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This is a list of WWE pay-per-view events, detailing all professional wrestling cards promoted on pay-per-view by WWE. WWE has broadcast pay-per-views since the 1980s, when its classic "Big Four" events (Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series) were first established. The company's PPV lineup expanded to a monthly basis in the mid-1990s, and reached its peak of sixteen shows a year in 2006 before returning to twelve in 2012. Pay-per-view shows are typically three hours in length, though budget priced events (e.g., In Your House) were shorter, and premium events such as WrestleMania can approach five hours. Since 2008, all WWE pay-per-views have been broadcast in high definition. Pay-per-view events are a significant part of the revenue stream for WWE. WWE pay-per-views are made available in the United States by In Demand, Dish Network, or DirecTV. In Canada, WWE pay-per-views are available through (depending on service provider) Viewers Choice, Vu!, Shaw PPV, or SaskTel PPV, and can be seen in movie theatres in HD through selected locations of the Cineplex Entertainment chain. In Australia, WWE's pay-per-views are shown on Main Event. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, some pay-per-views are shown on Sky Sports 1 & 3 and others on Sky Sports Box Office. In India and South Asia, a single broadcaster (currently TEN Sports) generally holds the rights to all WWE programming〔http://www.wwe.com/schedules/television/india〕 including pay-per-views, and they are broadcast for no additional charge.〔http://www.wwe.com/shows/howtowatch〕 Aside from its standard monthly schedule, WWE produced additional international pay-per-views between 1997 and 2003. These events were not available in the United States, and coincided with overseas tours in the United Kingdom. Following WWE's brand extension in 2002, the company promoted two touring rosters representing its ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown'' television programs. Aside from the Smackdown-only 2002 Rebellion show, all WWE pay-per-views featured both brands until June 2003. The traditional "Big Four" continued to showcase the entire roster, while the remaining pay-per-views alternated between ''Raw'' and ''Smackdown'' cards. A special ECW event in 2005 led to the creation of an ECW brand in 2006, which also received its own dedicated pay-per-view. Additional brand-exclusive events were added to the schedule, which reached its peak in 2006 with sixteen pay-per-view events (five ''Raw'', five ''Smackdown'', two ECW, and the original Big Four). In March 2007, WWE announced that all subsequent pay-per-views would feature performers from all brands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=December 1, 2007 )〕 Dates were slowly removed from the pay-per-view schedule, and in 2012, WWE returned to holding twelve pay-per-views a year. In 2009, WWE began to rename several of its "B"-show pay-per-views, identifying them with types of matches such as the Money in the Bank ladder match and the Hell in a Cell cage match. Since 2012, WWE has offered a free kickoff/pre-show before each pay-per-view, available on WWE.com and from social media partners such as YouTube and Facebook. The WWE Network, launched on February 24, 2014, features the entire back catalog of WWE pay-per-view events, as well as all future pay-per-views from WrestleMania XXX onwards. The Network also included The Big Event and Royal Rumble (1988) in their "Pay-Per-View" section. In recent years, WWE pay-per-views were mainly held in top-drawing arenas, such as the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri, the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, and Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ==Past pay-per-view events== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of WWE pay-per-view events」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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