The Bash

The Great American Bash was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced in the summer in either the month of June or July by professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The 2009 edition was known as The Bash. The event was originally-produced in 1985 under National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions, and then by its successor, World Championship Wrestling (WCW). According to Ric Flair in his autobiography, To Be the Man, Dusty Rhodes invented the concept. The last event was held on June 11, 2000, not to be held again due to the acquisition of WCW by World Wrestling Federation (WWF). After a four-year hiatus, the event was revived by the rechristened WWE in June 2004 and would be exclusive to the SmackDown! brand from 2004 to 2006.In 2007, to follow the format of WrestleMania, WWE made all its pay per view events promotionwide, featuring matches with competitors from its three brands, Raw, SmackDown, and ECW. The 2009 event was rebranded as The Bash, as a way to distance the show from its past as part of WCW. The event was replaced in 2017 by WWE Money in the Bank.
==Chronology==
Season	Date 	City 	Venue 	Mainevent 	Mainevent
Season	Date 	City 	Venue 	RAW 	SmackDown
2013 	June 30	San Jose, CA 	HP Pavilion 	- 	-
2014 	June 29	Uniondale, NY 	Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum	- 	-
2015 	June 28	Sacramento, CA 	ARCO Arena 	- 	-
2016 	June 26	Washington, D.C.	Verizon Center 	Dean Ambrose (c) defeated Randy Orton in Last Man Standing match for WWE Championship	Kane (c) defetaed Sheamus in Inferno match for World Heavyweight Championship
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Category:PPV