SummerSlam was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. It took place August 24, 2003, at the America West Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. It was the 16th annual SummerSlam event and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown! brand divisions. The event grossed over USD 715,000 ticket sales from an attendance of 16,113.
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SummerSlam was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. It took place August 24, 2003, at the America West Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. It was the 16th annual SummerSlam event and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown! brand divisions. Nine professional wrestling matches were set on the event’s supercard, a scheduling of multiple high-level matches. The first main event was an Elimination Chamber match, in which World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated Chris Jericho, Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Randy Orton, and Shawn Michaels to retain his championship. In the other main event, defending WWE Champion Kurt Angle defeated Brock Lesnar in a standard wrestling match. The undercard included Kane defeating Rob Van Dam in a No Holds Barred match, and Eddie Guerrero defending his United States Championship against Chris Benoit, Rhyno and Tajiri. The event grossed over USD 715,000 ticket sales from an attendance of 16,113 and received about 415,000 pay- per-view buys, more than the following year’s event. It is considered WWE’s second biggest event of the year behind WrestleMania. The buildup to the match began on July 22, when co-general manager Eric Bischoff, announced that Triple H would defend the championship against Goldberg in a singles match at the event. The second main event resulted from events on the Smack down! brand. During an interview with Vince McMahon, Lesnar challenged Angle to a rematch after Angle won it in the ring in a steel cage.
On the August 7, McMahon decided that Lesnar would have to earn his rematch by competing in a cage against himself with Angle officiating as a special guest referee. The events leading up to this match began when Van Dam took off his mask and exposed his face in front of his face on the June 23 episode of Raw! In a preliminary match involving the Raw brand wrestlers, Van Dam wrestled Kane under No disqualification regulations. The match resulted in neither wrestler winning the match, after neither wrestler won the match in the steel cage, and neither wrestler was allowed to face the other in a rematch. On August 18, the rivalry among the six competitors intensified during a promo, during which each participant in the Elimination Chambers discussed the match and taunted the other wrestlers. During the show’s mainevent, Orton wrestled Goldberg, and Nash interfered in the match when he hit Goldberg with a chair. During a pre-match promo, Michaels then came down to the ring, but as he was about to hit Triple H with the WWE Undisputed Championship belt, Jericho ran into the ring and hit Michaels with a Chair. The feud between Michaels and Jericho led to the end of the match on the July 31 episode of Smackdown! The match was the first to feature the World Heavy Weight Championship, following its establishment for Raw in September 2002 after the WWEUndisputed title became exclusive to Smack Down! and renamed to the WWE Championship.
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