SummerSlam (2021)

SummerSlam (2021) (also referred to as SummerSlammiversary 16) is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view event and WWE Network event produced by WWE that will take place on August 22, 2021 in a city and venue Ente Fiera Autonomo Basilicata Srl in Tito Scalo, Basilicata. It will be the sixteenth annual SummerSlam event and will be WWE's eighth pay-per-view event to take place in 2021.

Background
SummerSlam will feature professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that play out on WWE's primary television programs; Raw and Smackdown. Wrestlers portray heroes or villains as they follow a series of events that build tension, and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.