The city of Cleveland just went through an extraordinary, yet busy weekend. Cleveland is no stranger to hosting big events. In the past 10 years the city has hosted the women’s basketball Final 4, The MLB and NBA all-star games, and the NFL draft, just to name a few. This weekend however, the city played host to the second biggest WWE event of the year, SummerSlam, as well as a full weekend of Cleveland Guardians games, multiple concerts, and not to mention the many side events that come with a WWE show like SummerSlam. Some of these events included a free press conference for fans to attend surrounding SummerSlam, Wrestlecon, WWE Smackdown, and multiple store locations with meet and greets scheduled. To say the least, the city of Cleveland was busy and as a Clevelander, I wanted to reflect on this week, how entertaining it was, and how proud I am to be from and living in such a great city.

The weekend kicked off early on Thursday as WWE opened doors on two superstore locations, one in Cleveland Browns Stadium as well as one in Tower City Center, with meet and greets with WWE Superstars happening not too far after the doors opened for these stores. It was genuinely heartwarming to see so many wrestling fans already in Cleveland two days before SummerSlam enjoying the city I grew up in and love. The activities set up for fans were unique and the amount of pro-Cleveland material I saw being handed out and posted around the city made me proud to be a Clevelander. This continued with the Press conference which was free to attend across the street from Rocket Mortgage Field House as large names not just in WWE but in all of sports such as Pat McAfee sang the praises of the city and its people for being such fantastic hosts. To hear this kind of rhetoric after all the bashing Cleveland typically gets was so refreshing and validating to Clevelanders who are so proud to be from the City.

Now, let’s get to the good stuff, the Wrestling and other events that took place this weekend WWE stacked the weekend for both SummerSlam and Smackdown. Smackdown had two title matches, and solid build-up for the following night’s WWE Championship and United States Championship matches. Summerslam was packed with great matches and star power. Cleveland’s own MGK interfered in the United States championship match to help fellow Cleveland native Logan Paul. Furthermore, country music artist Jellyroll performed at the start of Summerslam and even hit Austin Theory with a chair later in the show. The show finished with the return of Roman Reigns, to the excitement of everyone in the stadium including myself. I truly don’t think I saw a single person sitting when his music hit. The show was so good many Wrestling fans are even touting it as the best SummerSlam of all time on social media and I am proud to say it happened in Cleveland

I want to wrap this article up by saying this, in the last month I was personally going through writer’s block and was waiting for something that made me get back in the spirit of writing articles weekly as I was before and this weekend finally did it for me. I’m proud to be a Clevelander and to be a part of a city that has hosted so many great events despite the hate we get from people who aren’t from here and just don’t get us. It is Cleveland against the world forever, back to your regularly scheduled sports articles covering three of the best teams in sports right now, The Cleveland Browns, Guardians, and Cavaliers.