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<caption>Annual WWE Pay-Per-View Events</caption>
|-
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Date
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Event
|-
|January
|[[File:WWE-Royal-Rumble-Logo 2017.png|60px]]
| align="center" |[[Royal Rumble]]
|-
|February
|[[File:Elimination Chamber 2018 logo.png|60px]]
| align="center" |[[Elimination Chamber (PPV)|Elimination Chamber]]
|-
|April
|[[File:WrestleMania 38 logo.jpg|60px]]
| align="center" |[[WrestleMania]]
|-
|May
|[[File:WrestleMania Backlash logo.png|60px]]
| align="center" |[[Backlash]]
|-
|June
|[[File:Hell In A Cell Logo DarkBackground.png|60px]]
|align="center" |[[Hell in a Cell (PPV)|Hell in a Cell]]
|-
|July
|[[File:MITB 2015.png|60px]]
| align="center" |[[Money in the Bank (PPV)|Money in the Bank]]
|-
|August
|[[File:SummerSlam 2015.png|center|60px]]
| align="center" |[[SummerSlam]]
|-
|October
|[[File:Extremeruleslogo.png|center|60px]]
| align="center" |[[WWE Extreme Rules|Extreme Rules]]
|-
|November
|[[File:WWE Survivor Series 2016 Logo.png|60px]]
| align="center" |[[Survivor Series]]
|}

Each month, [[World Wrestling Entertainment]] (WWE) holds one or two annual [[pay-per-view]] events usually three hours long. Pay-per-view events are a big part of the revenue stream for WWE.

==History==
It is a commonly held misconception that the first WWF pay-per-view was November 1985's [[The Wrestling Classic]], a tournament held at the Rosemont Horizon near Chicago, but the [[WrestleMania 1985|first WrestleMania]] event, in March of the same year, was available on pay-per-view in some markets. The first two WrestleMania's were undeniable financial successes, and after WrestleMania III became perhaps the best known event in wrestling history, the WWF decided to expand their pay-per-view offerings.

The first [[Survivor Series]] event was offered on November 29 [[1987]], scheduled directly against NWA's [[NWA Starrcade|Starrcade]], traditionally considered to be that promotion's biggest yearly event. The WWF informed cable companies that if they chose to carry Starrcade, they would not be allowed to carry future WWF events. The vast majority of companies showed Survivor Series (only three opted to remain loyal to their contract with the NWA), and the resulting financial blow to Starrcade was in many ways the beginning of the end for [[Jim Crockett Promotions]].

The debut of the [[Royal Rumble]] in January 1988 was actually shown on the USA Network, where it drew the highest rating to that time in the network's history. The event became a pay-per-view the following year.

The first [[SummerSlam]] was held in [[Madison Square Garden]] in August 1988. These four events - the Royal Rumble in January, WrestleMania in March or April, SummerSlam in August, and Survivor Series in November - were the only annual pay-per-view offerings (other than the [[King of the Ring]]) from the WWF until 1995, after rival [[World Championship Wrestling]] had expanded the number of their pay-per-view shows. Initially, the WWF used the [[In Your House]] brand, but beginning in 1996 began using other names to compliment the In Your House name (such as [[WWE Bad Blood|Badd Blood]] and [[WWE No Way Out|No Way Out]]), to avoid confusion. By the end of February 1999, the In Your House name was nonexistent.

This trend escalated to the point that by 1996, both companies showed monthly events on pay-per-view.

The WWE ran twice yearly pay-per-views which were exclusive to the UK up to 2003, but after the brand extension occurred they were scrapped in favour of tours, with a TV taping included, so now the WWE has the WrestleMania Revenge tour after WrestleMania at the beginning of the year and the Survivor Series tour at the end of the year, in the UK. Each includes a RAW, SmackDown!, and an ECW taping.

In Australia, WWE's pay-per-views are shown on Main Event. In the United Kingdom, only usually around 8 of them charged for and are shown on Sky Box Office. These are all charged at £14.95 GBP and has no extra charge for WrestleMania like in the USA. The other events are seen on the subscription channel Sky Sports 1.

