Rocket Arena (originally Gund Arena, Quicken Loans Arena and Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse), is a multi-purpose arena, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
Until August 2005, it was known as Gund Arena, named for Gordon Gund, a former owner of the Cavaliers, after he paid for the naming rights.
It is currently home to the Cleveland Cavaliers, of the NBA, the Cleveland Monsters, of the AHL, the Cleveland Gladeiators, of the AFL and the Mid-American Conference Basketball Tournaments.
It also hosted a portion of the first and second rounds of the 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
Notable events[]
The arena has been the site of WWF SummerSlam 1996, WWF No Mercy 1999, WWF InVasion, WWE Survivor Series 2004, several episodes of Raw, Friday Night SmackDown!, ECW on Sci Fi, and NXT. It also hosted WWE Unforgiven 2008. It also hosted the March 26, 2001 edition of WWF Raw, when Vince McMahon purchased his rival Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling promotion.
Events[]
- SummerSlam - August 18, 1996
- RAW - March 2, 1998
- RAW - June 29, 1998
- Shotgun Saturday Night - July 4, 1998
- RAW - March 1, 1999
- Super Astros - March 14, 1999
- RAW - July 26, 1999
- Shotgun Saturday Night - July 31, 1999
- No Mercy - October 17, 1999
- RAW - May 15, 2000
- Jakked - May 20, 2000
- SmackDown - October 19, 2000
- Heat - October 22, 2000
- RAW - March 26, 2001
- Jakked - March 21, 2001
- Heat - July 22, 2001
- InVasion - July 22, 2001
- SmackDown - March 14, 2002
- RAW - June 24, 2002
- Heat - June 30, 2002
- RAW - March 10, 2003
- Heat - March 16. 2003
- RAW - November 3, 2003
- Heat - November 9, 2003
- SmackDown - February 5, 2004
- Velocity - February 7, 2004
- Heat- November 14, 2004
- Survivor Series - November 14, 2004
- SmackDown -February 17, 2005
- Velocity - February 19, 2005
- RAW - July 25, 2005
- Heat - July 31, 2005
- RAW -November 28, 2005
- Heat - December 2, 2005
- RAW - July 24, 2006
- Heat - July 28, 2006
- ECW - March 20, 2007
- SmackDown - March 23, 2007
- RAW - October 1, 2007
- Heat - October 5, 2007
- ECW - March 4, 2008
- SmackDown - March 7, 2008
- Unforgiven - September 7, 2008
- ECW - September 1, 2009
- Superstars - September 3, 2009
- SmackDown - September 4, 2009
- NXT - May 25. 2010
- Superstars - May 27, 2010
- SmackDown - May 28, 2010
- NXT - March 1, 2011
- Superstars - March 3, 2011
- SmackDown - March 4, 2011
- RAW - September 19, 2011
- Superstars - September 22, 2011
- RAW - March 12, 2012
- Main Event November 14, 2012
- SmackDown - November 16, 2012
- Saturday Morning Slam - December 15, 2012
- RAW - September 16, 2013
- Superstars - September 20, 2013
- RAW - January 27, 2014
- Superstars - January 31, 2014
- RAW - June 16, 2014
- Superstars - June 20, 2014
- TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs - December 14, 2014
- RAW - June 15, 2015
- Superstars - June 18, 2015
- WWE Live - September 26, 2015
- Fastlane - February 21, 2016
- Main Event - September 27, 2016
- SmackDown - September 27, 2016
- RAW - January 23, 2017
- Main Event - January 24, 2017
- SmackDown - August 1, 2017
- 205 Live - August 1, 2017
- RAW - December 11, 2017
- Main Event - December 13, 2017
- RAW - March 26, 2018
- Main Event - March 28, 2018
- Fastlane - March 10, 2019
- RAW - October 21, 2019
- Main Event - October 23, 2019
- SmackDown - July 23, 2021
- RAW - March 7, 2022
- Main Event - March 10, 2022
- RAW - August 8, 2022
- Main Event - August 11, 2022
- Raw - June 19, 2023
- Main Event - June 22, 2023
- AEW Collision - September 9, 2023
- Ring of Honor Wrestling - September 14, 2023
- RAW - December 11, 2023
- Main Event - December 14, 2023
- SmackDown - August 2, 2024
- Speed - August 7, 2024
- Speed - August 14, 2024
- RAW - February 3, 2025
- Main Event - February 6, 2025
- SmackDown - July 25, 2025
