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The official WWE Summerslam poster featuring the Bloodline members, Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga, and Tonga Loa
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The 2024 SummerSlam, also promoted as SummerSlam: Cleveland, is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It will be the 37th annual SummerSlam and is scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming, and will feature 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 known as Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse).
Background[]
Production[]
SummerSlam is an annual professional wrestling event traditionally held in August by WWE since 1988. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer", 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". Out of the five, it is considered WWE's second biggest event of the year behind WrestleMania.
Announced on March 12, 2024, the 37th SummerSlam is scheduled to be held on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. 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. 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.
Broadcast outlets[]
SummerSlam will be broadcast live on traditional pay-per-view worldwide and will also livestream on Peacock in the United States, Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia, Disney+ in the Philippines, Binge in Australia, Abema in Japan, SonyLIV in India, and the WWE Network in all other countries. In January 2024, WWE announced that all of the WWE Network content would move to Netflix in all countries where the former is still available as a standalone service starting in January 2025, making the 2024 event the final SummerSlam to livestream on the WWE Network.
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.
On May 23, 2024, during an appearance at the WWE Experience attraction in Saudi Arabia, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque announced that the winners of both the King of the Ring and Queen of the Ring tournaments would receive a match for the world championship of their respective brand at SummerSlam. At King and Queen of the Ring two days later, Raw's Gunther and SmackDown's Nia Jax won the respective tournaments, thus earning matches for the World Heavyweight Championship, held by Damian Priest, and the WWE Women's Championship, held by Bayley, respectively.
Gunther vs Damian Priest (c)[]
Bayley (c) vs Nia Jax[]
Sami Zayn (c) vs Bron Breakker vs Ilja Dragunov[]
Cody Rhodes (c) vs[]
Liv Morgan (c) vs Rhea Ripley[]
Dragon Lee (c) vs Jacob Fatu[]
Sami Zayn (c) vs Bron Breakker[]
Matches[]
| No. | Results | Stipulations | |
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| 1 | Drew McIntyre defeated CM Punk via pinfall | Special Guest Referee Match | |
| 2 | Jacob Fatu defeated Dragon Lee (c) via pinfall | Singles Match for the WWE United States Championship | |
| 3 | Bron Breakker defeated Sami Zayn (c) via pinfall | Singles Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship | |
| 4 | The Bloodline (Tama Tonga vs Tanga Loa) defeated #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tomasso Ciampa) (c) and R-KO (Randy Orton and Kevin Owens) via pinfall | Triple Threat Tornado Tag Team Match for the WWE Tag Team Championships | |
| 5 | The Wyatt 6 (Erick Rowan, Joe Gacy, and Dexter Lumis) defeated Team Gable (Chad Gable, Julius Creed, and Brutus Creed) via pinfall | Six-Man Tag Team Match | |
| 6 | Latino World Order (Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde) (W/ Rey Mysterio and Zelina Vega) defeated The Judgment Day (Finn Balor and JD McDonagh) (Wi/ Carlito) via pinfall | Two-on-Two Tag Team Match for the WWE World Tag Team Championships | |
| 7 | Nia Jax defeated Bayley (c) via pinfall | Singles Match for the Undisputed Women's Championship | |
| 8 | Gunther defeated Damian Priest (c) via Submission | Singles Match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship | |
| 9 | Liv Morgan (c) defeated Rhea Ripley via pinfall | Singles Match for the WWE Women's World Championship | |
| 10 | Cody Rhodes (c) defeated Solo Sikoa via pinfall | Bloodline Rules Match for the WWE Championship | |
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
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