Photos: WWE's Takeover of Cleveland Started With Friday Night Smackdown at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

Professional wrestling has taken over downtown Cleveland this weekend with WWE’s second-largest premium live event SummerSlam at Cleveland Browns Stadium being the centerpiece on Saturday Night. To kick off the weekend, WWE hosted Friday Night Smackdown at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

The night was action-packed, including the main event involving Cleveland’s own Johnny Gargano and his tag team partner Tommaso Ciampa vs. The Bloodline for the Tag Team Championships. The match was a thriller with ups and downs throughout, but Johnny and Tommaso came up short and lost to the Bloodline to crown new champions. To start the show there was a faceoff between Solo Sikoa and WWE Undisputed Champion Cody Rhodes before the two square up at the main event at Cleveland Brown Stadium Saturday night. They exchanged words and got into each other’s faces before backing away. They did make a stipulation of Bloodline rules for the match at Summerslam. You are probably asking yourself – What are bloodline rules? Well, anything goes basically, there are no rules.

Next up was Andrade beating Carmelo Hayes, Santos Escobar beating Apollo Crews, and The Unholy Union kept their Women’s Tag Team Championships against Jade Cargill and Bianca Belair following a disqualification in the match after Blair Davenport got involved. Cleveland native Logan Paul threw himself a homecoming celebration interrupted by LA Knight, his opponent at Summerslam for the United States Championship.

To conclude the night there were two dark main events for the crowd. Braun Strowman Vs. Chad Gable and The Judgement Day Vs. Cleveland’s own The Miz, and his partners R-Truth, Rey Mysterio, and Jey Uso.

Overall, it was a good kickoff to the Summerslam weekend in Cleveland with Yeeting and Yeah chants going around.

WWE SummerSlam takes place live from Cleveland Browns Stadium on Saturday at 7:00 PM ET – Tickets are still available on Ticketmaster.com.