In 2020, Fastlane was removed from the schedule to allow WWE to hold that year's Super ShowDown PPV however, Fastlane was reinstated in 2021. The 2018 event was then made a SmackDown-exclusive PPV, but this would be the final SmackDown-exclusive PPV, as well as WWE's final brand-exclusive PPV, as following WrestleMania 34 that year, brand-exclusive PPVs were discontinued. The 2017 event was also held as a Raw-exclusive show, following the reintroduction of the WWE brand extension in mid-2016 where the promotion again split its roster into brands where wrestlers exclusively perform. In 2017, Fastlane was pushed back to March, with Elimination Chamber returning to its original February slot, which made Fastlane the first non-WrestleMania PPV to be held in March. The event returned in 2016, also in February, thus establishing Fastlane as an annual PPV for the promotion. The name "Fastlane" was chosen as a reference to its position on the "Road to WrestleMania", being held in the two-month period between the Royal Rumble and WWE's flagship event. For the 2015 calendar year, it replaced Elimination Chamber, which had been held in February from 2010 to 20 Elimination Chamber was in turn held in May. WWE first held Fastlane on February 22, 2015, in Memphis, Tennessee, and it was broadcast live on pay-per-view (PPV) and the WWE Network.
This would be the final Fastlane event, as it was again discontinued. The event was produced annually until 2020 when Fastlane was removed from the schedule to allow WWE to hold that year's Super ShowDown PPV however, Fastlane was reinstated in 2021. With the reintroduction of the brand extension, Fastlane was Raw-exclusive in 2017 and SmackDown-exclusive in 2018 before WWE discontinued brand-exclusive PPVs following WrestleMania 34 that year.
The name of the event was a reference to its position on the "Road to WrestleMania", being held in the two-month period between the Royal Rumble and WWE's flagship event.īeginning in 2017, the event moved to March, which made it WWE's first non-WrestleMania PPV to be held in March. The event was established in 2015 and replaced Elimination Chamber in the February slot of WWE's pay-per-view calendar Elimination Chamber was pushed back to May that year. It was broadcast live and available only through pay-per-view (PPV) and the online streaming services Peacock and the WWE Network.
#Fastlane 2021 professional#
No matter how the weekly Raw and SmackDown shows – particularly the former – seem to go, one thing WWE fans can count on is a quality pay-per-view.WWE Fastlane was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. What can you expect from WWE Fastlane 2021?
Of course, there will be a Kickoff show available on the WWE Network, WWE.com, the WWE app, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Twitch at 10pm.įor fans in the UK, you can tune into the main Fastlane show by either streaming live or watching on demand via the WWE Network – or order the event via BT Sport Box Office.Īs an aside, for the United States this will mark the first pay-per-view on Peacock after the WWE Network was essentially shut down in the US and moved over to the streaming platform.
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