WIW SummerBash (2024)
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| SummerBash (2024) | ||
| Promotional poster featuring various WIW wrestlers | ||
| Promotion | WIW | |
| Brand(s) | Rage ShowDown | |
| Date | August 3, 2024 | |
| City | Great Falls, Montana | |
| Venue | Four Seasons Arena | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| ← Previous Heatwire | Next → Brawl in Berlin | |
| SummerBash chronology | ||
| ← Previous 2023 | Next → 2025 | |
The 2024 SummerBash, also promoted as SummerSlam: Four Seasons, is a professional wrestling event produced by WIW. It will be the 37th annual SummerBash and is scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, Montana. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Rage and ShowDown brand divisions.
Eight matches were contested at the event. In the main event, which was the main match from Rage Kevin McAlmond defeated Clay Bignell amd Jeremiah Lawrence in a SummerBash match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. In another prominent match, which was ShowDown's main match, Ryan Barnhart defeated Dylan McAlmond in a McAlmond Bloodline Rules for the Unified WIW World Championship. The event marked the return of Martin McAlmond to WIW since going on a hiatus following SuperBrawl XVI in April 2024, he brought the returning Brandon Martin back to WIW who was also on a hiatus for the past few years. This event was also most notable for the debuts of Dove Cameron and Sofia Carson and a video appreance of members of the new faction The United.
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Production
Background
SummerBash is an annual professional wrestling event traditionally held in August by WIW since 1999. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer" as well as "The Biggest Bash of the Summer", it is one of the promotion's five biggest events of the year, along with SuperBrawl, World War, Soul Survivor, and Money in the Bank, referred to as the "Big Five". Out of the five, it is considered WIW's second biggest event of the year behind SuperBrawl.
Storylines
The card will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WIW's writers on the Rage and ShowDown brands, while storylines are produced on WIW's weekly television programs, Wednesday Night Rage and Friday Night ShowDown, which moves to Friday when WIW runs a pay-per-view on Saturday.
During an appearance at the WIW Experience attraction in Helena, Montana, WIW Chief Content Officer Rex Martin announced that the winners of both the King of the Ring and WIW Queen of the Ring tournaments would receive a match for the world championship of their respective brand at SummerBash. At Royalty of the Ring, Rage's Clay Bignell and ShowDown's Renae Geerlings won the respective tournaments, thus earning matches for the World Heavyweight Championship and WIW Women's Championship, respectively. However the next day, Rex Martin announced via WIW's social media that, due to the outcome of Bignell's match that the winner of a triple threat match at Clash in the Bronx: Draddy would also be eligable to choose to join the match or request a singles match at a later date, Lawrence choose to have his title match at SummerBash.
Results
| No. | Matches* | Stipulation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dove Cameron and Sofia Carson defeated The OG-2s (Jade Cline and Ashley Jones) | Tag team match | |
| 2 | Sarah Grobel (c) defeated Jennipher Harper | Singles match for the Women's World Championship | |
| 3 | Zack Harding defeated Chris Colfer (c) (with Darren Criss) | Singles match for the WIW United Nations Championship | |
| 4 | Brendan McGuire defeated Jared Hunt (c) | Singles match for the WIW International Championship | |
| 5 | Renae Geerlings defeated Ashley Holshue (c) | Singles match for the WIW Women's Championship | |
| 6 | Quay Painter defeated Matt Borske | Singles match Michael Fonger will be the special guest referee | |
| 7 | Ryan Barnhart (c) defeated Dylan McAlmond | McBloodline Rules for the Unified WIW World Championship | |
| 8 | Kevin McAlmond (c) defeated Clay Bignell and Jeremiah Lawrence | SummerBash match for the World Heavyweight Championship | |
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
*Card subject to change | |||
References
| ← 2023 • 2024 WIW pay-per-view events | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| WIW | World War • Steel Roulette: Perth • SuperBrawl XVI • Retaliation France • Royalty of the Ring • Clash in the Bronx: Draddy • Money in the Bank • SummerBash • Brawl in Berlin • Bloodbath • All Hail | ||
| NGW | Punishment Day • Rise & Extricate • Heatwire | ||
