SummerSlam (2024)

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SummerSlam
Cleveland, Ohio
VenueCleveland Browns Stadium
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The 2024 SummerSlam, also promoted as SummerSlam: Cleveland, is an upcoming

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

Cleveland, Ohio
.

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

livestreaming services Peacock in the United States the WWE Network in most international markets. 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]

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.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ Dee, Louie (May 17, 2006). "Let the Party Begin". WWE. Archived from the original on November 16, 2006. Retrieved May 12, 2008.
  2. ^ Hamilton, Ian. Wrestling's Sinking Ship: What Happens to an Industry Without Competition. p. 160.
  3. ^ News 3 Staff (August 22, 2021). "Las Vegas to host WWE's Money in the Bank in 2022". KSNV. Archived from the original on August 23, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. Independent.co.uk. Archived
    from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
  5. CBSSports. Archived
    from the original on August 8, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
  6. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (March 12, 2024). "WWE SummerSlam To Take Place In Cleveland On August 3". Fightful. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
  7. ^ "WWF SummerSlam 1996 « Events Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database". www.cagematch.net. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
  8. Discovery Communications. Archived
    from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  9. ^ "Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
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