WWE SmackDown coming to Rolling Loud music festival

The Friday, July 23 episode of SmackDown will be taking place from two different locations.

WWE and the Rolling Loud music festival have announced a new partnership that will bring SmackDown to Rolling Loud Miami on July 23. The SmackDown episode “will feature a split-site broadcast with multiple matches at Rolling Loud Miami, and the remainder of the evening held at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland.” It was announced this May that the episode would be taking place in Cleveland.

Advertising notes that there will be two matches at Rolling Loud.

WWE touted that this is the first-ever collaboration between WWE and a major music festival. Rolling Loud is “the world’s premier rap festival.” Rolling Loud Miami is being held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida over three days and is being headlined by A$AP Rocky, Travis Scott, and Post Malone.

“What Matt Zingler, Tariq Cherif and the entire Rolling Loud team have built is spectacular,” said Scott Zanghellini, WWE Senior Vice President, Revenue Strategy & Development. “We couldn’t think of a better partner to deliver such a unique WWE experience to fans during the July 23 edition of Friday Night SmackDown on FOX.”

“I grew up on Sweet Chin Music, mesmerized by the spectacle that Vince McMahon and co have built at WWE,” said Tariq Cherif, Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Rolling Loud. “The idea of weaving our two storylines into one world, one must see event, is electrifying.”

“And I quote! If ya smell…what the WWE and Rolling Loud…is…cookin’! Give me a hell yeah!,” said Rolling Loud Co-Founder/Co-CEO, Matt Zingler.

WWE stated that more announcements about the Rolling Loud and WWE/Friday Night SmackDown partnership will be made leading up to the festival.

The July 23 SmackDown will be the second episode of the show in WWE’s return to touring. WWE is back on the road starting with the Friday, July 16 edition of SmackDown at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.