The 2018 SummerSlam was the 31st annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brand divisions. The event took place on August 19, 2018, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York for the fourth and final consecutive year.
Thirteen matches were contested at the event, including three on the Kickoff pre-show. Nine matches, including two on the Kickoff pre-show, were championship matches. In the main event,
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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, SummerSlam, 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 August 14, 2017, the 2018 event was the 31st SummerSlam and was scheduled to be held on August 19, 2018, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York for the fourth consecutive year. It featured wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brand divisions. The event aired on pay-per-view worldwide and was livestreamed on the WWE Network and ESPN+. Tickets went on sale February 2 through Ticketmaster.
Storylines[]
The event comprised 13 matches, including three on the Kickoff pre-show, 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 on the Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brands, with storylines produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw, SmackDown Live, and the cruiserweight-exclusive 205 Live.
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| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
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| 1p | Cedric Alexander (c) defeated Drew Gulak via Pinfall | Singles Match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship | 10:15 |
| 2p | The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) defeated The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) via Pinfall | Tag Team Match for the WWE Tag Team Championships | 7:00 |
| 3p | Chad Gable (c) defeated Jinder Mahal | Singles Match for the WWE Television Championship | 6:15 |
| 4 | Zante Maverick defeated Rodrick Strong, and Shelton Benjamin (c) via Pinfall | Triple Threat Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship | 22:00 |
| 5 | Roman Reigns defeated Brock Lesnar (With Paul Heyman) via Pinfall | Singles Match | 6:00 |
| 6 | The Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) (c) defeated The New Day (Big E and Xavier Woods) (With Kofi Kingston) via Pinfall | Tag Team Match for the WWE World Tag Team Championships | 9:45 |
| 7 | Charlotte Flair defeated Carmella (c) and Becky Lynch by pinfall | Triple threat match for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship | 15:15 |
| 8 | Dean Ambrose defeated Kevin Owens (with Sami Zayn) by unhooking the title from it's clasp | Singles Ladder Match for the WWE United States Championship | 17:45 |
| 9 | Samoa Joe defeated AJ Styles via Disqualification | Singles Match | 22:45 |
| 10 | Keith Lee defeated Baron Corbin (c) via Pinfall | Singles Match for the World Heavyweight Championship | 7:25 |
| 11 | Daniel Bryan defeated The Miz via Pinfall | Singles Match | 23:30 |
| 12 | Akame Yamamoto defeated Alexa Bliss (c) via Pinfall | Singles Match for the RAW Women's Championship | 6:12 |
| 13 | Adam Cole defeated Shinsuke Nakamura (c) via Pinfall | Singles Match for the WWE Championship | 24:10 |