WWE Extreme Rules

WWE Extreme Rules was a yearly professional wrestling pay-per-view and livestreaming show made by WWE from 2009 to 2022. The matches during Extreme Rules events usually centered around hardcore wrestling, called "Extreme Rules matches" by the company since the start of their ECW brand.

WWE Extreme Rules
Information
Other name(s)	The Horror Show at Extreme Rules (2020)
Promotion(s)	WWE
Brand(s)	Raw (2009–2011, 2017–2022) SmackDown (2009–2011, 2018–2022) 205 Live (2019) ECW (2009)
First event	2009
Last event	2022
Event gimmick	Hardcore wrestling

The event was originally known as One Night Stand from 2005 to 2008. The 2005 and 2006 editions were reunion events for the original Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion.^[1][2] The 2007 and 2008 editions already had "Extreme Rules" as a subtitle.

In 2009, Extreme Rules was established as its own pay-per-view, replacing One Night Stand.^[3] The 2017 event was the only Extreme Rules event to feature only one brand, being exclusive to Raw.^[4] The 2020 edition was called The Horror Show at Extreme Rules.^[5]

The last Extreme Rules event happened in 2022, as its October slot was given to Fastlane the following year.^[6] This came after WWE's Chief Content Officer Triple H said he no longer wanted to have some of the gimmick events.^[7]

Events

Raw-branded event

#	Event	Date	City	Venue	Main Event	Ref.
1	Extreme Rules (2009)	June 7, 2009	New Orleans, Louisiana	New Orleans Arena	Edge (c) vs. Jeff Hardy in a Ladder match for the World Heavyweight Championship Jeff Hardy (c) vs. CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship in Punk's Money in the Bank cash-in match	[3]
2	Extreme Rules (2010)	April 25, 2010	Baltimore, Maryland	1st Mariner Arena	John Cena (c) vs. Batista in a Last Man Standing match for the WWE Championship	[8]
3	Extreme Rules (2011)	May 1, 2011	Tampa, Florida	St. Pete Times Forum	The Miz (c) vs. John Cena vs. John Morrison in a Triple Threat Steel Cage match for the WWE Championship	[9]
4	Extreme Rules (2012)	April 29, 2012	Rosemont, Illinois	Allstate Arena	Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena in an Extreme Rules match	[10]
5	Extreme Rules (2013)	May 19, 2013	St. Louis, Missouri	Scottrade Center	Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H in a Steel Cage match	[11]
6	Extreme Rules (2014)	May 4, 2014	East Rutherford, New Jersey	Izod Center	Daniel Bryan (c) vs. Kane in an Extreme Rules match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship	[12]
7	Extreme Rules (2015)	April 26, 2015	Rosemont, Illinois	Allstate Arena	Seth Rollins (c) vs. Randy Orton in a Steel Cage match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship	[13]
8	Extreme Rules (2016)	May 22, 2016	Newark, New Jersey	Prudential Center	Roman Reigns (c) vs. AJ Styles in an Extreme Rules match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship	[14]
9	Extreme Rules (2017)	June 4, 2017	Baltimore, Maryland	Royal Farms Arena	Bray Wyatt vs. Finn Bálor vs. Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe vs. Seth Rollins in a Fatal Five-way Extreme Rules match for a WWE Universal Championship match at Great Balls of Fire	[15]
10	Extreme Rules (2018)	July 15, 2018	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	PPG Paints Arena	Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Seth Rollins in a 30-minute Iron Man match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship	[16]
11	Extreme Rules (2019)	July 14, 2019	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Wells Fargo Center	Seth Rollins (c) and Becky Lynch (c) vs. Baron Corbin and Lacey Evans in a Last Chance Winners Take All Extreme Rules mixed tag team match for the WWE Universal Championship and WWE Raw Women's Championship Seth Rollins (c) vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship in Lesnar's Money in the Bank cash-in match	[17]
12	The Horror Show at Extreme Rules	July 19, 2020	Orlando, Florida	WWE Performance Center1	Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt in a Wyatt Swamp Fight	[18]
13	Extreme Rules (2021)	September 26, 2021	Columbus, Ohio	Nationwide Arena	Roman Reigns (c) vs. "The Demon" Finn Bálor in an Extreme Rules match for the WWE Universal Championship	[19][20]
14	Extreme Rules (2022)	October 8, 2022	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Wells Fargo Center	Matt Riddle vs. Seth "Freakin" Rollins in a Fight Pit match with Daniel Cormier as the special guest referee.	[21]
(c) – is the champion(s)going into the match

¹ The Wyatt Swamp Fight, was filmed at an unknown location about two hours outside of Orlando on July 16–17.