WWE Stomping Grounds (2019)

Interesting facts

Stomping Grounds was a 2019 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live. The event took place on June 23, 2019, at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. It replaced an originally planned Backlash that was scheduled for June 16 in San Diego, California with that date and location repurposed as a non-televised house show. This would be the only Stomping Grounds as Backlash was reinstated in 2020.

Production

WWE had originally scheduled to hold its established professional wrestling event, Backlash, on June 16, 2019, at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego, California, which would have been the 15th Backlash event. On April 29, however, it was announced that due to Super ShowDown occurring only nine days before on June 7, Backlash was canceled with its date and location repurposed as a non-televised house show, while a new pay-per-view (PPV) and livestrea…

The event comprised nine matches, including one on the Kickoff pre-show, that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brands, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw, SmackDown Live, and the cruiserweight-exclusive 205 Live.

During Seth Rollins's Universal Championship defense against Baron Corbin at Super ShowDown, Corbin got into an argument with referee John Cone, allowing Rollins to roll-up Corbin to retain the title. After the match, Corbin attacked Rollins with the "End of Days" and a title rematch was scheduled for Stomping Grounds.

At Money in the Bank, Bayley won the women's Money in the Bank ladder match and later that night cashed in the contract on Charlotte Flair to win the SmackDown Women's Championship. On the June 4 episode of SmackDown, Flair competed in a triple threat match against Carmella and Raw's Alexa Bliss, who appeared via the wild card rule, in order to earn a rematch against Bayley for the title at Stomping Grounds.

At WrestleMania 35, Roman Reigns defeated Drew McIntyre. Reigns was then drafted to SmackDown in the Superstar Shake-up, while McIntyre joined forces with Shane McMahon, but lost another match to Reigns by disqualification when Reigns appeared on the May 6 episode of Raw via the wild card rule. At Super ShowDown, Shane defeated Reigns thanks to a Claymore from McIntyre while the referee was incapacitated.

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