Extreme Rules (2012)

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The 2012 Extreme Rules was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It was the fourth annual Extreme Rules event and took place on April 29, 2012, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. The theme of the event was that it featured various hardcore-based matches. This edition was noteworthy as it included Brock Lesnar's first WWE in-ring match since WrestleMania XX in 2004. Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card and one pre-show match was livestreamed on YouTube. Only four of the main card's matches were contested under a hardcore stipulation. In the main event, John Cena defeated Brock Lesnar in an Extreme Rules match. Elsewhere on the card, CM Punk defeated Chris Jericho in a Chicago Street Fight to retain the WWE Championship and Sheamus defeated Daniel Bryan in a two out of three falls match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. The pay-per-view received universally positive reviews, with the...

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