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The 2017 Battleground was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It was the fifth annual Battleground and took place on July 23, 2017, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event aired via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and exclusively featured wrestlers from the promotion's SmackDown brand division. This was the final Battleground held until 2023, as Battleground was expected to return as a Raw event in 2018, but following WrestleMania 34 in April that year, brand-exclusive PPVs were discontinued, resulting in WWE reducing the amount of yearly PPVs produced. In 2023, the Battleground event was revived for WWE's developmental territory, NXT.