WWE 2021 87 2021-05-16 2021-05-16 https://r2.thesportsdb.com/images/media/event/thumb/ujbme61620746219.jpg WrestleMania Backlash is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. It is scheduled to take place on May 16, 2021 and will be broadcast from the WWE ThunderDome, hosted at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida. It will be the 16th event in the Backlash chronology and will be WWE's first pay-per-view to present the ThunderDome from the Yuengling Center during the COVID-19 pandemic, following a four-month residency at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The 2021 event returns Backlash to its original position as the post-WrestleMania PPV, as the event was known for from 1999 to 2009. It was in turn renamed to "WrestleMania Backlash." 1133224