WWE Get Millions In Pandemic Relief Funds For SummerSlam

SummerSlam is heading to MetLife Stadium in 2025 and it seems pandemic relief money has been used to lure WWE to New Jersey.

For the first time ever, WWE will host SummerSlam across two nights in 2025. On August 2nd and 3rd, The Biggest Party of the Summer will take place in MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The move was made official by Cardi B in a video that saw her calling Bianca Belair to tell her the news.

WWE moved to having a two-night WrestleMania in 2020 due to the pandemic but the change stuck and it seems it will now be the same with SummerSlam moving forward as Triple H confirmed 2026’s SummerSlam will be a two-night affair as well.

Now it’s been revealed just what is being spent to get WWE to bring 2025’s biggest party of the summer to MetLife Stadium.

Over $7 Million Spent On WWE SummerSlam

Katie Sobko of North Jersey has reported that the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has allocated a whopping $7.125 million to be used to assist in securing and hosting the two-night SummerSlam.

The money is part of the federal government’s American Rescue Plan given to the state during the pandemic. The money is to be used to “respond to the negative economic impacts of the public health emergency by providing aid to impacted industries such as tourism, travel and hospitality.”

The authority believes that SummerSlam will “generate over $80 million in total economic impact for the region” meaning a significant return on investment for the area.

TKO previously received some of New Jersey’s pandemic relief funds as $3.5 million was spent to host UFC 288 in Newark in 2023. NJSEA was awarded $6.24 billion in government relief funds in May 2021 and all of that money must be allocated by the end of 2024 and spent by the end of 2026.

MetLife Stadium will be the host for the FIFA men’s World Cup Final in 2026 as the biggest soccer tournament in the world takes place across North America.