SummerSlam (2018) is an up and coming proficient wrestling pay-per-see (PPV) occasion and WWE Network occasion, created by WWE for their Raw and SmackDown brands. It will occur on August 19, 2018, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It will be the thirty-first occasion under the SummerSlam sequence.
Raw
In the wake of holding her title against Nia Jax at Extreme Rules in an Extreme Rules match, Raw Women's Champion Alexa Bliss bragged that she had beaten each lady on the Raw list. Ronda Rousey, who Bliss had assaulted at Money in the Bank, in this way costing her a title match, and who had been suspended, turned out from the group and assaulted Bliss and Mickie James. Crude General Manager Kurt Angle at that point turned out and expressed that since Rousey had broken her suspension, she would be suspended for one more week. Point at that point planned Bliss to guard the title against Rousey at SummerSlam as long as Rousey did not break her suspension again.
On the Raw after Extreme Rules Bobby Lashley, Drew McIntyre, Seth Rollins, Elias, Finn Bálor, and Roman Reigns all argued their cases with respect to why they should confront Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship at SummerSlam. Accordingly, Angle booked two triple danger coordinates that night, with the victors confronting each other the next week to figure out who might confront Lesnar at SummerSlam. Rules won the primary triple danger coordinate by vanquishing Bálor and McIntyre, while Lashley won the second by overcoming Elias and Rollins, in this way setting up Reigns and Lashley confronting each other the accompanying week, in which Reigns won to confront Lesnar for the Universal Championship at SummerSlam. Lesnar and Heyman would then phony a separate before ambushing Reigns on the last Raw before SummerSlam.
At Extreme Rules, Kevin Owens vanquished Braun Strowman in a Steel Cage coordinate after Strowman tossed Owens from the highest point of the enclosure onto the report table. On the July 23 scene of Raw, Owens pledged to remove everything from Strowman. A rematch was booked for SummerSlam with a stipulation that if Owens won, even by exclusion or countout, he would win Strowman's Money in the Bank contract.
At Extreme Rules, Dolph Ziggler vanquished Seth Rollins 5– 4 in sudden passing extra time of a 30-minute Iron Man match to hold the Intercontinental Championship, on account of obstruction from Drew McIntyre. On the July 23 scene of Raw, Rollins and Finn Bálor crushed Ziggler and McIntyre. A rematch amongst Ziggler and Rollins for the title was planned for SummerSlam. During the agreement marking on the August 13 scene of Raw, Dean Ambrose came back from damage, affirming he would be in Rollins' corner at SummerSlam.
At Extreme Rules, Finn Bálor vanquished Baron Corbin. Few weeks after the fact, a rematch between the two was planned with Corbin overcoming Bálor. The next week, another match between the two was booked for SummerSlam.
On the August 13, 2018 scene of Raw, The B-Team (Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel) safeguarded the Raw Tag Team Championship in a triple risk coordinate against Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt and The Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson), which The B-Team won after The Revival played out a Shatter Machine on Wyatt, just for Axel to toss Dawson to ringside and cover Wyatt for the win. It was reported thereafter that The B-Team would guard the Raw Tag Team Championship against The Revival on the SummerSlam pre-show.
SmackDown
On the July 24 scene of SmackDown, SmackDown General Manager Paige was going to report AJ Styles' adversary for the WWE Championship at SummerSlam with an open contract, yet was hindered by James Ellsworth, who attempted to assert the contendership and was in this manner terminated by Paige in the wake of offending her. As Paige saw to Ellsworth being kicked out of the building, Samoa Joe assaulted Styles with the Coquina Clutch. Joe at that point marked the agreement, subsequently making their counterpart for the title official at SummerSlam.
On July 21, Paige reported a #1 contender's label group title competition with the triumphant group gaining the privilege to challenge The Bludgeon Brothers (Harper and Rowan) for the SmackDown Tag Team Championship at SummerSlam. The competition started on the July 24 scene of SmackDown, where The New Day's Big E and Xavier Woods and Cesaro and Sheamus progressed to the finals by crushing Sanity's Alexander Wolfe and Killian Dain and The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso), respectively. The New Day's Big E and Kingston at that point vanquished Cesaro and Sheamus in the finals to confront The Bludgeon Brothers for the titles at SummerSlam.
On the July 24 scene of SmackDown, Becky Lynch vanquished SmackDown Women's Champion Carmella in a non-title match to acquire the privilege to challenge Carmella for the title at SummerSlam. The next week, Charlotte Flair returned and spared Lynch from Carmella. Paige at that point planned Carmella to confront Flair with a stipulation that if Flair won, she would be added to the title coordinate. Style won the match, in this way influencing the title to coordinate a triple threat.
At Extreme Rules, Shinsuke Nakamura vanquished Jeff Hardy to catch the United States Championship after a pre-coordinate low blow. A rematch between the two for the title was planned for the accompanying SmackDown with Hardy winning by exclusion after he was assaulted by Randy Orton. On August 3, another match between the two for the title was booked for SummerSlam.
In the primary period of NXT, The Miz filled in as the "WWE Pro" of "NXT Rookie" Daniel Bryan. All through the season, Miz would continually chide Bryan, guaranteeing he was not WWE material and communicating his disappointment at Bryan being his Rookie. The inclination was common as Bryan would routinely make remarks on the show insinuating the way that he had been wrestling longer than Miz, and that he ought to be the Pro and Miz ought to be the Rookie. On the May 11 scene of NXT, Bryan was wiped out from the show. The next week after his disposal, Bryan would show up on NXT assaulting The Miz and Michael Cole. After six years, on the August 24, 2016 scene of Talking Smack, Bryan (at that point General Manager of SmackDown) got into a verbal quarrel with The Miz, which comprised of Bryan scrutinizing Miz's wrestling capacity and "safe style" of wrestling. The Miz reacted by going on a rage about Bryan being not able come back to in-ring rivalry because of the different wounds he had supported all through his WWE career. From this point forward, Bryan and Miz would have sporadic cooperations for over a year. On March 20, 2018, Bryan was formally cleared to come back to the ring by doctors, after which he continued his quarrel with The Miz. On the July 31 scene of SmackDown, Bryan tested Miz to a match at SummerSlam. Miz would at first decrease the match, expressing that he has dependably been above Bryan returning to NXT season one, and prescribed that Bryan come back to the free circuit once his WWE contract expired. However, the next week, The Miz acknowledged Bryan's SummerSlam challenge.[19]
On the July 24 scene of SmackDown, Andrade "Cien" Almas vanquished Rusev. The next week, Zelina Vega crushed Lana. A rematch amongst Vega and Lana was planned the next week, with Vega winning again. On August 11, a blended label group coordinate amongst Rusev and Lana and Almas and Vega was booked for SummerSlam pre-show.
