Stomping Grounds 2019

Stomping Grounds 2019 is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw and SmackDown brands. It will take place on June 23, 2019 at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington.

Storylines
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 and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live.

At Money in the Bank, Bayley won the women's Money in the Bank ladder match and later that night cashed in the contract on Charlotte Flair to win the SmackDown Women's Championship. On the June 4 episode of SmackDown, Flair competed in a triple threat match against Carmella and Raw's Alexa Bliss, who appeared via the wild card rule, in order to earn a rematch against Bayley for the title at Stomping Grounds. Bliss, however, won the match, thus Bliss earned the title match.

At WrestleMania 35, Roman Reigns defeated Drew McIntyre. Reigns was then drafted to SmackDown in the Superstar Shake-up, while McIntyre joined forces with Shane McMahon, but lost another match to Reigns by disqualification when Reigns appeared on the May 6 episode of Raw via the wild card rule. At Super Show-Down, Shane defeated Reigns thanks to a Claymore from McIntyre while the referee was incapacitated. Afterwards, another match between Reigns and McIntyre was scheduled for Stomping Grounds.

At Money in the Bank, Becky Lynch defended both the Raw and SmackDown Women's Championships. She retained the Raw Women's Championship against Lacey Evans, who in turn caused Lynch to lose the SmackDown Women's Championship to Charlotte Flair. After more feuding on Raw, another match between the two for the Raw Women's Championship was scheduled for Stomping Grounds.

At Super ShowDown, Seth Rollins retained the Universal Championship against Baron Corbin after Corbin got into an argument with the referee, allowing Rollins to roll-up the distracted Corbin for the win. Afterwards, a title rematch was scheduled for Stomping Grounds.

At Super ShowDown, Kofi Kingston defeated Dolph Ziggler to retain the WWE Championship thanks to interference from fellow New Day member Xavier Woods. Following the match, an irate Ziggler claimed he would have beaten Kingston had it not been for Woods and then challenged Kingston to a steel cage match for the title at Stomping Grounds and Kingston accepted.

Matches

 * Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
 * (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.


 * Bayley (c) vs. Alexa Bliss for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship


 * Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre


 * Becky Lynch (c) vs. Lacey Evans for the WWE Raw Women's Championship


 * Seth Rollins (c) vs. Baron Corbin for the WWE Universal Championship


 * Kofi Kingston (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler in a Steel cage match for the WWE Championship

DVD release

 * Amazon.jpg [ Stomping Grounds 2019 on DVD]