WWE Backlash, known as WrestleMania Backlash since 2021, is a professional wrestling event that is produced by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut.
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13 Facts About WWE Backlash
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The inaugural WWE Backlash had been originally advertised as an In Your House show, but the branding was dropped before the event took place.
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From its inception until 2009, WWE Backlash held this position as the post-WrestleMania PPV and was held annually in April, with the exception of the 2005 event, which was held in May After the 2009 event, WWE Backlash was discontinued and replaced by Extreme Rules in 2010, but after seven years, it was reinstated in 2016 and held in September as that year's post-SummerSlam PPV.
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WWE Backlash was established to be held after WrestleMania XV, and it took place on April 25,1999, at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Early advertising for the inaugural WWE Backlash had featured the "In Your House" branding until it was quietly dropped in the weeks leading up to the pay-per-view.
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Second WWE Backlash event was held the following year after WrestleMania 2000, thus establishing WWE Backlash as an annual PPV for the WWF.
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The 2002 WWE Backlash was in turn the promotion's very first PPV held following the implementation of the original brand split and it featured wrestlers from both brands.
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In mid-2016, WWE reintroduced the brand split and brought back brand-exclusive PPVs Due to the need for more PPV events, Backlash was reinstated, and the 2016 event was held exclusively for the SmackDown-brand and was WWE's first brand-exclusive PPV of the second brand split.
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The 2018 event was scheduled to be a Raw-exclusive PPV, but following WrestleMania 34 that year, WWE Backlash again discontinued brand-exclusive PPVs, thus events held since have featured wrestlers from both Raw and SmackDown.
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In 2019, WWE Backlash was scheduled to be held in June it was canceled and replaced by a one-off PPV called Stomping Grounds.
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WWE Backlash then returned in 2020 and was held in June that year.
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The 2021 Backlash was in turn WWE's first PPV held in the ThunderDome at the Yuengling Center.
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On February 11,2022, WWE announced that the 2022 event would be held under the "WrestleMania Backlash" name, thus officially renaming the event series to WrestleMania Backlash.
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