The Beast in the East was a professional wrestling live event produced by the American promotion WWE.

The main event saw John Cena and Dolph Ziggler defeat Kane and King Barrett.

The American professional wrestling promotion WWE originally scheduled a house show event to be held on July 4, 2015, at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan.

[5] To date, the show is the only time in WWE's history that an event was broadcast live from Japan.

[7][8] Storylines played out on WWE's primary television programs, Raw, SmackDown and NXT.

On May 28, 2015, it was revealed that Brock Lesnar was scheduled to appear at the July 4 live event in Japan.

Lesnar reportedly requested a spot on the show so he and Brad Rheingans could go to Tokyo to visit Masa Saito, who was in bad health.

[14] However, Bálor earned another title shot at NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable in May when he beat Tyler Breeze.

The main event was WWE United States Champion John Cena and Dolph Ziggler facing Kane and King Barrett.

[20] 411Mania.com's Larry Csonka praised the look of the show, saying it was far away from "the usual and sanitized WWE TV event".

[22] Owens later requested for the stipulation of a ladder match, saying that he did not want to suffer NXT General Manager William Regal costing him the title in a situation alike the Montreal Screwjob.