SummerSlam (2014)

The 2014 SummerSlam was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 27th annual SummerSlam and took place on August 17, 2014, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. This was the sixth and final consecutive SummerSlam event to take place at the arena. Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's main card and one match took place on the Kickoff pre-show. The main event saw Brock Lesnar defeat John Cena to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship for a fourth time and marked the final appearance of the Big Gold Belt, which had been used in tandem with the Big Scratch Logo belt since December 2013 to represent the WWE World Heavyweight Championship; on the following night's Raw, both belts were replaced with a singular belt, referred to as the Network Logo Belt. This was the first of six consecutive SummerSlams in which Lesnar competed in the main event match. In other prominent matches, Seth Rollins defeated Dean Ambrose in a lumberjack match, Stephanie McMahon defeated Brie Bella, and Roman Reigns defeated Randy Orton. This was the first SummerSlam to livestream on the WWE Network, which launched in February. The event had 147,000 pay-per-view buys (excluding WWE Network views), down from the previous year's 296,000 buys. It was also WWE's first PPV and livestreaming event to incorporate WWE's current logo but it would not be used on air and on the turnbuckle pads until the next night on Raw, including all championship belts being updated with the new logo.