Extreme Rules (2022)

The 2022 Extreme Rules was a professional wrestlingpremium live event (PLE) produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown. It was the 14th annual and final Extreme Rules event and took place on October 8, 2022, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The theme of the event was that it featured various hardcore-based matches.

Six matches were contested at the event, all of which contained a hardcore stipulation. In the main event, Matt Riddle defeated Seth "Freakin" Rollins by submission in a Fight Pit match in which Daniel Cormier served as the special guest referee. In other prominent matches, Finn Bálor defeated Edge in an "I Quit" match, Ronda Rousey defeated Liv Morgan by technical submission in an Extreme Rules match to win the SmackDown Women's Championship for a second time, and in the opening bout, The Brawling Brutes (Sheamus, Ridge Holland, and Butch) defeated Imperium (Gunther, Ludwig Kaiser, and Giovanni Vinci) in a six-man tag teamGood Old Fashioned Donnybrook match. The event also saw the return of Bray Wyatt, who had been released from his WWE contract in July 2021.

This was the only Extreme Rules event to be held in October and on a Saturday, as well as the second Extreme Rules event to take place at the Wells Fargo Center, after the 2019 event. This was subsequently the only Extreme Rules event to livestream on Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia following the shutdown of its version of the WWE Network in late January, as well as the only Extreme Rules event to be branded as a "premium live event", a term the company introduced at the start of the year to refer to its events airing on traditional pay-per-view and via WWE's livestreaming platforms. Extreme Rules was discontinued in an effort to reduce some of the gimmick events so that the namesake matches could return to being the culmination of big feuds instead of something that has to be done each year because of the event, with the October 2023 slot given to a reinstated Fastlane.

The event received generally positive reviews from critics, who gave high praise to the six-man Donnybrook match and the "I Quit" match, the latter for its dark tone and ending, but felt the SmackDown Women's Championship match was the weakest of the night. They also felt that the main event's stipulation was not utilized enough. The return of Wyatt was acclaimed for its mystery, buildup, and execution. Critics also praised the variety of stipulation matches, unlike the previous year's event, which only had one hardcore-based match.