WWE has set the lofty goal of booking the 2021 edition of SummerSlam to be as big as WrestleMania. It may even be a little bigger. The event is advertised to be held on August 21 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Raiders had a successful move to this Stadium which manifested during the 2020 NFL season. WWE is planning to book John Cena vs. Roman Reigns in the main event for the Universal championship. Reigns faced Cena at Night of Champions in 2017 in which he was put over and the torch was proverbially passed between the two stars – one generation off to Hollywood and another being crowned at the top of WWE.
This match was originally set to take place at SummerSlam 2017 on a much bigger stage. Now four years later Cena will get the opportunity to main event the second biggest (this year the company intends to make it the biggest) Pay-Per-View of the year with WWE’s current top star in Reigns. Cena’s filming schedule in 2017 would not allow him to wrestle at SummerSlam.
2021 is a great year for John considering he is now a more established Hollywood actor and has a little more freedom in his schedule. 2021 is a massive year of exposure for the former Franchise of WWE – Wipeout is currently airing on TBS, F9 is scheduled to come out in just a couple of weeks (in which he replaces The Rock’s character), the new Suicide Squad movie after that, and now a main event but at SummerSlam.
This will be the first time Cena has interacted with Roman since The Tribal Chief turned heel upon returning to the company at SummerSlam 2020 after a five-month hiatus to take care of his family. The only one I can remember possibly being bigger than this was the ’92 SummerSlam which featured a familial showdown between two brothers in law when Bret Hart took on The British Bulldog (Davey Boy Smith).