SummerSlam (2025)

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Promotion WWE
Brand(s) Raw
SmackDown
DateAugust 2–3, 2025
City East Rutherford, New Jersey
Venue MetLife Stadium
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The 2025 SummerSlam, also promoted as SummerSlam: New Jersey, is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It will be the 38th annual SummerSlam and is scheduled to take place as a two-night event on Saturday, August 2, and Sunday, August 3, 2025, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, marking the first SummerSlam to take place across two nights. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming, which will be the first SummerSlam to broadcast on Netflix, and will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.

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Production

Background

The event will be held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. MetLife Stadium 2022.jpg
The event will be held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

SummerSlam is an annual professional wrestling event traditionally held in August by WWE since 1988. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer", [1] 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". [2] [3] Out of the five, it is considered WWE's second biggest event of the year behind WrestleMania. [4] [5]

On September 26, 2024, WWE, in conjunction with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA), announced the 38th SummerSlam, scheduled to be held across two nights on August 2 and 3, 2025, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. [6] MetLife Stadium previously hosted WrestleMania 29 in 2013 and WrestleMania 35 in 2019. This will be the first two-night SummerSlam, though WWE had previously announced that the event would expand to two nights beginning with the 2026 edition in Minneapolis. [7] Previously, only WrestleMania had been held as a two-night WWE event since 2020 (originally done as a precaution due to the COVID-19 pandemic before becoming permanent in 2021). The event will feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. In addition to airing on traditional pay-per-view worldwide and via livestreaming on Peacock in the United States, [8] it will be the first SummerSlam to livestream on Netflix in most international markets, following the WWE Network's merger under the service in January. [9]

To help secure the event, NJSEA committed $7.125 million from New Jersey's allotment of federal funds under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP), specifically from a fund intended provide aid to industries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic including travel and tourism. NJSEA said it expected the event to generate $80 million in economic impact for the region. Bergen newspaper The Record reported that the $6.24 billion in total funds New Jersey received under the ARP had to be allocated by the end of 2024 and spent before the end of 2026, and noted there was "still money to be used". [10] [11]

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 . [12] [13]

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