A couple of first-ever WWE premium live events were scheduled to take place in the year 2022, including the upcoming WWE Clash at the Castle (a reincarnated version of Clash of the Champions) and WWE Day 1. The Clash event will happen, next month while the latter event kicked things off for the year in January. Things will be repeated in the year 2023, as well.
The State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia has already started advertising that WWE Day 1 will return to Atlanta, Georgia for the second year in a row and it will take place on New Year’s Day 2023, that’s on January 1. From now, there’s a long way to go to this particular premium live event but WWE Universe can expect to have some firecrackers to begin the next year. It also suggests that the December event TLC would be scrapped.
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With the announcement, the WWE listings include the aforementioned Clash at the Castle in Cardiff, Wales, on Saturday, September 3, WWE Extreme Rules in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 8, WWE Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, November 5, and WWE Survivor Series in Boston on Saturday, November 26. The next PLE will be WWE Day 1 on the first day of January with no WWE Network Specials scheduled in December.
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The inaugural WWE Day 1 turned out to be a wild night. Heading into the pay-per-view, the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns (then the only Universal Champion) was reportedly diagnosed with COVID-19 and got pulled from his scheduled title defense against Brock Lesnar. WWE then had to come up with a backup plan and set up an impromptu WWE Championship multi-person match.
WWE added Brock Lesnar to the previously set fatal-4-way WWE Title match featuring then-champion Big E, Bobby Lashley, Seth Rollins, and Kevin Owens to make it a fatal-5-way. Being the favorite heading into the match, Lesnar would go on to defeat the other four superstars and become the WWE Champion for the fifth time in his career.
Liv Morgan got her first PPV Women’s Championship match against Becky Lynch while The Usos and The New Day also put up a classic for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles. WWE Hall of Famer Edge also competed against The Miz.
WWE Day 1 2022 PLE Match Card
WWE Day 1 kicked off 2022 in a big way to make way for Royal Rumble, later that month. At a glance, the results of the inaugural PPV night are given below,
– Sheamus and Ridge Holland defeated Cesaro and Ricochet [Kickoff Show]
– SmackDown Tag Team Championship Match: The Usos (c) defeated The New Day to retain the Titles
– Drew McIntyre defeated Madcap Moss
– RAW Tag Team Championship Match: RK-BRO (Randy Orton and Riddle) (c) defeated The Street Profits to retain the Titles
– Happy Corbin and Madcap Moss assaulted Drew McIntyre backstage
– Edge defeated The Miz (Beth Phoenix returned to stop Maryse from interfering)
– RAW Women’s Championship Match: Becky Lynch (c) defeated Liv Morgan to retain the Title
– WWE Championship Match: Brock Lesnar defeated Big E (c), Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens, and Bobby Lashley to win the Title