Extreme Rules was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE and presented by WowWee's Paper Jamz, which took place on May 1, 2011 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. It was the third Extreme Rules event.This was also the first WWE pay-per-view event to be held in Tampa since Survivor Series in 2000.The event received 209,000 pay-per-view buys, up from last year's event of 182,000.