IWE Extreme Rules (2021)

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Extreme Rules is a professional wrestling pay-per-view and IWE Network event produced by IWE for their Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. It is scheduled to take place on September 26, 2021, at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. It will be the 13th event under the Extreme Rules chronology and the first to be held in September. The event was originally scheduled to be held at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, but was relocated due to issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Production

Background

Extreme Rules is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) and IWE Network event produced by IWE since 2009. The concept of the show is that the event features various matches that are contested under hardcore rules and generally features one Extreme Rules match. The defunct Xtreme Championship Wrestling promotion, which IWE acquired in 2003, originally used the "extreme rules" term to describe the regulations for all of its matches; IWE adopted the term and has since used it in place of "hardcore match" or "hardcore rules." The 2020 event was titled as The Horror Show at Extreme Rules, but the title returned to "Extreme Rules" for 2021. The 2021 event will be the 13th event under the Extreme Rules chronology and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands.

The 2020 Extreme Rules event was originally to take place at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, but had to be relocated to the IWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida and held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The SAP Center put out an official statement that they would instead host the 2021 event. The venue also announced that there would be no refunds (unless a new date was not determined within 60 days), but tickets purchased would be honored for the following year's event. However, in May 2021, it was reported that due to the ongoing pandemic, the 2021 event would be held on July 18 from the IWE ThunderDome bio-secure bubble at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida, but after IWE announced that they would be resuming live touring in mid-July, that date was instead given to Money in the Bank. On July 9, 2021, WWE then announced that Extreme Rules would be held on September 26 at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, which were the initial reported date and venue for Clash of Champions.

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results are predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

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