Saturday Night's Main Event is a series of American professional wrestling television specials produced by WWE (originally the World Wrestling Federation or WWF). The series originally broadcast from 1985 to 1992, by NBC until 1991 then briefly by Fox. The specials were briefly revived on NBC from 2006 to 2008, and then again in 2024 to the present; the current iteration features performers from WWE's Raw and SmackDown brands.
The first iteration of the show replaced Saturday Night Live in its late night timeslot on an occasional basis throughout the year. At this time when weekly wrestling programs typically consisted primarily of squash matches featuring established stars dominating enhancement talent, Saturday Night's Main Event consisted almost entirely of star vs. star matches rarely seen on television, including title defenses and specialty matches. It coincided with and contributed to the apogee of the "second golden age" of professional wrestling in the United States; bolstered by regular in-ring appearances by WWF stars such as Hulk Hogan, Saturday Night's Main Event drew large audiences for much of its run, while a spin-off simply titled The Main Event aired annually on…
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WWE has officially scheduled its next Saturday Night’s Main Event for November 1 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, marking the first time a PLE-level event will be held in Utah.
As part of WWE’s new agreement with ESPN, ‘Saturday Night’s Main Event’ will now stream exclusively on Peacock, a strategic move following the early exit of Premium Live Events from the platform.
