The 2024 Bad Blood is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by the American company WWE. It will be the fourth Bad Blood and will take place on Saturday, October 5, 2024, at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, which is the 27-year anniversary of the first event. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will be the first Bad Blood held since 2004, in turn marking the first Bad Blood to air on WWE's livestreaming platforms.
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| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown | ||
| Date | October 5, 2024 | ||
| City | Atlanta, Georgia | ||
| Venue | State Farm Arena | ||
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Production
editBackground
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Bad Blood was first held as the 18th In Your House pay-per-view (PPV) event in October 1997; In Your House was a series of monthly PPV shows first produced by the then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) from May 1995 to February 1999. The In Your House branding was retired following February 1999's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House event, as the company moved to install permanent names for each of its monthly PPVs.[1] After six years and after the promotion had been renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in early 2002,[2] WWE announced the return of Bad Blood as its own PPV event to be held in June 2003 and it was made exclusive to wrestlers of the Raw brand,[3] a storyline subdivision called the brand extension in which the promotion divided its roster into two separate brands, Raw and SmackDown!, where wrestlers were exclusively assigned to perform.[4] The 2004 Bad Blood would be the final Bad Blood event, as it was doubly replaced by One Night Stand and Vengeance the following year.[5][6] After 13 years, Bad Blood was to be revived in July 2017,[7] but these plans were scrapped in favor of an event titled Great Balls of Fire.[8]
On July 6, 2024, WWE uploaded a YouTube video featuring Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes and American record producer Metro Boomin, where they officially announced the return of Bad Blood after 20 years. It was scheduled for the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, October 5, 2024, the 27-year anniversary of the first Bad Blood.[9] It will feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions and in addition to airing on traditional PPV worldwide, it will be the first Bad Blood to air on WWE's livestreaming platforms, Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in most international markets, the latter of which was the company's first streaming platform that launched in 2014.[10]
Storylines
editThe event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[11][12] while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[13]
References
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- ^ "WWE Entertainment To Make RAW and SMACKDOWN Distinct Television Brands" (Press release). WWE. March 27, 2002. Archived from the original on April 17, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
- ^ "One Night Stand results". World Wrestling Entertainment. June 12, 2005. Retrieved September 12, 2007.
- ^ "Vengeance (2005) Venue". WWE. Retrieved August 14, 2008.
- ^ Johnson, Mike (March 21, 2017). "WWE Reviving PPV after over a decade". PWInsider. Archived from the original on March 22, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
- ^ Johnson, Mike (April 28, 2017). "July WWE PPV in Dallas gets new title, Lesnar return set". PWInsider. Archived from the original on July 1, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
- ^ Currier, Joseph (July 6, 2024). "WWE Bad Blood returning this October, location announced". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Archived from the original on July 6, 2024. Retrieved July 6, 2024.
- ^ WWE (July 6, 2024). "Cody Rhodes and Metro Boomin announce WWE Bad Blood in Atlanta". YouTube. Retrieved July 6, 2024.
Don't Miss WWE Bad Blood, Saturday Oct. 5 at 7 ET. 4 PT on Peacock in the U.S and WWE Network everywhere else.
- ^ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ^ "Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
- ^ Steinberg, Brian (May 25, 2016). "WWE's 'Smackdown' Will Move To Live Broadcast On USA (Exclusive)". Variety. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2016.