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The 2021 WrestleMania Backlash was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It was the 16th Backlash and took place on May 16, 2021, from the WWE ThunderDome, hosted at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida. The event aired via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming, marking the first Backlash to livestream on Peacock, and featured wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. It was 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. From 1999 to 2009, the concept of the Backlash pay-per-view was based around the backlash from WWE's flagship event, WrestleMania. The 2021 event returned Backlash to this original position as the post-WrestleMania pay-per-view, and it was in turn renamed to "WrestleMania Backlash" as it was based around the backlash from WrestleMania 37.