==Active and upcoming events==
The following is a list of the current, active titles for events scheduled by WWE.

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! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Date
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Event
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Venue
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |City
|-
|November 4, 2023
|[[Crown Jewel 2023|Crown Jewel]]
|[[Mohammed Abdu Arena]]
|[[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]]
|-
|November 25, 2023
|[[Survivor Series 2023|Survivor Series]]
|[[Allstate Arena]]
|[[Rosemont, Illinois]]
|-
|January 27, 2024
|[[Royal Rumble 2024|Royal Rumble]]
|[[Tropicana Field]]
|[[St. Petersburg, Florida]]
|-
|February 24, 2024
|[[Elimination Chamber 2024|Elimination Chamber]]
|[[Perth Stadium|Optus Stadium]]
|[[Perth]], [[Australia]]
|-
|April 6 & 7, 2024
|[[WrestleMania XL]]
|[[Lincoln Financial Field]]
|[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
|}

===Brand extension===
In June 2003, WWE announced to further their [[WWE Brand Extension|brand extension]] and make their pay-per-views exclusive to a particular brand ([[WWE Raw|RAW]], [[WWE Friday Night SmackDown!|SmackDown!]], and later, [[Extreme Championship Wrestling (WWE)|ECW]]). The only exceptions to this were the established Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Survivor Series events which remained joint productions, and WrestleMania being the only event with wrestlers from different brands competing against each other. This allowed WWE to eventually add more pay-per-view events to their offerings, such as [[WWE Cyber Sunday|Cyber Sunday]] and [[WWE The Great American Bash|The Great American Bash]] (itself a revival of an old [[The Great American Bash|NWA and WCW event]]). From late 2005, the restrictions were relaxed and interbrand matches in brand-exclusive events were becoming more frequent. In March 2007, it was announced that the idea of brand-exclusive events was scrapped and would now feature matches from all three brands. The brand-exclusive events were:

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! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Pay-per-view
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Brand
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Years
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Note
|-
|[[File:WWE New Year's Revolution Logo.png|80px]]
|[[New Year's Revolution]]
|[[WWE Raw|RAW]]
|2005-2007
|<small>N/A</small>
|-
|[[File:WWE-Backlash-Logo.png|80px]]
|[[Backlash]]
|[[WWE Friday Night SmackDown|SmackDown!]]
|2004-2006, 2017
|<small>N/A</small>
|-
|[[File:Bad Blood Logo 3.jpg|50px]]
|[[Bad Blood]]
|[[WWE Raw|RAW]]
|2003-2004
|<small>N/A</small>
|-
|[[File:WWE Vengeance Logo.JPG|80px]]
|[[Vengeance]]
|[[WWE Raw|RAW]]
|2004-2006
|<small>In 2003, Vengeance was a Smackdown! exclusive event</small>
|-
|[[File:WWE-Unforgiven-Logo.png|80px]]
|[[Unforgiven]]
|[[WWE Raw|RAW]]
|2003-2006
|<small>N/A</small>
|-
|[[File:CS.jpg|50px]]
|[[WWE Cyber Sunday|Cyber Sunday]]
|[[WWE Raw|RAW]]
|2006-2008
|<small>From 2004-2005, the event was promoted under the name [[Taboo Tuesday]].</small>
|-
|[[File:WWE-Armageddon-Logo.png|80px]]
|[[Armageddon]]
|[[WWE Friday Night SmackDown|SmackDown!]]
|2004-2006
|<small>In 2003, Armageddon was a Raw exclusive event</small>
|-
|[[File:WWE-No-Way-Out-Logo.png|80px]]
|[[No Way Out]]
|[[WWE Friday Night SmackDown|SmackDown!]]
|2002-2007
|<small>Returned in 2012</small>
|-
|[[File:JD.jpg|80px]]
|[[Judgment Day]]
|[[WWE Friday Night SmackDown|SmackDown!]]
|2004-2006
|<small>N/A</small>
|-
|[[File:WWE-Great-American-Bash-Logo.png|80px]]
|[[WWE The Great American Bash|The Great American Bash]]
|[[WWE Friday Night SmackDown|SmackDown!]]
|2004-2006
|<small>N/A</small>
|-
|[[File:No Mercy Logo.gif|50px]]
|[[WWE No Mercy|No Mercy]]
|[[WWE Raw|RAW]]<br />[[WWE Smackdown|SmackDown!]]
|2003-2006, 2017<br />(Raw)<br />2016 (SmackDown)
|<small>N/A</small>
|-
|[[File:December to Dismember2.jpg|80px]]
|[[ECW December to Dismember|December to Dismember]]
|[[Extreme Championship Wrestling (WWE)|ECW]]
|2006
|<small>This was the only ECW exclusive pay-per-view.</small>
|}

