More Details on WWE’s New Year’s Day Pay-Per-View

WWE announced back in July that it plans on kicking off 2022 with the first New Year’s Day pay-per-view. The show’s name was confirmed on Tuesday as Day 1 and will take place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta. You can see the first local advertising for the event below.

WWE president Nick Khan spoke with Ariel Helwani for BT Sport this past weekend and explained why this new pay-per-view was being added (h/t Wrestling Inc.) —”We’re looking for any sports date, on the sports calendar, where a sporting event doesn’t exist. And I’ll give you an example of that. So, this coming New Year’s Eve, is a Friday night. Atlanta expects 300,000 to 400,000 people to go to Atlanta for New Years. And by the way, the two college football playoff games are also on that Friday, December 31st New Year’s Eve. My belief is that people who are going to Atlanta, they don’t wake up the Saturday morning after a long night out for New Years, and say ‘Okay, let’s go home.’ They want to do something on Saturday night.

“There was a moment in time where all the big college football games were on New Year’s Day. That’s changed,” Khan said. “They’re not all on New Year’s Day, as we know. The Saturday night, where the Rose Bowl is happening that night, but it’s not in one of the two college football games. So, we saw it as an open night. And our Atlanta folks, our partners at State Farm Arena, are excited for the event. We’re excited for the event. And we’re always going to look at that calendar to see what might work, [SummerSlam] being an example of that as well.”

Here’s what WWE‘s pay-per-view schedule for the rest of 2021 looks like:

• Extreme Rules — Sept. 26 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio
• Crown Jewel — Oct. 21 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Survivor Series — Nov. 21 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York
• PPV TBA — Dec. 12 at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois

Check out the full results from this past Saturday’s SummerSlam event below:

• (Kickoff) Big E def. Baron Corbin
• Raw Tag Team Championships: RKBro def. AJ Styles & Omos
• Alexa Bliss def. Eva Marie
• United States Championships: Damian Priest def. Sheamus
• Smackdown Tag Team Championships: The Usos def. The Mysterios
• SmackDown Women’s Championship: Becky Lynch def. Bianca Belair
• Drew McIntyre def. Jinder Mahal
• Raw Women’s Championship: Charlotte Flair def. Nikki A.S.H. and Rhea Ripley
• Edge def. Seth Rollins
• WWE Championship: Bobby Lashley def. Goldberg
• WWE Universal Championship: Roman Reigns def. John Cena