center Brooklyn, New York [10]
January 27, 2013 Royal Rumble US Airways Center Phoenix, Arizona [11]
February 17, 2013 Elimination Chamber New Orleans Arena New Orleans, Louisiana [12]
April 7, 2013 WrestleMania XXIX MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, New Jersey [13][14]
May 19, 2013 Extreme Rules Scottrade Center St. Louis, Missouri [15]
June 16, 2013 TBA TBA TBA [16]
July 14, 2013 Money in the Bank TBA TBA [17]
August 18, 2013 SummerSlam Staples Center Los Angeles, California [18]
September 15, 2013 Night of Champions TBA TBA [19]
October 6, 2013 Over the Limit TBA TBA [20]
October 27, 2013 Hell in a Cell TBA TBA [21]
November 24, 2013 Survivor Series TBA TBA [22]
December 15, 2013 TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs TBA TBA [23]

Brand extension

In June 2003, WWE announced the continuation of its brand extension and made its pay-per-view events each exclusive to a particular brand (Raw, SmackDown!, ECW (2006)). The only exceptions to the pay-per-view split were the "Big Four" events (Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series) which remained inclusive of all WWE brands. The pay-per-view split allowed WWE to eventually add more events to their pay-per-view line-up. From late 2005, pay-per-views would start to frequently have inter-branded matches. In March 2007, it was announced that pay-per-view events would go back to the old format, where the events would all be tri-branded, with the last uni-branded event being No Way Out and the first tri-branded event being Backlash (after WrestleMania 23).[24] The brand-exclusive events were:

Pay-per-view Brand Years Notes
New Year's Revolution Raw 2005–2007
Backlash Raw 2004–2006
Bad Blood Raw 2003–2004
Vengeance Raw 2004–2006 In 2003, Vengeance was a SmackDown!-exclusive event. Tribanded from 2007.
Unforgiven Raw 2003–2008
Cyber Sunday/Taboo Tuesday Raw 2004–2008 From 2004–2005, the event was promoted under the name Taboo Tuesday.[25][26][27]
Armageddon SmackDown! 2004–2006 In 2003, Armageddon was a Raw-exclusive event.[28]
No Way Out SmackDown! 2004–2007 In 2012, No Way Out made a ppv return to the WWE.
Judgment Day SmackDown! 2004–2006
The Great American Bash SmackDown! 2004–2006
No Mercy SmackDown! 2003–2008
December to Dismember ECW 2006 This was the only ECW exclusive pay-per-view.[29]

Former pay-per-view events

Pay-per-view Year (s) Active Notes
The Wrestling Classic 1985
This Tuesday in Texas 1991
King of the Ring 1993–2002
In Your House 1995–1999
Bad Blood 1997, 2003–2004
Over the Edge 1998–1999 Discontinued after the death of Owen Hart at the 1999 event.
Fully Loaded 1998–2000 Replaced by Invasion in 2001, and permanently discontinued when replaced by Vengeance in 2002.
Invasion 2001
One Night Stand 2005–2008
December to Dismember 2006
New Year's Revolution 2005–2007 This pay-per-view was removed because WWE decided to reduce the number of pay-per-views per year.
Unforgiven 1998–2008
No Mercy 1999–2008
Cyber Sunday/Taboo Tuesday 2004–2008
Backlash 1999–2009
Judgment Day 1998, 2000–2009
The Bash The Great American Bash (2004–2008),
The Bash (2009)
Breaking Point 2009
Fatal 4-Way 2010 was set to make a return as a 2012 PPV but was scrapped by WWE.
Bragging Rights 2009-2010 was set to make a return as a 2012 PPV but was scrapped by WWE.
Capitol Punishment 2011 replaced by No Way Out in 2012.
Vengeance 2001-2007, 2011 replaced by Hell in a Cell in 2012.
No Way Out 1998-2009, 2012

International pay-per-view events

Pay-per-view Year (s) Active Notes
SummerSlam 1992 Summerslam 1992 took place at Wembley Stadium, London, England.
One Night Only 1997 only The event took place in the UK in 1997. This was available in Europe and Canada only.
Capital Carnage 1998 only The event took place in the UK in December of that year.
No Mercy (UK) 1999 only The event took place in May of that year. Despite being held in the UK, another PPV called "No Mercy" was held the same year in the U.S.
Rebellion 1999–2002 The event took place in the UK in October 1999 and 2002, November 2001 and December 2000.
Insurrextion 2000–2003 The event took place in the UK in May between 2000–2002 and June in 2003.
Global Warning 2002 The event took place in Australia on August 10, 2002.

See also

References

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