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The official WWE Summerslam (2015) poster
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Money in the Bank 2015 | Summerslam (2015) | Night of Champions 2015 | |||||||||||||||||
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Summerslam 2014 | Summerslam (2015) | Summerslam 2016 |
The 2015 SummerSlam was the 28th annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It took place on August 23, 2015, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York and would be the first of four consecutive SummerSlam events to take place at the arena. It was the first SummerSlam since 2008 to be held outside of Los Angeles as its Staples Center was the exclusive home for SummerSlam from 2009 to 2014. It was also the eighth SummerSlam to be held in the New York metropolitan area. The Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey was originally supposed to host SummerSlam, but due to its closure in April 2015, the event was relocated. It was also the first SummerSlam to be four hours in length, a length previously reserved only for WrestleMania. This was also the last SummerSlam event to be held before the reintroduction of the brand extension in July 2016.
The event was the second night of what was billed as a "triple-header" at the Barclays Center, with NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn having taken place the previous night, and Raw the following night. Ten matches were contested at the event, with no match on the pre-show. In the main event, The Undertaker defeated Brock Lesnar in controversial fashion; Lesnar put Undertaker in his Kimura lock and the timekeeper rang the bell after seeing the Undertaker tap out, but since the referee did not see Undertaker submit, the match continued. The confusion allowed Undertaker to surprise Lesnar with a low blow before trapping him in the Hell's Gate submission hold, which caused Lesnar to pass out, giving Undertaker the win.
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Background[]
SummerSlam is an annual professional wrestling event produced every August by WWE since 1988. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer", it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views (PPV), along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series, referred to as the "Big Four". It has since become considered WWE's second biggest event of the year behind WrestleMania. Announced on October 13, 2014, the 2015 event was the 28th SummerSlam and was scheduled to be held on August 23, 2015, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to airing on PPV, the event was available to livestream on the WWE Network. Tickets went on sale on March 14 through Ticketmaster.
The Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey was originally supposed to host SummerSlam, but due to its closure in April 2015, the event was moved to the Barclays Center. Additionally, WWE increased SummerSlam's length to four hours, a length previously reserved only for WrestleMania. The event was also scheduled as the second night of what WWE billed as a "triple-header" at the Barclays Center, with NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn having taken place the previous night, and Raw the following night.
Storylines[]
The event comprised 10 matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Raw and SmackDown.
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No. | Results | Stipulation | Times |
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1 | Randy Orton defeated Sheamus via Pinfall | Singles Match | 11:50 |
2 | Rusev (With Summer Rae) defeated Dolph Ziggler (With Lana) (c) via Technical Submission | Singles Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship | 14:18 |
3 | Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns defeated The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper) by pinfall | Tag Team Match | 10:55 |
4 | Neville and Stephen Amell defeated King Barrett and Stardust by pinfall | Tag Team Match | 7:35 |
5 | Seth Rollins (c) defeated Sting via Referee Stoppage | Singles Match for the WWE Championship | 12:59 |
6 | Devon Luthor defeated John Cena (c) via Pinfall | Singles Match for the WWE United States Championswhip | 15:44 |
7 | Team PCB (Becky Lynch, Charlotte, and Paige) defeated Team B.A.D. (Naomi, Sasha Banks, and Tamina) and Team Bella (Alicia Fox, Brie Bella, and Nikki Bella) by pinfall | Three-Team Elimination Match | 15:20 |
8 | The Prime Time Players defeated The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) (c), The Usos (Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso), and The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto and Sin Cara) via Pinfall | Fatal 4 Way Tornado Tag Team Match for the WWE Tag Team Championships | 11:20 |
9 | Bray Wyatt defeated Dean Ambrose via Pinfall | Singles Match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship | 14:18 |
10 | The Undertaker defeated Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) by technical submission | Singles Match | 17:10 |