SummerSlam is thrown by the WWE in arenas.
SummerSlam is a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event , produced annually in August by professional wrestling promotion WWE . SummerSlam (1992) . It took place on Saturday August 29 , 1992 , at Wembley Stadium , London , England , but did n't air on pay-per-view until Monday August 31 . SummerSlam ( 2016 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event and WWE Network event produced by WWE . It took place on August 21 , 2016 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn , New York .