==Former pay-per-view events==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%; text-align:center;"
|-
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Pay-per-view
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Year (s) Active
! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Notes
|-
|[[WWF The Wrestling Classic|The Wrestling Classic]]
|1985
|
|-
|[[This Tuesday in Texas]]
|1991
|
|-
|[[King of the Ring]]
|1993–2002
|
|-
|[[In Your House]]
|1995–1999
|
|-
|[[WWE Bad Blood|Bad Blood]]
|1997, 2003–2004
|
|-
|[[Over the Edge]]
|1998–1999
|<small>Discontinued after the death of [[Owen Hart]] at the 1999 event.</small>
|-
|[[WWF Fully Loaded|Fully Loaded]]
|1998–2000
|<small>Replaced by [[WWF Invasion|Invasion]] in 2001, and permanently discontinued when replaced by [[WWE Vengeance|Vengeance]] in 2002.</small>
|-
|[[WWF Invasion|Invasion]]
|2001
|
|-
|[[WWE One Night Stand|One Night Stand]]
|2005–2008
|
|-
|[[December To Dismember 2006|December To Dismember]]
|2006
|
|-
|[[WWE New Year's Revolution|New Year's Revolution]]
|2005–2007
|<small>This pay-per-view was removed because WWE decided to reduce the number of pay-per-views per year.</small>
|-
|[[WWE Unforgiven|Unforgiven]]
|1998–2008
|
|-
|[[WWE Cyber Sunday|Cyber Sunday/Taboo Tuesday]]
|2004–2008
|
|-
|[[WWE Judgment Day|Judgment Day]]
|1998, 2000–2009
|
|-
|[[WWE The Bash|The Bash]]
|The Great American Bash (2004–2008),<br />The Bash (2009)
|
|-
|[[WWE Breaking Point|Breaking Point]]
|2009
|
|-
|[[Fatal 4-Way 2010|Fatal 4-Way]]
|2010
|<small>was set to make a return as a 2012 PPV but was scrapped by [[WWE]].</small>
|-
|[[WWE Bragging Rights|Bragging Rights]]
|2009–2010
|<small>was set to make a return as a 2012 PPV but was scrapped by [[WWE]].</small>
|-
|[[Capitol Punishment 2011|Capitol Punishment]]
|2011
| <small>replaced by [[WWE No Way Out|No Way Out]] in 2012.</small>
|-
|[[WWE Vengeance|Vengeance]]
|2001–2007, 2011
|<small>replaced by [[WWE Hell in a Cell|Hell in a Cell]] in 2012.</small>
|-
|[[Over The Limit]]
|2010–2012
|<small>replaced by [[WWE Battleground|Battleground]] in 2013.</small>
|-
|[[Backlash]]
|1999-2018
|replaced by [[Clash of Champions (PPV)|Clash of Champions]] in 2019
|}

==See also==
*[[Saturday Night's Main Event]] (non-pay-per-view supercard)
*[[WWF The Main Event|The Main Event]] (non-pay-per-view supercard)
*[[World Wrestling Entertainment/Event history]]
*[[List of WCW pay-per-view events]]
*[[List of ECW pay-per-view events]]
*[[List of TNA pay-per-view events]]
*[[List of ROH pay-per-view events]]

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