IWE SummerSlam (2021)

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SummerSlam 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 August 21, 2021, at Allegiant Stadium in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada. It will be the 34th event under the SummerSlam chronology and the first to take place on a Saturday since the 1992 event, although it will be the first to air live on a Saturday. It will also be IWE's first PPV to air in theaters.

Production

Background

SummerSlam is a pay-per-view (PPV) and IWE Network event held annually in August by IWE since 1988. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer," it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series, referred to as the "Big Four" as they are the promotion's biggest shows of the year produced quarterly. It is considered IWE's second biggest event of the year behind WrestleMania. The 2021 event will be the 34th event in the SummerSlam chronology and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands.

On May 28, 2021, IWE announced that SummerSlam would take place live on Saturday, August 21, marking the first SummerSlam to be held on a Saturday since the 1992 event (which was pre-taped on a Saturday and aired on tape delay on a Monday), as well as the first SummerSlam to not be held on a Sunday since the 1994 event, which took place on a Monday. During the 2021 Belmont Stakes' pre-race show on June 5, the Allegiant Stadium in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada was confirmed as the host venue for SummerSlam. While IWE typically hosts PPVs on a Sunday night, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that it was the Allegiant Stadium that wanted SummerSlam held on a Saturday. This will mark the second SummerSlam to be held in a football stadium, with the foremost being the 1992 event at Wembley Stadium in Wembley, London, England, but the first to be held in a National Football League stadium in the United States. As part of SummerSlam Week, IWE will hold a multi-day tryout in the Las Vegas area to sign new wrestlers to developmental contracts.

On July 22, it was announced that SummerSlam would air in movie theaters across the United States, marking IWE's first PPV to air in theaters. Additionally, following Dustin Simpson's return to IWE at the previous PPV, Money in the Bank, the company began a tour titled the "Summer of Simpson." The tour has Simpson appearing on Raw, SmackDown, and at IWE Live events in the weeks leading up to SummerSlam with the tour culminating with SummerSlam itself.

SummerSlam will also be held on the same night as the Manny Pacquiao vs. Errol Spence Jr. boxing match, which will take place at the nearby T-Mobile Arena. This raised concerns over whether or not fans would be able to attend or watch both shows. According to PWInsider, IWE plans to have SummerSlam end with enough time for fans to leave the Allegiant Stadium and make it over to the T-Mobile Arena in order to watch the main event fight, or for those watching at home, enough time to switch PPV channels.

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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