Extreme Rules (2019) is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brands. It will take place on July 14, 2019, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[1] It will be the eleventh event under the Extreme Rules chronology.

The show will include matches resulting from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brands,^[2][3] while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw, SmackDown Live,^[4] and the cruiserweight-exclusive 205 Live.^[5]

At Stomping Grounds, Becky Lynch retained the Raw Women's Championship against Lacey Evans, and later that night, Seth Rollins defended the Universal Championship against Baron Corbin with a special guest referee of Corbin's choice. Corbin chose Evans, who during the match changed the stipulation to being a no countout, no disqualification match. Evans eventually attacked Rollins, prompting Lynch to come to his aid, and Rollins retained his title against Corbin.^[6] The following night on Raw, Corbin and Evans brawled with Rollins and Lynch and challenged them to a mixed tag team match. Rollins and Lynch agreed as long as it would mean the end of their respective feuds. Corbin and Evans agreed as long as Rollins and Lynch each put their respective titles on the line. They agreed, and a last chance winner takes all mixed tag team match for both the Universal and Raw Women's championships was scheduled for Extreme Rules.^[7] An extreme rules stipulation was added the following week.^[8]

At Super ShowDown, Shane McMahon defeated Roman Reigns thanks to interference from Drew McIntyre.^[9] This lead to a match between Reigns and McIntyre at Stomping Grounds that Reigns won, despite Shane's multiple attempts to distract Reigns.^[6] On the following Raw, wild card guest Reigns faced Shane and McIntyre in a handicap match where they dominated Reigns. As Shane went to the top rope to perform a Coast-to-Coast on Reigns, the lights went out. The Undertaker appeared and attacked both Shane and McIntyre. A tag team match featuring Reigns and Undertaker against Shane and McIntyre was then scheduled for Extreme Rules.^[7]

On the June 24 episode of Raw, after WWE Champion Kofi Kingston had defeated both Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in consecutive singles matches (both Kingston and Owens appearing via the wild card rule), Kingston was randomly attacked by Samoa Joe, who performed an uranage on Kingston. As referees tended to the champion, Joe returned and applied the Coquina Clutch on Kingston.^[7] Kingston was subsequently scheduled to defend the WWE Championship against Joe at Extreme Rules. On the following SmackDown, Dolph Ziggler, who Kingston retained the title against at Stomping Grounds, faced Kingston in a two out of three falls match in which if Ziggler won, he would be added to the championship match at Extreme Rules, however, Ziggler was unsuccessful.^[10]

At Stomping Grounds, Bayley retained the SmackDown Women's Championship against Raw's Alexa Bliss.^[6] Nikki Cross, who was in Bliss' corner, felt it was her fault that Bliss lost as she tried attacking Bayley during the match.^[7] On the following SmackDown, wild card guest Cross was granted a match against Bayley in which if she won, Bliss would get a rematch. Cross subsequently defeated Bayley, thus earning Bliss a rematch for the title at Extreme Rules.^[10]

On the Stomping Grounds pre-show, Drew Gulak defeated former champion Tony Nese and Akira Tozawa in a triple threat match by pinning Tozawa to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.^[11] On the following episode of 205 Live, Nese defeated Tozawa to earn a rematch against Gulak at Extreme Rules.^[12]

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